About Beth Expertise I can answer basic questions, like, how to handle and restrain any rodents and their nutritional information. I also know how to take care of rodents.
Question Hello, I just rescued a small baby rat (I think it is a rat because it is larger than a baby mouse, has sparse dark gray hair and it has not opened its eyes yet.) I am currently feeding it room-temperature skim milk, which is all I had in the house. It doesn't appear to be hurt externally. Please advise what needs to be fed to it and how to care for it.
Thank you,
Kelly
Answer Kelly,
I would keep giving the baby rat the milk until it gets up to about 6 or 12 weeks old and it's eyes are open and then you can start to feed it regular rat food, you can buy rat food at a local store and or pet store, non that i can recommend. I would probably get the big cubes though(pellets.) Give it a water bottle and any cage you want a regular cage will do fine, you can put lots of exciting things in the cage for it to hide in and ect... I would recommend using pine bedding for the cage. Make sure that there is enough pine bedding to cover the cage with. That is all that you need. Clean the cage out every other day and thats about it.
