Mrs. Boy actin a foo during intros. She wasn’t moving or visibly breathing. Turns out she was just conked out. Rats acting dead should be illegal

Meet Zwinka, our little surprise baby, who decided that unlike her sisters, she had no intention of growing past the adorable baby stage.

She's less than half the size of her siblings, but she makes up for it with extra agility and boundless energy!

Pinky loves me and Pebble thinks im the most annoying ape on the face of the Earth but thats ok because she’s very cute.

Gouda's never let me do this before.

And before anyone asks "where's Jeff?"

He did his own thing while the other's got their photos taken, I have some pictures of what he was up to if anyone is interested in seeing that.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with this years photos. I let all the rats onto my bed and just took photos whenever they went close to or inside of the pumpkin 🎃 I most likely do another little session with just the older boys yesterday, because they were the ones who actually went into the pumpkin and seemed relaxed and like they were having fun

Yeh idk anymore, Jeff is a special little.. Creature?

(Can we get a petition started to get Jeff his own flair? I suggest "Cr*ckhead hour" or "Zero thoughts" as the name)

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This is mostly a joke, i don't expect to get a flair made for any of my rats

New free roam area for the girls! One already figured out she can jump out…time to order more panels

Can you believe such an innocent, pure creature could do something so devastating?

I've been finding shreds of the seam all over the place even days later.

That is all.

Okay, so my Coco is NEVER still when i let her out and im kinda freaking out

Peanut is such a perfect little peanut.

Regarding Hazel's head tilt from my last post; shes completely fine. My vet was on vacation so I couldn't get her in until today, but he did a pretty thorough work up on her and shes basically just old 😭😭 she did get put on an antibiotic and an anti inflammatory just in case the infection was hiding.

But because of how severe her tilt is, she has been moved to my newest cage; the shop cage.

I adopted a new rat, Beanie, last week and my mischief was fine with her for the most part, except for one of my rats. Butter would attack Beanie to the point of blood, so Beanie has just been living on my bed and was going to work with me in a carrier. It took almost a week for the cage to get delivered, but I got it built yesterday and decided that Hazel would be a good companion for her. Theyre similar in age, and I don't want to risk Hazel falling and hurting herself in my large cage at home.

They are getting along great and I caught them snuggling a few minutes ago

Also Hazel weighs 1.06lbs, the vet said that she is completely healthy and that shes just a big fat girl.

Baby (aka andy) will always be a baby, even a year and 2 months after I got him!

I think he’s embarrassed…

Just been hearing this the last two days, is it hiccups or should I be concerned?

So ive got Rizzy and Remy they are both 2 yrs old

And then I've got milky he was my brother's but all of milky brothers passed away and my brother is moving away and sadly cant get anymore rats

Milky is 2.5 yrs old

Ive been mixing them 2 times a day in a play pen for at least 30 mins but any advice and tips would be appreciated

I should also mention that milky and remy have been grooming eachother quite a bit, im worried they are overgrooming eachother.

Im not sure the best time to mix them

Or how long to wait

The main thing i worry about is rizzy and milky

They keep sniffing eachothers balls alll the time so im not sure if thats some sort of alpha thing or if they are just trying to smell and be friendly with eachother

Milky -brown and white

Rizzy - cream

Remy brown

I want to know everyone's opinion. No judgment, but come on most of us prefer a gender of rat. I started with boys. I have had a number of rats, boys and girls. I took a break and now I am starting a new colony. I chose boys. Weirdly enough I don't mind boy smell to girl smell. It has been my huge thing when cleaning a cage. I find that boys have a poop spot and a separate pee spot. All of my girls would only go on one FLAT spot and made the smell terrible.

What is your preference on rats and why?

Vincent Van GO!! for rat tax (yes he has one ear and he is speed)

I’ve recently started having rats, 4 months ago and rescued 2 terrified girls, I’ve been building trust with them since then, lickable treats, little pat on the head, having them in the room with me while ect, one of the them even started climbing on me and exploring around the cage. But I absolutely can’t touch them for more than a sec or even pick them up. I’ve seen online that 2 rats is the bare minimum so I started looking for more. Found a breeder that handle the babies since birth and took 2 little girls home. For now they are in their own cage cause i wanna give them time to be bigger so they can defend them self ect when introduced. Since the first rat i got, I searched online for building trust with traumatized rats, all the tricks and advice where the same. But when i look for “normal” babies, the advice are always different. To the point that some of them don’t recommended the other. Should I pick them up even when they don’t want too ? I’ve seen that bonding pouch are good so I’ve started doing that but they seem really agitated and when I pick them up they clearly don’t like it. I always offer lickable treats when they are in the pouch so they associate it with good food. But I’m scared that I’m scaring them with picking them up ect. When they are in a tunnel I take the tunnel and put it in the pouch to avoid handling. What was yall best trick to building trust and confidence with baby rats, about 6 weeks old ? And also if you have dealed with traumatized rats, how do u hand up being able to pick them up? I’m scared that an emergency arrives and I’m not able to handle them. I also can’t check for lumps because of that. Thank you if you read all that ! Sorry for mistake English is not my first language.