Hey folks, here's two new female rats I just picked up at our local private pet shop. Both are too young yet to breed but I'm always interested in properly identifying markings/colors on the rats.

The first is Squeekers (so named as she squeeked mournfully when getting her "you just came home from the pet store" bath). She's a capped rat I think but I'm not quite sure as I've never had one before.







This is the larger female, we named her Patches. She's a very odd sort of reddish brown with a darker, plainer brown hood and patches. I can't figure her out at all but she was so unique in the group of rats they had that I had to add her to our colony. She has dark ruby eyes like I've seen in my beige hooded rats. The last pic I took from above and it really shows off her odd color/pattern well. It's almost like she's a hooded rat but not white and another color but two tones of brown/red?????