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Jul 21, 2019 5:06:48 GMT -5
Post by abbeytheferret6 on Jul 21, 2019 5:06:48 GMT -5
Oh boy, it has been about 3 or so days, and I haven't written about it--- a little embarrassed, but I left the lid off my rats aquarium after cleaning it, and one of my female rats has escaped. I was warned ASF rats are jumpers. She is living under the stove. I have blocked off both entrances to the kitchen with wood panels, so she would not leave the area. We also have pulled the drawer out of the stove bottom, and have been feeding her. She eats her treats of kale and blueberries and her seeds. I have a box with a tube running out of it, but I guess she had rather stay in the insulation in the sides of the stove. Her food is not in the box because when I put it in there, the seeds seemed undisturbed. However I am putting it closer to it's entrance. Maybe I should put a box within the box and fill it with shredded paper for a nesting area.
Hubbie ordered a live trap from amazon. It is suppose to be here today. We will see.
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Jul 21, 2019 8:52:25 GMT -5
Post by Sherry on Jul 21, 2019 8:52:25 GMT -5
You could always let one of the ferrets in JK! Fingers crossed you can catch her
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Jul 21, 2019 13:25:17 GMT -5
Post by abbeytheferret6 on Jul 21, 2019 13:25:17 GMT -5
The trap came in just a little while ago Buddy did break in the kitchen as he is use to roaming in there. The panelling is just held up by spots of postal tape and a little duct tape. Yes, finger crossed here too.
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Post by peacexlovexpets on Jul 22, 2019 12:29:45 GMT -5
Best of luck! We limited my ratties to a single room when they would free roam (typically my sewing room), but every once and a while the little stinkers would decide to hideout behind a piece of heavy furniture that you couldn't safely move without squishing them.
Best of luck! For my ladies, I had a special song I would sing when they got their favorite treat (it was a chicken dog biscuit type thing), so all I had to do was sing and they would run up to me no matter how stubborn they had been previously about staying hidden.
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Jul 23, 2019 4:29:06 GMT -5
Post by abbeytheferret6 on Jul 23, 2019 4:29:06 GMT -5
Read more: holisticferret60.proboards.com/thread/25314/escape#ixzz5uUWm8VDXSo did your rats put themselves up at night in a cage? The frozen rats I get my ferrets are about 8 ounces was that about your rats weight? Did they have a favorite area to potty? My rats are ASF, and they are about the size of a plump mouse or a bit bigger.
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Jul 23, 2019 4:56:57 GMT -5
Post by abbeytheferret6 on Jul 23, 2019 4:56:57 GMT -5
We did catch her in the live trap and she is hurt in some way. Eyes are squinty and she seems bigger--maybe her hair is fluffed for being in fiberglass(sides if stove probably) I sent a pic to hubby so when he gets to work he can enlarge it on his phone and interpret (I do not like to look at trauma). She has stayed in the corner of the aquarium. I know she has been in fiberglass so I don't know if she ingested it. Also it seems like the male and the female wants to fight her now. At first they crawled all over her. i thought they may be grooming her, but since they have been in together for a while, they have tried to pick on her ----standing on hind legs and squeaking. Even as weak as she is, she stood up. I moved them to second aquarium. I put some kale, broccolli, blueberries,and strawberry slices in a little container for her and sprinkled water all over it in case she is too weak to drink from water bottle. Edited---well hubby said it was her foot up against her face in the pic, so no trauma to her face. Poor baby passed away
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Post by peacexlovexpets on Jul 24, 2019 14:16:38 GMT -5
So did your rats put themselves up at night in a cage? The frozen rats I get my ferrets are about 8 ounces was that about your rats weight? Did they have a favorite area to potty? My rats are ASF, and they are about the size of a plump mouse or a bit bigger. Mine were bred as feeders (my neighbor bred reptiles and small rodents), but I adopted them as pets (so I had 2 ladies), so they were quite small as far as rats go (I never weighed them, but they could curl up in the palm of my small hand no problem). Mine did not have a potty place. One was a dribbler, the other most never had accidents. They lived in my single critter nation for 2 years. I would let them out and they would ride around on my shoulders for the majority of the day and then I would put them back in the cage at night.
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