Help hairless rat babies! Don't know what to do!!!

[Barbedwirecat]

They are gone *sniffle*

I have another site I post on and I was told I needed to eauthanize them, regaurdless of how well I take care of them they will die for lack of rat collostrum.

I thought they would live, but I was stuck between them suffering and dying anyway and eauthanizing them, I ended up putting the last one back with the mom, and I checked on it at 5am, and it was dead. I did not make the choice for it, is think i just prolonged their death a few days anyway, if I hadn't lifted the burrow area and saw them I know they would have died the first night.

Thank you guys, the next time anything like this happens I'm not going to listen to some *bad word* person. I'm going to listen to myself. Its horrible because when I first started feeding them all the resonse I got from Ratterys I e-mailed were negative. All the response I got from rat boards and people who knew rattery people all told me to eauthanize.

Now I'm receiving e-mails from the ratteries that didn't catch my mail in time saying that they have succesfully raised the babies. Alot of people are saying that they had a chance. *cry* I can't do anything now but deal with it.

 

[cacoseraph]

i'm sorry to hear that. i was following this thread hoping the little things would pull through.

i can't hang with cute and fuzzy (er, well, not so fuzzy in this case) things dying.... thus the arthropod collection only

dang, i was trying to think of something funny to cheer you up, but i got nothing. i'll get back to you on it

p.s. i like your quotes. i am a big tolkien fan and secretly worship asimov

 

[pinkzebra]

So sorry to hear that they didn't make it You did what you could and that's what matters.

Jen

 

[bugmankeith]

Sorry to hear that, but at least you have some sites posted to help if you somehow got baby hairless rats again.

Do research now and mabye in the future things will go better. At least you tried thats the important thing.