Got one ready to pop any day now...

I sell pets to friends/family. $5 for a pet rat. I don't have enough surplus to sell to pet stores right now.

April, I think you mean variegated or variberk. Rats have no such granite patterns that I know of. They aren't hooded with granite on their sides, but rather they are either variegated or variberk. Cookie IMO is a wedge-blazed husky, and Lucky is probably an English Irish(the two markings blended).

Here's a picture of my American Blue variegated dumbo female, Mistyk(spaz!).
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2...pretty10hl.jpg

I only have one berkshire but she is a double blue(silver blue) so you can't really tell anyway.

I said granite as it was what comes to mind when I look at them.. they all have white bellies and white feet.. and siblings are all hooded or berkie. Mom is a hooded with a blaze and dad is normal hooded.

becky that female is just the cutest little thing! she looks so meek in that pic, funny that she is a spaz in real life! :P

She's cute but will give you a run for your money. And get this... She's even registered with the NARR and pedigreed...Weirdo rat.. She griped, moaned and whined while I clipped her toenails the other day. SCREAM! scream? ScReAM!!! LoL

Rats sure can scream when they want to! Nail trimming sure is a pain.

Hey April you might want to try my little trick so I don't have to trim nails at all. Just pop into Home Depot or Lowe's or any building supply place. Grab a couple of nice rough plain building bricks (not the pretty paving ones as they are sorta slick and "finished"). I think I paid all of .59 cents each for mine. Just put them where the rats will have to climb on or over them to get to their sleeping area or food or whatever. Bingo, claws get worn down pretty nicely. I just use a stiff old wire brush to clean off the bricks once in awhile (an old bbq brush thingy).

Oh and the female with the litter is doing great and I've got another one in her maternity tank with a very big belly developing so should be another litter born within I think about 3 days more or less.

~~Jo~~

Jo - I don't bother nail trimming mine.. considering I have over 60 now anyway. lol I have used rough rocks in the past but found them to dirty too easily.

Oh sorry confused.....thought when you said nail trimming was a pain, you were indicating you were trimming your breeder's nails or something LOL.


~~Jo~~

Oh, I didn't specify that I was helping my cousin clip her pet rat's nails.