poor Garbo.

Garbo got some food stuck in her throat last night :/
it hasn't happened before (or if it has - I haven't seen it) and it was actually really scary :/
she started drooling and gagging.
Robert - as the good dad that he is - went immediately online to look for answers and I busted out the rat book to see if there was anything about it (since we didn't know at first what was going on)

turns out that rats are built very differently than us so they can't "truly" choke.
usually getting food stuck in the throat won't interfere with their breathing so there's really nothing you can do when a rat gets food stuck in its throat.
also gagging and drooling are the two things that will tell you that there's food stuck in its throat.

all we could do was pet her and make sure she felt safe. we let her roam around freely without closed doors for a little bit and when she went back in the cage and laid down she seemed to feel better :) Nixon came and took care of her by licking the drool off of her chin :D

a few minutes later Garbo was out and about in the cage and eating food and being her alert self :)

she really scared us for a moment!