Get your rat[s] out!

[RattieofCatan]

I like picture threads, I like rats. I know that there are other rat owners on here even so come share your ratties pictures, please!

Here are my seven. Ashi is the blue dumbo, he's a lone boy as he's epileptic and has other issues. The four girls are Aeryn (agouti), Zhaan (black rex), Oreo (almost black or dark agouti hooded, can't really tell with her) and Nibbles (silverfawn hooded).
The two big boys are Howl (chinchilla) and Haku (burmese).

Couldn’t agree more! My 6 girls have all been from pet shops and have become lovely and tame 😍

I think it’s about patience, and giving them time to come around. And obviously giving them plenty of rat hammocks to snuggle up in! I like the ones from these shops:

www.etsy.com/shop/spoiledrats
www.spoiledrathammocks.co.uk

Our ratty dynasty started with buying them from A Well Known Pet Shop. We started with 2 girls and a boy. Pregnancy quickly followed with one girl!

We looked into the genetics and realised that our one ratty boy couldn't produce dumbos as he didn't have the gene at all.

We then bought 2 more dumbos from A Well Known Pet Shop. Fuck me, these were so different. I'm sure they were from a different breeder. They were absilutely terrified of us. We had to put them through "ratty rehab"

Thankfully one of them responded really well and although she was never particularly warm to humans she had lovely babies and we still have her bloodline in our current rats.

We then bought a couple of males from a "breeder" in the NW. After buying we suspected he actually bred rats for snake food. (His phone nunber came up as "snake" when searched) The rats had been kept in plastic tubs prior to us buying them. We had to literally place them on the bars of the cage to show them how to climb.

TBH I wasn't too keen on them after we got them but now they've got through the hormonal aggression stage, they are lovely. Each has given us a lovely litter. One of them is a big fat fucker though, and it's really troubling to limit his food intake and not the others in the cage!