Posted in Behaviour, Breeding, Healthcare, My Rats on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
…. escaping that is! She has learnt that she can jump up high enough to clear the perspex on the other end of the dividing wall and get up the wall the same way she got up the other end. She’s a monster, but i’m also so proud of her - she’s obviously very clever [...]
Posted in Breeding, Healthcare, My Rats, Rescue on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I weighed the babies yesterday, just as a matter of interest. They were eight weeks old on Thursday and the boys especially are getting really big. The girls aren’t growing nearly as much, i’m hoping this is normal. So, at 8 weeks, 1 day, fatty ratties weigh:
Boys:
Rupert (black hoody, keeping) - 329g
Jools (black hoody, keeping) [...]
Posted in Breeding, Healthcare, My Rats, Rescue on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I am pleased to say Tinkerbell and Sugar both came round fine from their spay and seem to be doing fine. They were eating and drinking as soon as they got home and were even cuddled up together!
They were being ever so cute together - Sugar was led over Tinks, guarding her like she did [...]
Posted in Breeding, My Rats, Rescue, ethics on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
My third tale of weekend woe is technically my first, as it all started last Sunday - however, it was only a potential tale of woe last weekend, it was confirmed as such this Sunday….
But first…. last Sunday I went out to the rat room to find two out of the six baby boys in [...]
Posted in Breeding, My Rats, Rescue, Videos, photographs on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
There are still three baby girls looking for a forever home. They are now six and a half weeks old so are able to go their new home now. There are two champagne hoodies and a mink hoody. The mink girl is a bit shy but the other two are mad little hooligans that don’t [...]
The babies are growing up so quick. They are rats but in miniature and completely mental. I am amazed constantly at how fast they whizz about everywhere and every so often all of them go nuts all at the same time and race around and chase and jump on each other - it’s brilliant.
The ones [...]
Posted in Breeding, Housing, My Rats, Rescue on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel like a horrible person today - the baby rats have been removed from Sugar and split into boys and girls. I know they’re old enough and it needs to be done to prevent more rats needing homes, but I just keep thinking of those baby boys that can never play with their sisters [...]
Posted in Breeding, Housing, My Rats, Rescue on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I did another vid of the rat babies today - Baby rats. That’s what happens when the door opens on their cage.
It is an excellent vid showing how friendly they are. Just after I stopped filming, one of the girls fell off my arm and went under the chest of drawers. I could see her under there [...]
Posted in Breeding, My Rats, Rescue, Videos on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are the links for the three baby rat vids, as promised. Hope you enjoy them
Baby rats playing (3.5 wks old) #1
Baby rats playing (3.5 wks old) #2
Baby rats playing (3.5 wks old) #3
Posted in Breeding, My Rats, Rescue on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s getting harder and harder to get decent photos of these rats - they are just so quick. I tried to get some nice ones of them on the window sill in natural light, but it’s pretty grey out and they’ve come out all blurry, so I resorted to using the flash while they were [...]
