She's in a one level enclosure Becky. Just keeping company with a few other females she's known all their lives (one is actually her last daughter by Casanova....the big black and white hooded female...Big Bertha, whose between litters). There's a nice young female in there too, Violet, whose growing up to be a breeder. Honey isn't truly content unless she's got a younger rat to mother on.

Do you remember Becky...HoneyChild was that silly weanling rat that couldn't figure out how to use the rat wheel I had back then. All the other females would play in it properly. Poor HC would stand upright beside it, madly spinning it with two front paws, then trying to hop it and it would stop. She'd try again, get it really going this time, add in one hind paw to help...then get spun off balance by the wheel since she was teetering on only one foot by this time. LMAO! Silly girl never did figure out how a rat wheel works but she sure knew how to be a good momma rat.

You know for a pet store girl she has done so very well. All the other females from back then eventually passed on. Only Honey and Casanova have just kept keeping on. That particular store did buy some rats from outside sources but a lot were actually ones they bred or private rat breeders brought them their extras so many Honey and Nova just have good genetics. I know they've never produced anything less than a perfect offspring and I remember you saying that some of their hooded babies were show quality looking. I know they aren't sibs as I bought them at different times but from the same private store.

Mike and I are checking on her 4 times a day minimum to see if anything significant changes but I'm reassured by your post that it should be okay to let her be for now and just provide a safe, loving place for her to spend these last weeks or months. I know I'm going to be broken up when the old girl passes on....she's really worked her way into my heart.