This is an update on the small caged animals (2x rats and 3 x hamsters) rescued yesterday. The owner had told us that her mother was coming home from hospital after a heart attack and the hospital had told her that the rats would kill her mother because they were full of germs. When our kind transporter (who dropped everything and went straight to collect them) went to collect them she was shocked at the smell and state of the cages and also surprised when she got handed 3 hamsters that the woman had forgotten about! The rats (housed in a Tickets chinchilla cage) had a small hammock thick with urine hanging off the top of the cage. They had various cardboard tubes caked in faeces and their bedding (paper based cat litter) was old and thick with urine. They were sleeping in their own faeces. The bars of the cage were thickened with urine in one corner that had clearly not been cleaned for months. Healthwise...not great. Although they had not been bedded on woodchip, the ammonia that they were forced to inhale has given them both chest complaints and both girls have an untreated mite infestation. Both are very out of condition but this would be to the skin problems. Now onto the hamsters - 1x female Syrian hamster, 1x male Syrian hamster and 1x male Russian hamster. All easy to handle, but once again housed in vile conditions. These three were bedded on woodchip but it was so old that it had gone dark brown. They had pulled what bedding they had into their little house which had become tangled up with more faeces than bedding, so they also sleeping in their own poo. Two were housed in their own separate open topped storage boxes and one in the tiniest hamster cage ever. All 3 have chest complaints and untreated mite infestations which they have gone straight onto medication for. Due to the owner admitting that there was a problem and handing them over to rescue, it will be no good reporting this as the animals are now out of her care. I know that some people were concerned that her mother would return home to her pets being gone, but as you can see from above, these animals were far better out of the care of these people than staying put. And YES, the germs were bad, but that was NOT down to them being a certain species, but due to terrible animal ownership and lack of basic care. Thanks to both lots of transporters and also am happy to say that one transporter who helped out asked to adopt the female rats (they have adopted from us in the past), so armed with the correct medication they have gone to their new home with full back up from us of course! I know that it is difficult to say nothing in times like this, but in this case, it was totally necessary to get the animals out of there!!
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:54:50 +0000
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