Rat Diet: Feeding for Health, Prevention and Treatment

By Alison Campbell

Rat Diet: Feeding for health, prevention and treatment, is the second E-book in The Scuttling Gourmet Series. It is based on a portion of The Scuttling Gourmet but with enhancements. This book is perfect for anyone interested in feeding their pet rats in a way that will enhance their health, reduce the risk of common rat ailments, or treat these should they occur. It takes a detailed look at practical ways of maintaining health and weight throughout life, before discussing the prevention and treatment of a number of specific illnesses, including kidney disease, tumours, diabetes and hind leg degeneration (HLD). The whole premise is that diet and methods of feeding throughout life, can affect both well-being and health. If you want to know how best to feed your rats, in order to help them to stay healthy, remain a good weight - or support treatment of an illness they are experiencing - this book is for you.

Find answers to questions like:
Should I feed my rats ad lib - always topping up their food bowl?
What's the best way to feed groups of rats to keep them at a healthy weight?
Can specific elements of the diet help prevent illness?
My rat's already developed health issues. Can diet help them?
My sick rat is dehydrated. How can I make sure his fluid needs are met?
I have to give my rats some medicine. How do I do this?

Alison Campbell has researched and written widely on the subject of rat nutrition over the past 15 years. Her book, The Scuttling Gourmet, is now in its 4th edition and is widely recommended by experienced rat keepers. This ebook is based on a portion of The Scuttling Gourmet, with enhancements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alison Campbell
• Release date: Sep 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370243198

Alison Campbell

I have three true passions in this life: I am an information sponge. I love to learn and - just as eagerly - love to grow. I am enchanted by words and have always written - even as a young child I was a poet. I want to help other people to expand themselves - nurturing is a big part of who I am. It's an inevitable then, that I should find myself after years of nursing, home educating and running a dog care business, considering ever-increasingly, that what I am, is an author. Inevitable also, that by far the majority of what I write is non-fiction expansion material. Currently this centres very much around rats, dogs and running a small business. I also - in my best moments - am still a poet. My life is currently very fluid. I do own a house in the UK, which is currently rented, and at the moment I live in my motorhome, usually somewhere in the North of England. I did this to escape the treadmill we all so easily slip onto in this busy life, and to apply the principles of minimalism and essentialism to my life. Although I still run the dog care business from wherever I am, and still do some hands-on work in that regard, most of my work time is now taken up with writing. If not writing, you might find me cooking, walking, enjoying the people I love, in an atmospheric pub drinking whisky or real ale, watching Liverpool play, listening to Audible or helping out on my sister's smallholding.

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The Scuttling Gourmet Series 2

Rat Diet: Feeding for health, prevention and treatment

Alison Campbell

Copyright 2016 Alison Campbell

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Shunamite Publishing

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Feeding for health

In sickness and in health

Feeding sick rats

References

About the author

Make contact with Alison Campbell

Preface

This ebook represents a new era for The Scuttling Gourmet, first published in 2003 and now in its fourth edition. The book still offers a current, comprehensive guide to wholesome nutrition for rats but at the moment (2016), is only widely available in hard copy. As part of my current regeneration of the old Shunamite Rats breeding site, into the new online home of The Scuttling Gourmet and all things pertinent to rat nutrition, enrichment and well-being, I decided to create a series of ebooks. The current plan, is for a series of 6 to 8 ebooks which will together encompass most of the material contained in The Scuttling Gourmet, plus added extras. This is book two and the rest should be published throughout 2016.

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Introduction

Rat nutrition is a wide-ranging subject, with many opinions and ideas as to what is best to feed your rats. While the book – The Scuttling Gourmet – aims to offer an all embracing look at rat nutrition, here, we are focussing down on only one aspect of feeding rats – for health and the prevention and treatment of specific illnesses. This ebook offers practical advice on feeding all rats a healthy diet, including methods of feeding that will help maintain fitness and weight throughout life. It also covers a range of common rat ailments that have links too diet and considers ways of reducing the likelihood of these occurring, as well as how to use diet to help with treatment once problems occur.

With this in mind there will be many natural gaps in the information given here, for instance, I refer to scatter feeding and the soya debate here, but not in detail. If you are keen to put the information in the book into a wider context, or come across a concept, which is brushed over here, then I would encourage you to check out the growing archive of information on The Scuttling Gourmet website. The forthcoming ebooks in this series will build a more complete picture.

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