Nice!
I'd picked up four rats to breed for feeders... and ended up having to put two of them down for bad RI. They were filthy when I got them, from the only pet store I could find that sold rats. Then I got four more, when I found another place that had rats... and one of them was so sick I put him down the day after I got home. So now I'm at four girls and one boy - but one of the girls in the second batch was already pregnant. I isolated her, because the other rats were picking on her, and figured she had a week or two before she birthed. Shows how much I know. Two days later I had at least eleven pinkies in her cage.
Now I'm impatiently waiting to see what colors they will be! I'm hoping for a blue boy or two to raise up as companions for the one male I've got left, but I doubt I'll get any blues. Helga is a big, husky solid black girl, with a kind of dopey attitude. She sleeps lumped up like a meatloaf in her food dish, with her head dangling off the side, and chitters when I tickle her sides. Some of her pinks are already starting to show dark pigmentation.
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