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02-20-2016, 12:43 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Posts: 288
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Re: When to say goodbye? :(
Hi I've just read your post and tried to catch up with all the info.
I haven't had a lot of experience with rats but we had 2 at animal care that started to lose the ability to use their back legs. We took them to the vets and they said they would be fine as long as they were eating, drinking and not struggling. I hope this comforts you a little. It sounds like you are doing everything you can for her
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02-21-2016, 02:27 AM
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#12
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: uk
Posts: 801
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Re: When to say goodbye? :(
Ah, this is such a difficult choice to have to make! Hasn't she got a lovely sweet gentle face bless her. If she's still eating and drinking she wants to live and its not quite time, although I had willow pts when she was still eating a very little mashed food as she had lost all quality of life and was struggling too much. I think your rattie would probably be very happy in a retirement cage on her own, I know how social they are but its not fun getting scratched and bullied when you're feeling weak and old. I think if you give her her own space she will probably snooze more and perhaps be more relaxed. She won't need anywhere big., my first hamster cage was a marchioro Rene which is a fairly small rat cage which the owners bought to house an elderly rat. Good luck sorting her out, she is a little poppet and I'm glad you're her owner as you care so much about her x
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02-21-2016, 01:13 PM
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#13
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Posts: 845
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Re: When to say goodbye? :(
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Originally Posted by herbi7
Ah, this is such a difficult choice to have to make! Hasn't she got a lovely sweet gentle face bless her. If she's still eating and drinking she wants to live and its not quite time, although I had willow pts when she was still eating a very little mashed food as she had lost all quality of life and was struggling too much. I think your rattie would probably be very happy in a retirement cage on her own, I know how social they are but its not fun getting scratched and bullied when you're feeling weak and old. I think if you give her her own space she will probably snooze more and perhaps be more relaxed. She won't need anywhere big., my first hamster cage was a marchioro Rene which is a fairly small rat cage which the owners bought to house an elderly rat. Good luck sorting her out, she is a little poppet and I'm glad you're her owner as you care so much about her x
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Aw thankyou so much :')
I think when Hugo gets a new cage, hopefully soon! I will move rosie into his current cage, along with her wooden house that she sleeps in :P
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