Rat Diet: Weight Management and Condition

By Alison Campbell

Do you struggle to maintain your rats at a healthy weight? Are they squishy and lazy, or do they struggle to put weight on? Either way, “Rat diet: weight maintenance and condition” will help you to feed your rats and keep them well nourished, but lean and fit. There’s a full discussion of scatter feeding that addresses FAQ, and new content around the details of feeding wet food as a means to weight loss. The section on condition has also expanded, taking a closer look at how to support rats who are about to undergo stress, such as, showing, travelling, moving home, or meeting new friends. You’ll find to how diet is directly related to condition, plus how to “read” your rat’s coat and tail as indicators that there could be something wrong. A helpful read for anyone who wants to keep their pet rats in tip top shape and condition.

The Scuttling Gourmet Series are ebooks produced from sections of the original book, with enhancements such as links to other articles, new content and direct links to purchase recommended food items. This is the 4th book in the series and covers chapters 9 and 10.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alison Campbell
• Release date: Sep 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370544981

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 4

Rat Diet: Weight management and condition

Alison Campbell

Copyright 2016 Alison Campbell

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Published by Shunamite Publishing

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Preface

This ebook represents a new era for The Scuttling Gourmet, which was first published in 2003 and is now in its fourth edition. The book still offers a comprehensive guide to wholesome nutrition for rats, and at the moment (2016), is only 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 have decided to create a series of ebooks. My intention is to digitalize the print version of the book, in order to make it more accessible abroad, and for those who simply prefer this format. The plan is for a series of 7 ebooks which will together encompass most of the material contained in The Scuttling Gourmet, plus added extras, such as links to extra information and suppliers. This is book three and the rest should be published throughout 2016.

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Table of Contents

Table of contents

Introduction

Weight management

Weight reduction diet

Scatter feeding

Diet to promote weight gain

Feeding for condition

References

About the author

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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