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Mushie_Man
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Has my rat got cancer?
#3325673 - 11/05/04 06:23 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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There something really wrong with one of my rats, i just noticed it has a really big lump on its neck down to its stomach, i dont think this is natural at all, my other rat doesent have one, and i hear about rats bein vunerable to cancer, shes about 1 and half years old, can anyone help me out?
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Mushie_Man]
#3325681 - 11/05/04 06:25 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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tumor probably. sorry.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Mushie_Man]
#3325682 - 11/05/04 06:25 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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sounds like a yumar rats are one of my favorite pets unfortunaylt they mostly all get tumars eventualy usualy they dont kill the rat mine had one for like 2 years go to the vet to get it checked out
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Mushie_Man
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Mushie_Man]
#3325700 - 11/05/04 06:30 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ok, thanks, ill get her checked out, but im almost certain its a tumor
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Mushie_Man]
#3325770 - 11/05/04 06:52 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I used to breed rodents to feed snakes and they all get tumors when they get old, it is not cancer. I don't believe there is anything you can do about it, it's pretty normal. The tumors don't really cause any ill effects except when they get REALLY big and impede movement. Best to humanely put them down when they get to that point.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Scratcher]
#3325787 - 11/05/04 06:58 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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any rat putting down recommendations?
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Vvellum]
#3325812 - 11/05/04 07:06 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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For small rats and mice I just grabbed them by the tail and smacked the back of their head on the edge of a counter. Sounds violent but they died instantly.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Mushie_Man]
#3325823 - 11/05/04 07:09 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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most likely it is; but i would suggest taking it to a vet. I watched an episode of 'emergency vets' or something like that and there was a rat diagnosed with canceer. if you're attatched you can get meds to make it's little bit of time left on earth a little less sufferable... but putting it down will probably be the more selfless choice
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Yeah rats suck when they get old. My brother had one that died a couple years ago. They get too fat to move from all tumors and can get to their food so they die of starvation. Other times they scratch or bite their tumors so much they become infectious.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: pantsboy]
#3325900 - 11/05/04 07:34 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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what up with rats and tumors?
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Scratcher]
#3325919 - 11/05/04 07:37 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds violent but they died instantly.
Used to do this with our snake food, and they don't always die instantly... Its his pet, not a feeder. You don't want his last memories of his rat to be it skwirming around while his brain fills with blood. If its not in pain, and the doctor says it not in pain, don't kill it.
Our rat can't use its back legs, because _5_ years ago it got some tumor on its spine. Its still alive and always happy to see everyone. But your situation might be different.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Vvellum]
#3325923 - 11/05/04 07:38 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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i dunno i've heard alot about rats and tumors.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Scratcher]
#3326248 - 11/05/04 10:12 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Scratcher said: For small rats and mice I just grabbed them by the tail and smacked the back of their head on the edge of a counter. Sounds violent but they died instantly.
that sounds gruesome, i fucken love it
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Scratcher]
#3326288 - 11/05/04 10:39 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Scratcher said: For small rats and mice I just grabbed them by the tail and smacked the back of their head on the edge of a counter. Sounds violent but they died instantly.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Vvellum]
#3326311 - 11/05/04 10:58 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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bi0 said: any rat putting down recommendations?
easy dude, just think about it, what could i do to him to put him out of his suffering as fast as possible, without him feeling much at all.
i pre-kill rats before i feed them to my snakes, because a rat can bite your animals eye out. so what i do, is, it sounds bad and childish, but. you need to put a pencil on the back of his neck, and pull up as fast and hard, as you can. your gonna break his neck, he aint gonna suffer at all, he will shake violently for 3-6 seconds, thats just what its body does when its dead as fuck that fast. i suggest you look away and not look it in the face if its a pet animal, ive never been emotionally attached to a rat, but i can see how someone could, they are sooo smart and charming. the only faster way would be to blast him away with about any calibre gun, a red ryder to the dome would take him out. dont jump the guns on takeing its life, if its not obvously suffering real bad, id just let him die of natural causes.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Super_Blunt]
#3326312 - 11/05/04 11:00 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Super_Blunt said:
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Scratcher said: For small rats and mice I just grabbed them by the tail and smacked the back of their head on the edge of a counter. Sounds violent but they died instantly.
that sounds gruesome, i fucken love it
thats a good one, its not for the light hearted at all thoug.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Psychoslut]
#3326378 - 11/05/04 11:39 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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i could kill a mouse, i put its little head in my mouth and bite its head off, quick and painless enough for ya?
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Super_Blunt]
#3326510 - 11/06/04 12:25 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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taking a rat to the vet that's funny. the bill would be like 20x's more than you paid for him just for the appointment fee. the general bio classes at my school are doing rat discetion at my school i work in the lab and they way we kill them for the classes is put them in a bucket and pump co2 into it and they're dead in half hour or less, usually 10mins. doubt you have a co2 tank but you could rig something up to your car exhaust wouldn't take long at all with all that flow.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Super_Blunt]
#3326523 - 11/06/04 12:29 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Super Blunt and Skorpivo, this is the pub and I don't think your making light of killing pets fits in well here. Go to OTD if you can't be considerate of people's feelings.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: MarioNett]
#3326530 - 11/06/04 12:34 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am considerate sir, I have rodents as pets 2 chinchillas, im just saying i am savage enough to bite a mouses head off, any pet is hard to see die, and many people have seen tumors in rats and doesnt sound life-threatening, good luck with your pet though guy.
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Re: Has my rat got cancer? [Re: Super_Blunt]
#3326567 - 11/06/04 12:59 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Super_Blunt said: i could kill a mouse, i put its little head in my mouth and bite its head off, quick and painless enough for ya?
if your trying to say that im some rat lovin hippie or something your dead wrong, you dont know me at all do ya?
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