poor rat guy got put down :< he got a mammary tumor [turns out my rats are both actually female,,, shade and timothy.,, uhhh oops] first vet that saw him said as long as shade is functioning well and has good movement don't remove it because risky well this tumor got him put down not cancerous it was benign but it was so big and had a big blood supply to it and to get it removed is risky bc small animal, very very few specialists where im at [none in my entire city, only in cities more than 2 hours away from mine] most don't seem to have experience with it allegedly annnd if the tumor was to go off so would his hind leg and we couldn't get him seen by a specialist till at minimum 2 months from now not worth putting shade through stuff ya know kinda sad
