Meet My Pet Rats

I’ve heard such good things about Harlan Teklad, so I decided to go ahead and try them out. It comes in different varieties and levels of protien, but I got the 2014 which means it has 14% protein. Unfortunately you can’t just buy it from a pet store, so I ordered it from ColdBloods.com - a reseller. They were great, and it arrived in 2 days. The down side is that you have to order it in 33lb. shipments. That’s okay though, I just have a freezer full of extra food. And the price came out to 96cents per pound after the shipping was added in. Not bad! Mazuri was costing me $3 a pound at PetsMart.

Anyways, the rats love it! I put some in their bowl along with the Mazuri and some cheerios and pasta for dinner. Usually they grab the snacks, like cheerios, first, but tonight they were grabbing the Harlan! The best part was when Pixel tried to shove a cheerio, a pasta spiral, and a lab block all in his mouth at once and run away. He didn’t get very far, but I wish I had a camera. When I went back to check on them 2 hours later all that was left in their dish was Mazuri. So I’m definitely glad I switched.

As a side note, I’m going to try to switch the gerbils over to the Harlan too. They seem less excited about it, but I think it will be healthier than the all seed diet they’re on now. I may not get them totally switched, but a balance of seeds and blocks would help.