Help Please!! Rat Bit Me Again?

Question

I recently gave him 3 baby female rats for cage mates and now he is very aggressive he bit me once 2 days ago and that is healing nicely even though it was a nice gash

Well he got me again just now and I am a little worried about this one. Im a scardy cat and i dont want to lose my finger

It is very swollen and b/c of this i have trouble bending it.

It looks like the inside of my finger is coming out. There is a pink poofy thing sticking out of my finger from the cut.

Here is a photo

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Here is a photo of the swelling

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Im scared. What should I do. I washed it out 2 times with antibacterial soap and i dont have any neosporin. I wrapped it tightly with a bandaid because when i bend it it bleeds.

Am i going to lose my finger. Kinda scared

Answer 1

go to the doctor then after make a stop at pet co & buy "time out" and  spray it on your hands when you go near it . hope i was help....  

Answer 2

he is most likely agressive towards you because he has female rats in his cage, and whenever you go near the cage or put your hand in it, he thinks you are going to 'steal' them from him. has he been fixed?

rats do NOT bite for no reason. and keeping 2 males together doesnt mean they will fight.

Answer 3

Why have you put 3 baby girl rats in with a boy rat? I hope he's neutered! They are far to young to be having babies if their only a baby themselves. And he's probably biting you because the smell of the females are making him excited and he's being protective of them. Please seperate them immediately if that male is not neutered. You wouldn't like it if when you were about 2 years old and made to have a litter of up to 20 babies. You shouldn't be allowed to keep rats if your thinking of feeding him to your snake because he bit you and because you put 2 babies in with a male. And btw to the person that said rats are aggresive, they are the most tame out of all the rodents. A hamster is more likely to bite than a rat and to be honest i'm not surprised he's biting you when you obviously treat him badly.Rats are not aggresive.I think you should give the rats to a home where they would be loved and never ever get another animal. You should never own one.

Answer 4

go to the doctor for the finger to be checked. as for the rat, is he neutered?? if he isn't then he needs to be. males that aren't neutered can become aggressive. but I'm guessing he is because of the females. he may even be trying to protect the females. separate him from the females and see how he acts. make sure the females are no where near him. if he just always seems to be aggressive then sell him or give him away to a humane society. but try and sell him, then he can still have a good home. and not sit in a humane society forever. whatever you do, don't feed him to a snake, he doesn't deserve it. that is just mean.

Answer 5

Soak it in peroxide puts some tea tree oil on it, wrap it up and in the morning get a snake to bite your rat!

Answer 6

you could throw him against a wall a few times.  This will either kill him, so he can't bite you anymore, or turn him into a retarded rat, and then he probably won't bite you either.

Answer 7

i say killed the rat get ur snake to get bigger and tell him to eat it by the never buy a rat they r ugly and they bite anybody and why did u put 3 female he is going to have s*x with them and have babies and ur going to be in big trouble or u can buy a second male rat and put it to the cage cause two males cannot be in the same cage so they will start fighting and one of them will die and the other will die too if it's really hurt but i would ur snake if u have one  

Answer 8

Go to a doctors. Call public health. Rodents are aggressive especially rats. That's why most people hate them. See if your animal control dept will come pick them up.

Answer 9

idk if you could lose your finger... its probably just infected, bite the bullet and go to the doctor.