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Have you ever had a rat?: Over the years I have had many. I had about 5 up until about 2 weeks ago I lost my 4 year old and then before that I lost my 5 year old rat about 2 months prior to that.
Total over the last 15 (I didn't start owning rodents until I was 8, I am 23 now) years or so I have had at least 20. I always own in pairs if not more.
Tweak
Tweak actually happens to have two different colored eyes. You can only tell when shes looking directly into the light. Shes my most hyper rat and I wish I could find a way to calm her down a bit.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2jadd1j.jpgOblina & Pearl (the two I recently lost)
Oblina's death was expected, she was almost 6 and her health had slowly been decreasing. Pearl however developed one mammary tumor. It grew fairly quick and about 2 weeks after the first one appeared she had a second mammary tumor. She died about 2 weeks ago now and I expected her to keep kicking for a while even after the tumors. My last rat that had a tumor before Pearl lasted over a year, Pearl sadly only lasted 3 months after her tumors popped up.
http://i38.tinypic.com/2edp4jl.jpg (the day I brought Pearl home to be Oblinas new BFF after Bambi died)
http://i38.tinypic.com/5cwxa9.jpg (Oblina a about a year before she passed)
http://i33.tinypic.com/1q37h2.jpg (Pearl before she developed mammary tumors)
Kipsy
http://i34.tinypic.com/5f55wy.jpgCleo - Now a few months after I purchased little Cleo here, I came home to find her half dead at the bottom of the cage. I called a Rat Vet immediately. They said she seemed super depressed and had an unknown virus going on where she basically had mucus in her feces. She was basically on the verge of death...Thankfully I brought her back to life and she is fat and healthy now. She was left with a head tilt from the virus.
http://i36.tinypic.com/dm709t.jpgBambi
http://i37.tinypic.com/ndn2j5.jpgPearl, Cleo, Kipsy

Dexter and Pearl!
