HI all
So I bought myself 4 rats a week ago (1 male 3 female) and two of them were knocked up at the time. 1 of them popped on Friday night producing 9 pups (pups the right word?). Anyway all was apparently good and when I got home on Sunday night I saw that the other preggy female was now sitting with the pups. And it looked like she might have been trying to keep the mother away from the little ones, although the mother didn't seem to phased by this turn of events. I woke up this morning however to find that all 9 pups are gone with a little blood stained saw dust here and there. I am keeping all 4 of the rats in the same cage for what its worth.
Any idea as to what went wrong? Do you think the preggy female could have killed them? The male possibly? Or the mother? But most importantly what should I do to prevent this from happening again? Im going to have to do something soon though because the preggy female is about to pop soon and I would prefer not to have a repeat of this.
Kind Regards
Riaan