Is black(or other color) frozen rat normal?

[alice40604345]

I second Perfect Prey being a good place to purchase from. I can't vouch for their rats, but the mice I got from them were all uniform in size and didn't have any feces stuck on them. (I don't know if that is a normal occurrence, but the mice I bought from a reptile expo had feces and pee frozen onto them.) They also have really good customer service and helped me when Fedex caused a shipping error.

Thank you so much! Yeah the mice I bought from two different reptile expos long ago also have the same problem!!

[Bogertophis]

Thank you so much lol!!! I was so surprised when I find a pure black one inside the white rats bag lol!!! It seems so interesting to me that there are actually so many colors!!!

There are actually shows (like the reptile expos) for breeders of fancy rats & mice...it's more of a "thing" in the U.K. I think? I used to have a book about all that too,
but I've never actually attended such events. (I keep picturing dog shows, where the handler trots around the arena with their dog to demonstrate their conformation,
& imagining someone doing that with their rat on a lead...) As pets, rats can even be affectionate, & they're quite social & trainable, so if I went to a rat show, I'd
probably "cave" & come home with a pet...

[distaff]

Hahahaha yeah!!! I know it's almost impossible that people will catch a wild one to sell but ... I know it seems stupid but ...I just can't stop worrying what if it is....and thinking why there's a pure black one while everyone else is white lol? Then I told myself I have to ask it here to eliminate my concern before I fed this black one! And I today I find that I almost run out of rats of this size except for the black one and probably two others lol!

In my experience, wild rats are brown, not black. Black is one of the "fancy" colors. I lost a favorite black rat recently. Midnight was fine one day, and dead the next.

I have an oddly marked hooded rat, a grey one, and several hairless rats.

[Bogertophis]

In my experience, wild rats are brown, not black. Black is one of the "fancy" colors. I lost a favorite black rat recently. Midnight was fine one day, and dead the next.

I have an oddly marked hooded rat, a grey one, and several hairless rats.

"Black rats" aka "roof rats" aka "ship rats" (wild) are black & have a lighter build, while "Norway rats" (wild) are brown (appears as mostly brownish) & heavier-bodied.

The black "fancy" rats sold as pets are often a pure black color, & many have fancy white markings too. I'm sorry you lost Midnight so suddenly. Rats are good
pets but usually only live a couple years at most, & they can get all sorts of things (which is why they're often "lab animals" too). I think the black ones are pretty too!