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#1 a little furry thing

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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:10 AM

Hello! I'm gonna be fostering quite a few rats soon, I'm actually picking them up today!  I'm gonna be putting all the updates in this topic, so follow if you want to see tons of adorable baby rat pics!

 

Here's their story:

 

So I was browsing Craigslist on Monday, and I found the ad for these rats.

 

The guy said he had a few snakes who didn't eat their meal, so he had planned on keeping them until their next meal.

 

But then the rats had a lot of babies, so now the guy needs to get rid of all the rats.

 

So I'm gonna be fostering them for a while, and finding homes for all of them once they're old enough.


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:11 AM

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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:18 AM

How sweet! Good luck!

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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:20 AM

OK QUEENNN


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:26 AM

Good luck! Hopefully there are no more pregnant but just in case ask your vet about alizin it can be used to terminate early pregnancies so you don't get overwhelmed.


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 07:13 AM

I got the rats! I'll post some pics in a while, they're all hiding rn.

 

So we met at a super sketchy park

 

And they arrived in a super sketchy car

 

And they had a super sketchy box

 

 

 

The box had the rats in it, I moved them into proper carriers as soon as I got a chance

 

And the girl was really nice! 

Well, we didn't talk much, but she wasn't as sketchy as the location lol

 

The park was in a bad-ish part of town, and there was trash everywhere and the playground was falling apart and everything was dead cause it's winter. So it looked super sketchy.

 

And the car was black with really dark tinted windows, and it was kind of beat-up(I arrived in a over-a-decade-old black SUV with really dark windows, so I shouldn't judge, but everything still made me really uncumfortable)

 

It took forever though, they girl arrived 30 minutes late, and I arrived 15 minutes early, so I did a lot of waiting. Plus I live like 30 minutes away from the park we met at(which isn't bad, I guess, but I'm impatient).

 

I was really freaked out by the entire ordeal, but it was worth it for the rats

 

speaking of which, only 4 out of 12 kits of the second litter were left, which was kinda sad, and one kits from the first litter had died before I got them.

 

Overall, everything worked out.

 

And now I have a ton of rats.


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 07:27 AM

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Posted 14 January 2021 - 10:20 AM

I'm working on uploading pics rn!



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Posted 14 January 2021 - 10:21 AM

Yay!



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Posted 14 January 2021 - 10:31 AM

Here are the pics! Before anyone asks, no rats should not live in tanks. But tanks are reccomended for nursing babies because they hold heat much better than wire cages. So that's why I'm using a tank.
 
Sorry all the photos are so big, it took forever just to uplaod them all, I wasn't about to resize them as well.
 
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  The last one is the dad, the rest are of the first litter and one of the moms.


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 10:33 AM

Aww they are so cute!

I'm glad you were able to rescue them!


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Posted 14 January 2021 - 01:45 PM

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Posted 14 January 2021 - 11:57 PM

I'm gonna take everyone out for free roam time tonight! I'm gonna try to count and sex all of them.



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Posted 15 January 2021 - 12:37 AM

Everyone was awake and running around, so I counted and sexed them. There are 14 total, 6 girls, 6 boys, and 2 I'm not sure about. Some of the boys testicles are desending, so I think they're older than the girl said. I'm gonna seperate them today or tomorrow, they'll move in with their dad.



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Posted 15 January 2021 - 12:50 AM

oooooooooooooooh fun!

 

looking forward to possibly meeting ze bootifuls!!!


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