I'm not meaning to argue, but anyone can pedigree their rats and put them in a show, and call them show rats.

90% of the rats I see at east coast rat shows are feeders that are bred for feeders, a pretty one pops out, someone writes up a pedigree and calls it a fancy rat and asks $60 for it.
There were only, unfortunately, TWO people at the last show that had any rats that were worth a crap.

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