My first breeders!

[onebreitgirl]

I am with you on the dalmatians! I want some too, but no luck

[littleindiangirl]

Uh oh... Baby pics! They JUST opened their eyes today.



And a few other pics I liked for good measure.








Bunch of girls being moved during cleaning day (excuse my head o' hair)

[stangs13]

Gack....Connie, is that a dumbo siamese I seee in the last pic?!?! I want I want!!! I also like the rat that is in the middle of the beige and the black babie in the first pic.

[littleindiangirl]

Himalayan dumbo!

[onebreitgirl]

Cuteness!!!

[SlitherinSisters]

I am with you on the dalmatians! I want some too, but no luck

No kidding! I'm having no luck at all.....

Uh oh... Baby pics! They JUST opened their eyes today.

Great pictures! Soooo cute!

[Argentra]

Ok... first off, GREAT post there Joanna! I totally agree...people anthropomorphise their pets WAY too often and then get all worked up when you try to keep the natural order.
I have kept rats as pets before and adore them...but have no compunction feeding them off to my beloved snakes. Why? Because it's nature. I talk to my animals on a regular basis, but not stupid baby talk...I do it to soothe and calm them, since it's the TONE not the words that count. Yes, even with snakes, but then it's the vibration.
People are nuts. They either feel the need to destroy and dominate all creatures because 'humans are superior' OR they have to turn the animals into tiny humans to justify their love for them! Mega sigh! Why the heck can't people just accept the other life forms of this world and get on with it?? Sorry...personal peeve of mine.

Connie - those little ones are SWEET! I love that little blue on the brown fabric, and the cream hooded and Himalayan dumbo are adorable!

Isis - that Halloween story is Precious! I love freaking out the parents probably more than the kids. I'll have to try something like that one year...

[stangs13]

Himalayan dumbo!

Gah. Uber cuteness for sure. I want one

[SlitherinSisters]

Isis - that Halloween story is Precious! I love freaking out the parents probably more than the kids. I'll have to try something like that one year...

Oh it was great fun! You could hear the kids begging their moms for a pet rat!

I even had one lady that acutally RAN away from our house and across the street

[frankykeno]

I remember years ago (far to many to publically admit to) when I was single. I had a couple of female rats as pets. Normally I'd take them out in the morning for some attention. One of them liked to hang out in the pocket of my terry cloth robe, her sister liked to sit on my shoulder.

Well I had forgotten the cable guy was due to arrive to install the cable for my tv that morning and when the doorbell went off I just never thought of my little rattie buddies. I guess I nearly gave the poor guy a heart attack when he's standing there discussing my cable installation and two inquisitive rats come out to check him out - one from my pocket, one from underneath my long hair! LOL

It all turned out well actually as once he got over his initial shock, he mentioned that his own sister had rats as pets when they were kids.