From reading your message posted on here I am hoping you can help me. My female just had her second litter and pushed one of them aside after she was only a week old. I called the pet store here in town to find out what we could do and she told us that she had never heard of a mother rat doing that and that usually mom will kill it instead of pushing it aside. She also told us to feed it milk with water??? This doesn't sound right. Please help us as we don't want to lose this little one who my children have named Sweetheart! Thanks