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 if the mites are only apparent on one, as
they could still be around, just not visible (the injection should
last long enough to kill any mites that are left).



--- In amrisratsandmice@y..., "pologrl2069" <woznia23@m...> wrote:
> 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