With the recent birth of our first megacolon rat, we've removed Lighting from the breeding rotation and "promoted" him and one of his yet-unweaned healthy sons to pet status. As soon as sonny boy is weaned, he and dad Lightning will be installed in a nice big enclosure in Mikey's room to live out their lives as pets.

Lightning and the kid (as yet unnammed)....


What a face!...


He's got an interesting color to him, quite brown but not agouti yet his face is a totally different shade than his body markings...almost brown/grey (hard to see in this pic but obvious in the one above)....quite odd and I've not a clue what to call it LOL (hey Becky...any ideas???)...