Back in June I picked up a trio of rats (a male hairless, a female dumbo Siamese and dumbo Himalayan) and figured I'd be all set for the time being. Well I was in Petco the next day looking around and for some reason I decided to look at their rats although I wasn't expecting much other than albinos, blacks, and hoodeds. However they had this female that had an odd coat.
It's sort of fluffy and wavy and looks almost mangy. I decided to grab her and figured another female couldn't hurt.

Well today her first litter has opened its eyes a d while checking them out during cleaning I discovered that half of them have curly coats as well!

I guess she's proved out not to just be a mangy rat but a Rex. May not seem like much but I found this cool so I thought I would post it. She's also throwing out some silver babies which I also find cool. I'm still learning as far as rat colors and such but I'm finding it to be extremely interesting. I'll probably be keeping back one of the silver Rexs and see what other oddities I can get to start popping up.