ok , let me give yall the set up first . one of the guys that works with me at the petshop also works at a local shipyard . he and his crew were cleaning up some old tin sheets at the ship yard when a large female warf rat ran out of the pile . my coworker found a newborn litter of warf rats in the pile and brought them into the petshop . we put them in with one of our nursing females and not only did they survive , but they have flurished . we now have 2 male and one female warf rats that are about two and a half months old . right now we dont know what spiecies of rats these are , but Don ( the ship yard worker ) says that he sees them as big as cats at the shipyard .

now , what i'm wanting to know is , what do yall think of putting these rats with some of our breeding stock and trying to get them to mate with them ? this is something we have been discussing at the petshop but we arent sure if it will work or not .

i'll get some pics on tuesday when i work at the petshop next and post them here so yall can see what they look like .

any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated .