Rat-pet-breeder male:)

Well, turns out, the little "girl" rat I wanted to keep as a pet, is a male. :) I am elated; I needed a new breeder male for my feeder colony, and he is it. He was recently weaned, and so I have started handling him as more of a pet than just a breeder.. so here he is..
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...mes/inhand.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...mes/rattee.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/ratagain.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ttleratt-1.jpg
He loved the drink-holder on our cooler!
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...mes/coolor.jpg
I don;t care if you love rats or hate them; you can't say that this is not cute! :
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/cuterat1.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/cuteness.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ames/cuute.jpg

oh my goodness my eye ball are falling out of my head in love with that rattie!!!!!

tooooooo cute. amazing how you just happen to keep that little girl eh?

congrats!!!!!

Whadda cutie! I love the in the holder shots.

Thanks!
I did think he was a girl Aleesh; but nope!
Would you think he is a dumbo? Also, for any rattie color experts, what color is he? Beige?

looks like a dumbo to me... a smart dumbo but a dumbo nonetheless :rofl:

and beige sounds good to me although i know nothing about colours :P

Yeah, his late daddy was a blue dumbo.. he almost has this weird lavender tinge to his coat.. at any rate, he's a keeper! I expressly told Mark NOT to feed this guy off.. :)

He's a cutie and definitely looks to be a dumbo eared rat. As far as color it's so hard to say from the pics hon but with that coat color and the red eyes...maybe a champagne? I get a ton of champagnes born in our colony. Have a look through the pics at this link, maybe that will help.

http://www.afrma.org/ratselfs.htm

Are his eyes a true red or more of a ruby red? I was wondering about blue-beige but they have dark ruby eyes and his appear to be red. Nice thing is he will be recessive for blue so you can get that color back in your colony if you like it.

That's great news; I love the blue color. :)

He looks more like a Siamese . I can see dark points on his ears unless its just the pic. If he was born with points he is Siam and if he is just now getting them he is a Himi.
Or neither if its just shadow from the flash. I looked at the pics agian, that is 100% a Siamese. He will lose the beigy look as he gets older and keep the dark points.
Very cute :)

He's such a cute little button-rat.

Yep he'd be a 100% het for blue since his daddy was a blue hon so bred to a blue female or a female who had a blue parent, you'll get blues at some point (as much as I understand the blue genetics of rats LOL). The only problem I've heard with blues is that they became so popular in the pet trade so suddenly that you see a lot of them that are extremely inbred and have genetic illnesses/weaknesses and problems with temperment.

Thought you might like to see. This is crash before he passed away. He was a mink point Siamese.
<br> http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7...h/Dscf0162.jpg
And Blue Man Ferdanan My A Blue dumbo rex boy <br>
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7...u/Dscf0037.jpg

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Originally Posted by SeraphimScum

He looks more like a Siamese . I can see dark points on his ears unless its just the pic. If he was born with points he is Siam and if he is just now getting them he is a Himi.
Or neither if its just shadow from the flash. I looked at the pics agian, that is 100% a Siamese. He will lose the beigy look as he gets older and keep the dark points.
Very cute :)

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Awesome; I love Siamese. He looks to have darker fur along his topline.. his demeanor is just so cool; no fear at all, just curiousity about everything!

That is one freakin cute rat!!!! :oops:

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Originally Posted by SeraphimScum

Thought you might like to see. This is crash before he passed away. He was a mink point Siamese.
<br> http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7...h/Dscf0162.jpg

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I think that my little guy will definately mature to have those colors.

well.. he turned out to be a she! I am still keeping her as a future breeder and working on hand-taming (which she loves) but no thingies "dropped" and she is definately not a male.. :)