RIP Pooh

Omg "rat college" hahahahahaha! Okay I'm for sure using that if Mikey ever notices we actually have baby rats in the laundry room (seems even the youngest male in this house is naturally allergic to my laundry room!).

You can always let the kids play with the breeder adult rats Christie and then just say the babies grew up and moved away or errrr...went to college! LOL


~~Jo~~

That's a maybe... I also have a fear I might get attached to all of the babies. :stupidme: I'm thinking of trying mice first, because I don't have any sentimental feelings for those little boogers...mostly. ;)

I loved my last rats, but they may intimidate my daughter. Maybe we'll go look at the pet store tomorrow and see if I can persuade her rats are cool. :D

i remeber my first family pet Lenny ( a short haired goldne beauty that enjoyed nipping fingers) my dad wasnt gonna let us get an pets ( both my 'rents are really anti pets dont even ask how i managed to get Monty!) but we convinced him to lets us get him and he lived with us for just over 3 years and even once survived a 12 hour car ride from toronto to new york when we moved.


he also died from old age. it was a huge loss to us and the was the only other pet in the house ever other than Monty

my condolences on losing your little hammie. i had one of the few very sweet hamsters and just loved her to pieces. still haven't managed to get a replacement after several years of her being gone, but now i have the rats so that kind of counts i suppose. if you start out with a baby rat i doubt your daughter would be intimidated. the babies still small and too cute for their own good!

Thanks.

My daughter is strange. She loves the animals but is even intimidated by the crestie!! She likes to pet, but not hold. I would love to get a dumbo rat! I love those guys. They're so adorable. Maybe...... :D

You should talk to Becky then Christie. She's got the insider info on specialty rat breeders and has some of the cutest pet rats I've ever seen!


~~Jo~~

And so the gauntlet is thrown down . . .

I'll have to get some pics of our cuter feeders :P

Show me the rats!! :psychotic

Here's one of our newer females that is slated to become a breeder. She's a black and white capped rat with some dalmationing down her back and constantly bruxs loudly. Hence her name is Gabby LOL and I'm sure her cagemates just roll their ratttie eyes and call her "that HAPPY RAT!" :P

Merry Christmas from Gabby & the rest of the rat colony!
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...GabbySanta.jpg


~~Jo~~

oh i just figured out to handle my situation... oh this is priceless... IF i decide to breed rats... i can perhaps pursuade my friend who has a male rat to bring him over for a "play date" once in a while and then i can just keep a female!

oh ya, oh ya... aleesha's thinkin, oh ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :winner: