Parent house stinks of rat urine

Neil79

Neil79

Neil79

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My dad's place now stinks of rat urine , he recently purchased a rat and was told to keep it clean . However his version of cleaning is once a week at the end of and not only that , all he does is scoop up the poo while leaving the rest of the sawdust inside. Now the place stinks , when i come over to visit all i got is " your nose is just too sensitive ". I've also told him it needs to be cleaned more often and the response is " i can't afford that ".

I cleaned it up once while he was out and it was disgusting , damp sawdust with little critters underneath jumping about. It's a large wood cage structure in his living room and parts of the cage is now stained with rat urine :rolleyes: , even the rat stinks of it.

Any ideas? , i don't feel i can say to him i won't visit you anymore because of the rat
 
lol , believe me i want to :p , but this isn't my rat and it's his pet!. I'm not sure many people would take their pets away from a family member
 
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A method that may help him to realise more about rat care...:)
 
Drug the rat so it looks dead, tell him you'll take care of it, then take it away and take it to a rescue centre. Tell your Dad you buried him (at Sea for extra LULZ).
 
Also, in my experience, cat litter (the wooden pellet type) tends to smell less than sawdust, so he could try using that. Not sure if there's any issues in using it with rats though.
 
Wait 2 weeks for the rat to eat through the crate to freedom and / or create a giant rat nest in his shoes.
 
prepare rat au vin or rat fricasse according to the Baldrick recipie, serve to your dad saying its chicken, problem solved.
 
With all due respect I would hope that if his previous pets went in sudden circumstances then perhaps a light bulb would activate and he might take an interest in the care of his animal.

Rspca, if all else fails then this might actually be a good learning curve for him. :)
 
As someone else has mentioned

Suggest to him that you are going to call the RSPCA on him as the living conditions of those rats are unfair. And if that does nothing to make him clean them out properly then actually call them. Pets are a responsibility and if " he cant afford that" then he should not have got them as pets in the first place.

You wouldnt hear him saying the same about a human child? Or would you?
 
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