Posted in My Rats, ethics on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
A year ago yesterday I bought my first two girly rats - Treacle and Charlotte. A year on and I own 15 of them, have my own rat room, have been to a rat show, raised a litter and am planning on getting two more hooligans.
There is a thread on the NFRS forum about ratty wishes [...]
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, ethics on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Firstly, the definition of ethics: is the study of values and customs of a person or group. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility.
Obviously everyone has different ideas of right and wrong and different things are more important to some people than others. On [...]
Posted in ethics on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
There have been some really interesting posts crop up recently on both the NFRS forum and fancy-rats concerning breeding ethics and the disadvantages of certain varieties. I haven’t contributed to any of the threads, just read all the opinions slowly and carefully to learn from people’s views. I have been thinking about some of these [...]
