My Adventures in Rat Breeding

[Paty]

It can be both My breeders are all named and loved on. They have HUGE cages, lots of toys, get lots of treats, and are fed an organic diet. They get free range time out of their cage, come when called and are just awesome pets. I socialize each litter, and sell quite a few as pets, the rest of the babies end up snake chow.

I played with that idea for less than a second. It's hard to find live rats the size my ball eats.
BUT, I used to have them as pets:
Mousie: agouti dumbo with a white belly
Cheese: blue hooded standard
I loved them. Mousie passed away from a tumor in her abdomen while I was out of the country. Cheese got a new companion named Stinky (because she peed on me on the way home), a black hooded standard. Eventually, Cheese passed away from a tumor in her knee which immobilized her entire left back leg. I didn't want to keep having to get "companions" so I gave Stinky to a lady who had two little kids and they renamed her Ruby and kept her until she passed.

They were some of my first real pets when I was about 16 years old. Alot of the rats I buy for my Ball now, look just like Stinky so I'm already praying that he would just eat frozen ones but he's 11 and too picky 😔
I could never keep one for longer than 2 hours and not tear up a little when they "go".

Is there a trick to this that I don't know about? 🙁

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