Got to love them rats...I picked up two select rats from work tonight. More than $25 a week on rats to feed my snakes is getting quite straining on the pocketbook, so I figured I can easily lessen the strain by breeding a few of my own.

The pair's cage is a roomy 40 breeder for the time being, because it wasn't used for anything else. Eventually I will move them all over to the lab style caging. But these two will remain in a tank to be pets first and foremost.

Names for these two came quite easily. Since I'm intrigued by Japanese history and culture I named the female Inari, which means Goddess of food (provider of feeder ratties )...and the male is of course named Splinter because I'm quite obsessed with TMNT (Raphael *the redfoot* has his master!), another reason for his name is for the splinter shaped marking on his head...plus he just looks so wise.

Pictures...
Splinter:




and Inari: (Hooded Markings)





These two should make for some interesting looking babies eventually.

-Jason