taty
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i had 2 males i had them both out 2 days ago and cleaned them out and filt the food boles up that normally lasts them about 3 days and i went to bring them out tonight
and only 1 of them came to the hatch so i opened up the cage and the outher one was half eaten  only the bottom half of it was left with the spine still there the other one had defiantly eaten it
is that normal behaver for rats i got tolt when i bought them it was better to buy 2 of them because they would get depressed on there own
has this happend to anyone else or do i have a very strange rat
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Eck
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 Sounds to me like you have a very strange rat!!
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Colin
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Is the rat called Hanibal 
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taty
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nope its called hamster lol
the thing is they have been in the same cage for 2 years i dont know what the fcuk has happend
[Edited on 07-02-2008 by taty]
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Jay
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Fuck that, couldnt have rats in the house, never heard of them eating eachother though
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Eck
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I would commit atrocities if I was called that too
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Jay
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If you lived with someone for 2 years, you'd expect a fight. One obviously took the argument abit too far 
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taty
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quote:
Originally posted by Eckmcmann
I would commit atrocities if I was called that too
lol my son called it that after his hamster called hamster died he was only 3 at the time
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Eck
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quote:
Originally posted by JayM
If you lived with someone for 2 years, you'd expect a fight. One obviously took the argument abit too far
Took the term "Spineless rat" too seriously?
Sorry
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taty
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quote:
Originally posted by JayM
If you lived with someone for 2 years, you'd expect a fight. One obviously took the argument abit too far
yep it had to be the nice one though (he just happened to be smaller)
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Jay
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Did you take any pics?
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taty
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quote:
Originally posted by Eckmcmann
quote:
Originally posted by JayM
If you lived with someone for 2 years, you'd expect a fight. One obviously took the argument abit too far
Took the term "Spineless rat" too seriously?
Sorry
you tw@ your making me laugh about my dead pet
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taty
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quote:
Originally posted by JayM
Did you take any pics?
nope its in the bin now
if you realy wanted i could get some though
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Jay
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Was just curious, dont go out your way though, i havent got a fetish
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taty
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i have got some pics on my mobile but i cant find the cable to up load them if someone would post them for me pm me your mobile no and i,ll send to you
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freeman(sting)
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g on someone sounds interesting
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Sunz
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I have had rats before there quality pets.
Rats who are not from the same family will kill each other ,like being stuck in a cage with steve you would defo kill him maybe not eat him, rats I have had have always been brothers or sisters as this is what was reckonmend at the shop.
As for now do you get another rat to keep that one company I do not know he sounds like he wants to live alone
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foxyk8t
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ratzrus.co.uk apparently is a good website, girl i work with has two as pets and said thats good for advice.
She also said that rats only tend to live for about two to three years and it maybe that it died of natural causes - then its mate got a little peckish?
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C2RL R
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its a bit strange that tbh. my mate's mother used to own a pet shop so he knows a thing or 2 about rats, i've just text him and he said he's never heard of that.
i suppose you can get mental rats just like you can get mental humans. just a bit bad having to clean that up in your own home! hope you didn't show your son the remains!
regarding the surviving rat......get a shovel to bash its cannibal head in. or ask chuck norris to roundhouse kick it in the face.
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Nismo
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I had 2 rats when i was younger, 2 sisters, i got them together as it weas better 2 have 2 im pretty sure this is not normal!!
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taty
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cheers for the replys i hadn't herd of anything like this before so i thought i would ask
they where brothers im starting to hope he died naturally and the outher one got peckish like foxyk8t said
i cant kill it i couldn't do that to a animal but im defiantly not getting another one to keep him company
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Richie
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We had the same issues with our 8 chipmunks.
We had the room they were staying in carpet shampood and when it was drying out it made all the chipmunks unwell and gave 6 of them quite a bad respitory disease.
Before we knew it 4 of them had died and were half eaten
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Jay
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Id let you send the pics to my mobile but cant find me bluetooth dongle to put them on the PC
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Steve
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you're a rat
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Shane
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i had a rat, he was called rodney he was a dumbo rat, had him for 3 years which is a good lifespan for a rat.
i wouldnt get 2 as they look after each other and are not fussed about human contact, where as 1 will always want attention and be more 'pet like'
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