a small web site devoted to my love and caring for rats
My experience with rats at first were just as a pet, and have now become alot more. My first rat was a soft yellow, and tan hooded. I named him MaxxxiMillion, (Maxxx for short) He lived to about maybe two years old and died suddenly of cancer. the next rat I bought was named Logan. He was also a hooded, but was larger than what you might find at a local pet store. He was black and white, and loved to play. The last rat I owned was DirtNap. He was a black silver. At full length before he passed away in his sleep, he was nearly 3 feet long tail and all.
At present I have 15 rats, all mature. Just this morning due to a mix up while cleaning cages, apparently one of the females was put into the cage with the males, and I now have 6 babies. 2 had died over the night and were cold. I buried them on a hill over looking a set of bushes and trees. The strange thing is that I never named any of the last litter, save for one red eyed albino male--Snowball, and the father to these...Gandolf.
Somehow recently, I managed to get the males mixed up, and a female got into the cage with the males. One night as I was on the internet I heard chirping, as it was 4 am I knew it wasn't birds, so I looked in the cage.
Low and behold did I find a female guarding 8 babies!!! two had died I later found out, and later another disappeared. So now I have yet another little of 5, and they are so adorable now. they have their eyes open , and are jumping all over the cage. I'll keep everyone updated, and try to get pix of these lovelies.
IF ANYONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANY OF MY "CHILDREN" LET ME KNOW AT THE EMAIL BELOW, AND PERHAPS IF YOU ARE IN MY AREA, WE CAN MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
BELOW ARE SOME OTHER RATTY LINKS YOU MAY FIND INTERESTING