All good rats go to heaven..

This part of the blog will (increasingly) be dedicated to our much missed babies who have died.


Mavis


Mavis running/waddling

Mavis was a lovely rat, although red-eyed.. :O
She got fatter and fatter and had the widest butt ever seen on a rat, but then had some kind of accident with her tail and lost tons of weight.
She developed some kind of brain problems, possibly due to loss of balance from her damaged tail, and falling. I hand-fed her for 2 months before she died, she died in my arms.


Badger


Badger face


Badger eating malteaser


My beautiful baby Badger. She was the cleverist rat I've known, she learned her name in days and knew many tricks. She was sister to, and lived with, Mavis.
Badger died 2 weeks after Mavis, although she seemed perfectly well. I found her with her head in her lap, an unusual position for a rat, and blood coming from her eyes and mouth (not nice)
When she seemed in pain, I took her to the vets to be put down. She was smiling at me to the end.

Badger's relatives:
Mavis, Snoop, De Niro, Pacino

Badger's parents:
Stuart, Chloe


[31.08.2005]
Cheena

The first of the 'new' batch of rats to die. Unfortunately she died before I could get a picture of her, but she looked very much like Badger (above) - she died quietly after being quite ill looking for a month or so. By this, I mean that she had lost a lot of weight, and was not eating properly. The day before she died I saw blood in her eye, which is never a good sign.
She was named because she looked like Pachino, who was brother to Badger and Mavis.

Cheena's relatives:
Skittles, Snowy, Mary, Dot & Ethel (Girls)
Henry, Eric, Vinnie, Boris, Badger, Beaver, Marshall & Xzibit (Boys)