Question for PEW owners

[~*ChaoticSerenity*~]

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 ...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??



sorry you cant really see it but its very noticable

[Addicted2Rats]

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

[chiropteragirl]

Yes, that's normal. It happens to my PEW, too.

[~*ChaoticSerenity*~]

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...