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Title: Question for PEW owners Post by: ~*ChaoticSerenity*~ on May 30, 2008, 10:06:39 PM I just got home from Texas and went to cuddle my girls and noticed they were pretty smelly (probably because they missed out on their weekly baby wipe wipe down)...so i decided id give them a quick bath which went great..i used scent free alch. free baby shampoo..very little...i think they enjoyed their mini spa treatment and im less sneezy when holding them :thumbsup2: ...well anyway my precious lady after her bath she was a bright white..i dried her off and put her on the couch to play and noticed about 10min later she had a light reddish hair around her neck like she was bleeding..i checked nothing....is this normal? what could it be??
(http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk57/wnjordan/lady-1.png) sorry you cant really see it but its very noticable Title: Re: Question for PEW owners Post by: Addicted2Rats on May 30, 2008, 10:30:50 PM That's porphyrin from when she was grooming herself. It's normal to see a small amount of porphyrin around their nose when they first wake up. She might have had a little bit more coming out from the stress of the bath, and when she was grooming herself afterwards she spread it onto her fur like that.
I don't have a PEW but my one rat, Riff, has alot of white fur and I can see the porphyrin staining sometimes too. Deb Title: Re: Question for PEW owners Post by: chiropteragirl on May 30, 2008, 10:35:59 PM Yes, that's normal. It happens to my PEW, too.
Title: Re: Question for PEW owners Post by: ~*ChaoticSerenity*~ on May 30, 2008, 11:18:04 PM ok thanks...all i needed to know...i just took a baby wipe and wiped it up and it hasnt came back...i figured thats what it was just wanted to be sure...
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