We have spent well over $2000 on vet bills (total). We have to go to the vet, oh I'd say about 6 times a year due to illnesses and we walk out usually paying anywhere from $50-250 each visit. We were last at the vet May 11th and had to spend around $260 for vet care.

My rats are constantly getting sick, there is no way to avoid it. Almost all of the females rats I have owned have gotten tumors, surgery to remove them would cost us $650 according to the estimate given to us by the vet.

Suzie and Phoebe are the only two rats I currently own who have never gone to the vet- thank the Lord! *knocks on wood*. Suzie has developed a small bald patch on her forearm, I went to job shadow my vet yesterday, and he gave me some medicine for free to help it heal.

Oreo, Skittles, Nugget, Sweet Pea, Oscar, Fred, Chloe, Daisy, Peanut, Punkin, and Violette have all had to go to the vet more than two times. Suzie & Phoebe- never.

I am currently fostering three rats, and the patchwork hairless girl is looking a little thin and I think she is getting ill too, I will have to watch her, and knowing my luck I will have to go to the vet. .

They get a good diet, they live in a huge five story cage that gets cleaned all the time- it's not like I am abusing them. The fact that they are pet store rats says it all right there.

But the love they give me in return is well worth it all.