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<blockquote data-quote="credithelpplease" data-source="post: 2051435" data-attributes="member: 739022">We have a dumbo rat that is 1 1/2, another that is 8 months and we just got 3 new babies around 2 months. Right now the babies are in a different cage but it is beside the bigger cage that they will all eventually live in. The one thing I have noticed is that baby rats make all kinds of noise. We have one that sounds like she is sneezing but she all does it when she is happy, another one chirps like a bird when she is happy and we two that cluck like a chicken. My point is it may sound like whining but it may be her way of communicating. If you feel like it may be more, the baby might have been too young to separate from her mom which could be the reason she is following the older rat around. They really should not leave their mom until they around 6 weeks old (prebably 8 weeks), most pet stores pull them away around 3 to 4 weeks. That is much too young.Plus 3 bucks is really cheap. Are you sure she wasn&#039;t a feeder rat? They are treated a lot differently than pet rats and we learned the hard way that they tend to be more prone to disease.&nbsp; At one time we bought a feeder rat and she ended up dying from a bacterial respiratory disease that can affect other rats. We had to take our other rat to the vet to get on antibiotics so she would not meet the same fate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="credithelpplease, post: 2051435, member: 739022"] We have a dumbo rat that is 1 1/2, another that is 8 months and we just got 3 new babies around 2 months. Right now the babies are in a different cage but it is beside the bigger cage that they will all eventually live in. The one thing I have noticed is that baby rats make all kinds of noise. We have one that sounds like she is sneezing but she all does it when she is happy, another one chirps like a bird when she is happy and we two that cluck like a chicken. My point is it may sound like whining but it may be her way of communicating. If you feel like it may be more, the baby might have been too young to separate from her mom which could be the reason she is following the older rat around. They really should not leave their mom until they around 6 weeks old (prebably 8 weeks), most pet stores pull them away around 3 to 4 weeks. That is much too young. Plus 3 bucks is really cheap. Are you sure she wasn't a feeder rat? They are treated a lot differently than pet rats and we learned the hard way that they tend to be more prone to disease. At one time we bought a feeder rat and she ended up dying from a bacterial respiratory disease that can affect other rats. We had to take our other rat to the vet to get on antibiotics so she would not meet the same fate. [/QUOTE]

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