I came home tonight to find Trevor dead.

He is my babe from Pepper and Maurice. Sweetest little Agouti Berkie and a breeding machine like his dad.

Gentle with his females, covers them multiple times, and a great co-parent. He was just over 14 months so no idea what happened, but it was a heart breaker.

He was promoted as he had great genetics, his parents are both 5th generation offspring of mine, and were the quintessential good mom and good dad poster rats.

AND... he escapted at 5 weeks of age and lived in my loft for 3 months till I could catch him, so by the time I got him he was too big to feed off. I would be up late working and would always see him running along the wall out of the corner of my eyes.

Crazy rat!!!

Just a really nice rat and he will be missed.

Ironically enough, I held back his last 3 daughters as future breeders, so stupidly I take a bit of solace in that.

Bruce