Rats!

I can't be the only one who has done this!

Science is sitting here brusking contently behind me

From earlier today

I thought Science would outlive Bill so I'd already asked in my Fugly Rats Facebook group about my options for a lone rat. So If Science seems depressed on his own I'm going to borrow a female rat and have Science neutered. He can then live out the rest of his life with a girlfriend. When he passes away I'll give the lady rat back and this will probably turn into an aggregate blog for ratties.

Bill just passed away in my lap. We'd been to the vet today for more anti-biotics but he was feeling colder than he should when I got back from the gym and I knew it was the end :( So I just let him chill on my lap. Wouldn't have made it to the emergency vet in time to have him PTS, but it seemed like he went out peacefully.

Good rat! He got a cheese reward for being so tolerant :)

Then it explodes pus everywhere... Oh it was an abscess. Relived but also gross. Science was so well behaved. I don't think many rats would tolerate being pinned on their back with their head held back while I poked them in an open neck wound with a q-tip. Wound all cleaned out now and flushed out with hibiscrub. I've put him on bayrtril I had left over to help avoid infection as well.

Usually I would not feed a rat something like this as the fish in it almost certainly contains soy but Ted will have to be PTS soon so I might as well spoil him.

Ted is so skinny now. He's not got much longer left :(

My boy Maths suddenly and unexpectedly deteriorated neurologically over the weekend and had to be PTS today :( Here he is at the vet, he couldn't stand and it was like holding fluffy putty :( Below is an older picture.