Training and Care

!!! Mazuri and LabDiet Food Recall !!! A common store bought food (available at places such as Petsmart) is the Mazuri Rat & Mouse Diet. While not considered a high quality food by many rat enthusiast, it is considered one of the better pet-store chain brands available (which isn't saying much!). Its protein levels are [...]

Male Rats and The No OJ Rule There is much controversy surrounding OJ and male rats. Can you give them orange juice? Is it really that bad for them? Why only males? What can happen? This blog article is to help answer any questions and resolve any confusion on the topic. Why is orange juice [...]

Bathing Your Pet Rat A clean rat is a healthy rat. They not only groom themselves, but often their cage mates as well. However some rats are not as fastidious about grooming and will often need some assistance. Some more specific reasons to bathe your rat would be those that are too overweight, injured, ill [...]

Environmental Enrichment for Your Rats While it may not be a new series of studies, these that I stumbled across recently have definitely sparked my interest! The studies all had the same main focus- to show that changes in an animal’s environment, and the ways in which that animal reacts to those changes, can have [...]

Green Mush- Safe or Unsafe? One of the more recent scares for our precious ratties, has been in regards to HealthForce Nutritionals' Green Mush. For those of you who are not familiar with Green Mush, it is is a pesticide free, whole food, green plant based combination used as a high quality, powerful antioxidant and [...]

Litter vs Liners Debate Today, while answering emails from readers, I came across one that I have seen come up quite a bit on the forums I am a member of and thought I would share. Erin of New Orleans writes: Hey there! We are adopting some fur friends this weekend and I've been using [...]

Q & A- Treating Lice on Baby Rats Crystal Lynn wrote me: Hoping you can help because I'm seriously at a loss. I'm going to tell you my issue and please just ask questions if I don't detail enough....so here is the issue, I know I need to get rid of the bedding I made [...]