Rats are a genus of rodents of family of mice. They for a long time became favourites and friends of people. It is worth taking their special fertility into account. And if you hold individuals of various floor, then sooner or later they will bring forth offspring. At once there is a question: "How to learn about pregnancy of a rat?". Will help to define it several signs given below.
Instruction
1. About approach of pregnancy at rats speaks lack of the next techka. It is the most objective sign.
2. Look at behavior of the pet. Already at the very beginning of pregnancy the behavior of rats changes. They become slow and quieter. Some individuals can aggressively begin to concern a male.
3. Look at a rat. At pregnancy she becomes slightly roundish, the stomach slightly increases, becoming more widely around edges. Eventually contours of a little body of a female change. It to become a pear-shaped form (sharp muzzle and the extending stomach). Especially well changes are noticeable when the rat gets up on hinder legs.
4. You can feel a paunch of your pet. It is worth doing it in 2-3 weeks from the estimated, but not begun techka. By this time it has to increase considerably. And if to touch a tummy of a female shortly before childbirth, then it is possible to feel movements of future infant rats. However at the females covered for the first time it is not recommended to do it.
5. Pay attention that having become pregnant, the rat begins to equip strongly and carefully the dwelling. It is necessary to enclose pieces of fabric, paper, a dry grass in a cage. From this the rat will construct a nest. Do not disturb and do not try to iron her at such important point. You risk to be scratched and bitten.