Unfortunatly all rats alive are illegal here. Asfs. Just sneak by. Gerbiles are also illegal.
Where is here? Usually it's the other way around.
Every time I start to catch up, I turn around and find babies! And last night while cleaning cages I found a pregnant asf and 2 norways are ready to pop. I want to eventually narrow things down to a 1.1 asf colony and focus on Norways since I only have a Sand Boa that won't eat small rats.
Id love to raise rats. Better for my big breeder females. But here in alberta canada we are supposidly rat free. Wild and tame... Which is a giant pile of ball crap.. Not like the rats stop at the provincial borders and say.."nope thats alberta..were not allowed there"
And gerbils get lumped into something else and are also illegal. Still sold in lots of stores but technicaly its an offense to posses them.
Burms and retics are also a no go.. And there fairly strick on that one.