Originally posted by luckies4me
You don't want to trim them if you don't have to. Chances are if they get a lot of hard blocks/food their teeth should be fine. I only trim my older does teeth because they eat more mushy type foods rather than blocks etc. To keep their teeth worn down they need to have things to chew on, like wooden parrot toys, lab blocks etc.

I just use nail clippers, it's fairly easy but care needs to be taken to make sure you don't get a piece of their tongue or what not.


I just started trimming teeth not to long ago and the rats I have had have never had problems, so I am sure yours are fine.
Thanx. I just checked and no ones teeth look to long so I didn't trim them. They were shorter then I thought they would be acctaully! LOL. So I'm not gonna trim, I see no need. They have lots of toys in there to chew so I'm not to worried, although I will try to check just to make sure there are no problems.

Thanx!

Ash