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What not to eat & what you wouldn't expect in food:
Never give your rat any of these foods or products you may have or use in your house hold: (No)
WHAT RATS AREN"T ALLOWED TO EAT:
Vinager- Certain chemicals such as fatty acids, but most importantly -acetic acids 5% per
volume of container. The smell and taste are both very bad and unhealthy for your rat.
Oranges- Acids and Taste can cause, kidney or liver faillure with males and could occur
in females aswell.
Ice Cream- Contains bacteria, is frozen, if container is open and or heated or left out of container
with out lid for acouple hours; your rat could have the possibility to get worms or to get sick from the dried out creme.
Bananna's- can give some rats diarrhea (Lumpy Pooh) and or a tummy ache. Other wise they
are allowed to have them.
Fish Food- some of the ingrediants in it is bad for your rat such as: 'white fish meal, wheat flour,
wheat-germ meal, brewer's dried yeast, soybean meal, shrimp meal, dehydrated alfalfa meal, caratene, thiamaine monoitriate,
riboflavin,pyridoxe hydrochloride, vitamin A supplement, ect...' There's a chemical in fish food that can hurt their body
parts.
Spit,Snot or Boogers- are gross and the acids would give your rat mild tummy aches plus dissolve
some of the acids in their throat and in their stomache.
Salt- well you can give them salt but not too much.
WHAT RATS ARE ALLOWED TO EAT:
-Hagen's nutriblocks
-(nutriblocks)
-The lab diet
-yellow and green vegetables (cooked)
-fruits, not too much citrus fruits though.
-tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, little bits of ripe green lettuce.
For more information go to Jorats site:
JORATS
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Harmful fumes:
Here are some Harmful fumes you should watch out for: Perfume, nail polish, any paint products, beer-(any
soda drinks), marker fumes(perminent markers), phlorescent fumes (any light products that spread fumes when they brake
or explode), gasoline, ect... Any other fumes that you wouldn't want to be around or might make you a little dizzy, your rat
wouldn't want to be around them either. Don't just think about your health and safety, think about your rat too.
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The most common thing people want to do is Backyard breeding. That means: when you mate girls and boys,
without thinking or considering about the babies health. The worst thing you can do is breed without knowing the genetics
of both rats. It's best to leave it to the proffessionals or in other words Proper Genetics Breeders.
You will need to have bigger cages(more room to run around),Food and Water is a must(plenty of it),
if you do end up to be a Backyard Breeder, obviously the genes from the mom and dad will get passed down. This will happen
whether or not your rats are sick or ill, if they are those genes will get passed down(maybe even more sever than before.
This will continue to happen through the genes until there is nothing left.
It's also hard to find homes for the kittens "I know its hard but, i found homes for two rats. Would
you want to be the one responsable for a rat getting put into a bad home or getting fed to a snake?
One of these genetics is Aggresion. They can get illnesses from mom and dad or parents
such as: Myco and or Tumors. I was too, a backyard breeder along with my friends Liz & Lisa. The babies were
born with a breathing problem from their father(Kowrat).
From my point of view "dont buy any-rats from petstores!"
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