My Adventures in Rat Breeding

[voodoolamb]

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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Ask the place you buy from for the ugly jerk rats?

I sometimes have trouble too. I have a cage of rats all named "Notty" as in "Not Food!"

Last week I tried to drop one into the tub of my live feeder and the little bugger held on for dear life and started kissing my hand. Sooooo he went back to the colony. Notty XI.