Meet My Pet Rats

The past couple of months I have been doing a lot of reading about rat food and learning what’s best for the ratties. There’s a lot of bad info out there, and a lot of terrible commercial food! I can’t believe pet food companies get away with selling such nutritionally poor food.

I’ve decided the way I’m going to go is with the Mazuri lab blocks and add in about 25% fresh “people” foods. The reason I want most of the diet to be lab block is because I know it’s nutritionally complete. I’d be worried about mixing my own food and not meeting those needs. And from what I’ve read, Mazuri is the second best lab block (after Harlan Teklad, which would be difficult to get). I also picked up some all natural granola, whole grain cereal, and pasta spirals. Plus we always have fruits and apple sauce around the house. I’ll probably get some frozen fruits/veggies to keep around, too. I want to work in some meat, but that’ll depend on how often we have something suitable in the house. I know a lot of people use dog food, so maybe I can try that to work in extra protein. Does anyone visiting my blog have suggestions?

Only a few more days until I go pick them up!