Caring for a rat with a head tilt

My precious girl, Saoirse, now has a head tilt from her ear infection....this means she will not be able to live like a normal rat.

Since her sense balance is completely gone...she cannot walk without sliding/falling/rolling....so she must be supervised in an area without anything to climb on or she will fall off and injure herself. Her new home is now a giant plastic storage tub with windows cut out for air. She cannot be in a cage because she will try and climb the bars and fall. She gets visits from the other rats and I'll let some stay with her in the tub.

The fact that she cannot walk straight does not stop this girl, though. She still roughly shoves things out of her way, burrows into blankets, shoves my hand away if she wants to get past and loves to get out and explore. ]

I love this girl so much. She'll be a grandma for the second time this weekend!

Rat News

Ophelia should be due on or around the 17th of June. She's getting pretty large now.

I will be breeding Lenore and Laertes (Both dumbo Siamese), on the 13th...in two days! They will probably be petite rats as both parents are pretty tiny for their age.

The waiting list is filling up nicely.  I'm excited!

More rat happenings: Victor escaped and was in the porch the entire day. He stole the dog food, cat food, and hid them in his cage.

Saoirse's ear infection appears to be clearing up. I thought she was gone for sure last Tuesday. She still may not recover, but she's on the road to getting better, so here's to hoping! She's my special girl and I don't want to lose her earlier than I can.

I sold my My Little Pony plushie for $130 this morning. I am putting this towards the girl's Critter Nation cage. I will be making and selling more plushies so I can hopefully convert both cages into triples. 

Rat Mansion

The new cage is here! I ran to the door very excitedly when the UPS man showed up. The poor guy...

Showing!

I think Ophelia is starting to show! There's at least a week and a half left. She is very healthy, receiving lots of healthy food and protein enriched mixtures.

Rarity needs a home

Still no bids on my plushie *major weeping*

She needs a good home!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/My-Little-Pony-Friendship-is-Magic-12-in-Rarity-plush-and-extras-/150826087262?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231def735e

Not my week..

One of my babies passed away due to a constipation issue and then went I put him on a safe block diet...he starved himself. Yeah...rats hate block...

Then my special boy, Zoc, suddenly died.

Now today I took Saoirse to the vet to treat her ear infection....

Oh, and my laptop broke.

Yay me.

Rat food sounds GOOD

I was browsing rat treats to make and came across these ideas: Yummy!

And man...is my stomach growling now! I may have to sample these before giving them to my rats....