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Hello....
Ok so I started out with my rat Dewey and she was so amazing I
really wanted another rat. A friend of mine works at PETCO and they
sell feeder rats and she had one in particular that she loved and
wanted to see saved so I took him in. Well after a week of having
him I noticed that he had........GASP!.......mites and that he had
also passed them to Dewey. I cleaned and THOROUGHLY bleached their
cages, the walls around their cages and the floor. I also bathed
them with a mite shampoo and that seemed to take care of the
problem. Well I went away last week and came back (my sis ratty sat
for me) and the mites had come back!!!! (It has been 3 weeks sionce
the first incident) but this time they are only in Huey's cage (not
deweys) I feel so bad that this has happened to Huey and Dewey and I
am completely grossed out! I gave them mite baths and did the whole
bleaching thing again but it didn't fix the problem last time. If
ANYONE has any advice i would GREATLY appreciate it!! HELP ME!!
THANKS!
~Theresa




Mon Aug 19, 2002 4:24 am

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Hello.... Ok so I started out with my rat Dewey and she was so amazing I really wanted another rat. A friend of mine works at PETCO and they sell feeder...
pologrl2069
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Aug 19, 2002
4:24 am

A vet can give your rats an injection that should clear up the mites completely - at least, it worked on mine. It might be best to get both rats injected even...
chiriyu
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Aug 19, 2002
12:58 pm

Hi Theresa, You can also buy a horse worming paste product called "Equimec". It costs about $18 for a tube. You put a rice grain sized amount on a que-tip...
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Aug 27, 2002
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