thruthetrees
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- May 9, 2011
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I am starting to breed rats for feeders... Instead of getting generic LPS rats for it I am getting some fancy ones. Well, I finally located a beige rat and was really excited to get him home. He is a little bigger than one litter here so I put him in with them. He was obviously not old enough to be weened... I intend to raise him as a pet and handle him, etc. I don't like raising feeders that I like to keep as pets, but I really have no choice right now and am square with it.
Onward...
2 days after brining "Rolo" home I heard painful screaming. I knew something terrible was happening in the cage. I quickly ran over and see the Rolo hanging from a platform from his leg. No idea how he got stuck that way (I took that platform out--even if it was a freak accident). He fell down himself before I had a chance to help him. He seemed ok initially aside from his "pride" being a bit badgered... I had a quick look at him and put him away. The next day he was dragging his whole leg around... I have a video of him walking on the cage I'm building ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/thruthetrees/7342271184/in/photostream ).
I put the cast on thinking it was his leg/hock/elbow, where most of the heat and swelling was felt. It's a small freakin' critter... not as easy as a horse leg to locate the problem! I thought with the cast on he would be able to move the leg a bit... but that didn't work at all. I felt around more on his leg and figured out it is his pelvis/hip
I don't know if it's broken or fractured... If it was a sprain, I would think he could move it a little but he can't move the leg the way the hip functions--by lifting the leg up and then forward--that's what he cannot do. Dislocation?
I don't have the money to take him to the vet or I would. I let him lick a bit of an oxycodone for pain and some probiotic/stress stuff but I am not sure what else I should do. He seems to be feeling okay for now, not sickly or anything.
Think he's young enough that he'll be OK? I put him alone in a small KK w/a ton of bedding so he could be kinda weightless overnight. I don't care if he limps or drags the leg for life--I just don't want him to live in pain (no prob putting him down if he needs it). If anyone *knows* about this, please help!
It might just be a feeder to some of you, but I treat my breeders of feeders with as much love as I can.
Please keep the niggardly & negative comments to yourself... or PM the meanness to someone else if you must.
And, thank you -all- for looking in advance
Onward...
2 days after brining "Rolo" home I heard painful screaming. I knew something terrible was happening in the cage. I quickly ran over and see the Rolo hanging from a platform from his leg. No idea how he got stuck that way (I took that platform out--even if it was a freak accident). He fell down himself before I had a chance to help him. He seemed ok initially aside from his "pride" being a bit badgered... I had a quick look at him and put him away. The next day he was dragging his whole leg around... I have a video of him walking on the cage I'm building ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/thruthetrees/7342271184/in/photostream ).
I put the cast on thinking it was his leg/hock/elbow, where most of the heat and swelling was felt. It's a small freakin' critter... not as easy as a horse leg to locate the problem! I thought with the cast on he would be able to move the leg a bit... but that didn't work at all. I felt around more on his leg and figured out it is his pelvis/hip
I don't know if it's broken or fractured... If it was a sprain, I would think he could move it a little but he can't move the leg the way the hip functions--by lifting the leg up and then forward--that's what he cannot do. Dislocation?I don't have the money to take him to the vet or I would. I let him lick a bit of an oxycodone for pain and some probiotic/stress stuff but I am not sure what else I should do. He seems to be feeling okay for now, not sickly or anything.
Think he's young enough that he'll be OK? I put him alone in a small KK w/a ton of bedding so he could be kinda weightless overnight. I don't care if he limps or drags the leg for life--I just don't want him to live in pain (no prob putting him down if he needs it). If anyone *knows* about this, please help!
It might just be a feeder to some of you, but I treat my breeders of feeders with as much love as I can.
Please keep the niggardly & negative comments to yourself... or PM the meanness to someone else if you must.
And, thank you -all- for looking in advance