Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Bianca

Bianca - March 2013 - March 27, 2015


(same pre-history as family)

Lynds of Henry's Haven forwarded me an email from a woman asking for help. Basically she had gotten overwhelmed since having her first oops litter, and then there were more. She ended up with 28 rats (including the 3 original girls) quite quickly. Her husband had/has a snake and she saved the original 3 girls from being eaten. The husband didn't understand rats as pets and was threatening to toss them outside or poison them while she was at work. When her 7 year old daughter decided to mix and match rats, more litters were born and it snowballed. Her MIL told her to just drown the babies as that is what they do with kittens...thankfully this woman did not listen to such terrible advice and and instead saw Lynds' HH Rat Rescue and contacted her. Lynds asked me to email her. We then discovered she was in Toronto, so I ended up taking in a young mom with her litter of 12 2-weekers and 3 young boys (the uncles).

They unfortunately showed up at my home at a time when I didn't realize my colony had SDA...so within a week everyone was sick
I managed to save them all and for the most part they seemed healthy but SDA is the virus that keeps on giving and I knew there could be health ramifications later in life. The boys and girls all grew up friendly and sweet, the uncles not so much. The 7 boys all ended up living together harmoniously with no hormonal issues, but sadly the health woes began early and the endless rounds of antibiotics were started.

The girls were much healthier than the boys overall, but Bianca, unlike her 3 sisters, had decided from the beginning that I was out to kill her any way I could. Most of her life was spent, happy with her family, petrified, tail wagging, screeching and bolting around me. :P I think the stresses in her behaviour caused her immune system to not work as well as the others and she was the first with a mucky eye, a chronic URI and failing over night. 
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