so....how old is yours?

[Bruce Whitehead]

Loft Lizard that pic of your loft is amazing. What is your avatar? Everytime I see it I wonder what it is, a rat going to heaven?

Thanks for that... my av is a portrait of my rat Ginger. She was a free-range rat that we had. She just recently passed away.

When I got her she was supposed to be a breeder rat, but she ended up being the most abyssmal parent ever. She would not even pull the pups out.

I took a day off from work for both of her litters. The painting is her redmeption. Rats die in walls in urban settings, and no one even knows their existance. So the painting is "Ginger Listening to Dead Babies"... and it is her communicating with her dead babies.

Jerome, the artist, and my partner, draws bloodlines as means of communication, so the bloodlines are her way of communicating with her dead babes, and the floral filligrees are life and growth.

Oddly though, her lack of rat social skills made her the best pet ever. People that have never been in our space do not believe that we had a free-range rat, but she was the best. We had water bottles throughout the loft for her, and she went back to her cage to eat.

Mostly she spent her time sleeping behind paintings and hoarding food in closests.

Thanks for asking,
Bruce

PS: There were 3 portraits painted of her, but we only have the one left, and it is part of our permanent art collection.

PPS: Not a hijack.

[Bruce Whitehead]

addendum:

The model with her unfinished piece...

[ama1997]

My oldest male is 17 maybe 17 1/2 I got him in 93 and he was about 2 years old then. I don't really have a length on him. But hes 2093g That was on 6/1/08
This is the only picture of him I could find. Ill have to see if I can get a newer one of him. One that shows how long he is too.

[Sonya610]

Thanks for that... my av is a portrait of my rat Ginger. She was a free-range rat that we had. She just recently passed away.

Thank you for posting a bigger picture, the avatar pic is so tiny its hard to see what is going on. Even in tiny form it seemed as if it must have a special meaing. It also must be nice to have a beautiful portrait to remind you of her.

[bradabolics]

Here's a couple pics of my girl...Commodus..

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k.../snakes038.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...commodus18.jpg

And Stilletto, my baby female bci...

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k.../snakes016.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k.../snakes008.jpg

[starmom]

Thanks for that... my av is a portrait of my rat Ginger. She was a free-range rat that we had. She just recently passed away.

When I got her she was supposed to be a breeder rat, but she ended up being the most abyssmal parent ever. She would not even pull the pups out.

I took a day off from work for both of her litters. The painting is her redmeption. Rats die in walls in urban settings, and no one even knows their existance. So the painting is "Ginger Listening to Dead Babies"... and it is her communicating with her dead babies.

Jerome, the artist, and my partner, draws bloodlines as means of communication, so the bloodlines are her way of communicating with her dead babes, and the floral filligrees are life and growth.

Oddly though, her lack of rat social skills made her the best pet ever. People that have never been in our space do not believe that we had a free-range rat, but she was the best. We had water bottles throughout the loft for her, and she went back to her cage to eat.

Mostly she spent her time sleeping behind paintings and hoarding food in closests.

Thanks for asking,
Bruce

PS: There were 3 portraits painted of her, but we only have the one left, and it is part of our permanent art collection.

PPS: Not a hijack.

Thank you so much for sharing that Bruce. I really like the story, the meaning and the inspiration. I am touched.

[ChicaPiton519]

Akua is 3, i have had him for 2.5 years he is my oldest ball python, well atleast i believe he is... idk how old my girls are...

[moravaguy]

keep em comin

[moravaguy]

My oldest male is 17 maybe 17 1/2 I got him in 93 and he was about 2 years old then. I don't really have a length on him. But hes 2093g That was on 6/1/08
This is the only picture of him I could find. Ill have to see if I can get a newer one of him. One that shows how long he is too.

i really like your boy there hes beautiful

[TanyaL]

We have had Foster since December. I don't know exactly how old she is but she was fairly young when we got her. And, we will have her until it's her time to go (or ours, whichever comes first). We don't believe in getting a pet unless it's for the long haul.