I hope merry is doing better! Good luck with him & kwwp us posted on the outcome.

I stayed out of this for a little while, there is so much I wanted to say but again this post has a lot of anger in it. So I will keep it minimal. Please forgive me if I offend everyone, this is my personal opinion take it how you want but leave it at that. I just had to say something, although this is not even the tip of the iceberg.

Granted she is a kid, but that does not deny her the rights to have pets, although I personally think that she should have a limit, there is no way I would of ever had that many pets at one time when I was relying on my parents to pay for it, just because of times like this! But she certainly has grown up a lot in the pst few months or so! I have seen a great improvement in her attitude & how she handles situations, although it looks as if this topic got the best of her. She is a good kid & tries hard just that maybe she got in a little over her head, hopefully she will learn from this. After all most learn the best from mistakes! Again, although you may not be rich you can still have animals just not so many of them & please do not add onto the family until you can afford all animals. I am not rich either, I can pay for good food, care treats etc.. but I can not afford a very major medical emergancy but luckily I have set aside some money for emergancy funds although not much, BUT BEFORE I brought in any additional animals I chacked with my vet to make sure payment plans would be available if an emergancy should come up. And they are.

Jobs are scarce now a days, the economy sucks but I do hope that you are trying to find a job!

And last but not least, please do not get upset at everyone for "wanting you to explain" as after all you are the first one that let us all know about your hurt rattie so you should be prepared to stand up for yourself & explain what happened. And it may actually help you out in a few ways, first of all it won't be built up inside you & depending on how the accident occured it may be very helpful in offering suggestions to help heal your rattie!

good luck with your rat!