Guess I'm going to be a rat "foster grandma"....

[undergunfire]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

Two questions? one comment!

1. I thought you weren't going to have ratties after the boys were gone?
I wasn't , but I try to imagine life without the rats and it wouldn't seem the same. They are really my little prides and joys...I spend the most time taking care of them. It really hurts when they get sick and you don't ever know what day will be their last...but out of all my pets...I find myself blabbing about my rats more.

2. I thought you weren't going to have a roomie right now?
We weren't when we first moved into the house we are currently in, but we decided that since the house we are moving into, now on the 26th, is set up where Garrett could have his own room away from ours AND have his OWN bathroom....it works better for us. Ryan is putting off the military and we are going to school....it is now the time where we can feel comfortable with a room mate. Plus, Garrett's rent money would be helping us out. a lot, and we are helping him out a lot right now by giving him a place to live. He had to move back in with his parents and has to share a bedroom with his 18 year old sister (Garret is 20) and his sister is a on/off drug binger...just not a good situation.

3. I didn't know you would be getting married!
Yep! We are planning the wedding for May 2nd if we get the lake we want to have it at! It's going to be a 50's style wedding. Guys are greasers and ladies will be in polka dotted dresses. We are kind of going for "Grease"...lol!

 

[TinysMom]

Honestly Amy - even though I personally can't stand rats - I'm really happy that you're not going to be without a rat when your boys pass.

Rats just seem to be so much a part of who you are and what you like....and they have always seemed to bring you such joy when I have seen you talk about them.
Its almost like the way I feel about flemish...don't know - I just can't see my life without one...if I can help it.

I think its great that you're getting the cage and keeping more rats...I really do.

 

[undergunfire]

TinysMom wrote:

Honestly Amy - even though I personally can't stand rats - I'm really happy that you're not going to be without a rat when your boys pass.

Rats just seem to be so much a part of who you are and what you like....and they have always seemed to bring you such joy when I have seen you talk about them.
Its almost like the way I feel about flemish...don't know - I just can't see my life without one...if I can help it.

I think its great that you're getting the cage and keeping more rats...I really do.

Thank you, Peg :hug:.

They truly are apart of who I am and they bring much joy AND sadness, but I just think that if I took a break...I would want to get more rats a few months after my boys pass...so why not just take the opportunity to keep some now.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

That is so cool! I love the 50's wedding thing!

May 2nd is my son's 18th birthday!

Yuck on the military. Go to school stay home! Tell him I said so!


*not dissing the military but I just don't think he should go when you just get married*

 

[undergunfire]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

That is so cool! I love the 50's wedding thing!

May 2nd is my son's 18th birthday!

Yuck on the military. Go to school stay home! Tell him I said so!


*not dissing the military but I just don't think he should go when you just get married*

Yeah, he wants to get his 12 missing credits and join the Navy with college behind him. He also is taking this time to join a band again.

 

[JadeIcing]

WE HAVE BIRTH! I KNOW HOW MANY!!!

 

[undergunfire]

I just got home from work and went to check on the rats. I heard eeper squeaks and said "Oh, junk buckets...Spice is still in the cage with Mint and her 7 four week old babies.

I opened up a fleece tube and found Spice and saw a cute little pink jelly bean. UGH....BABIES!

At a quick glance, about 3 babies have PINK EYES and the rest have black eyes.



We have 11 eepers. I'll be heading outside NOW to go kick Louie's grave. That little ungrateful basssssssss......

 

[SnowyShiloh]

WOOHOO, Go Louie! Way to pass on your genetic material! Did he perhaps pass on his adorable elephant-like ears, too? Really Amy, if I lived close by, I would get into ratties again. I'd take 4 or 5 girlies off your hands! If only. I know you like boys better, but I like girls. I had 3 girls and one boy. Colby Jack was a wonderful guy, but I loved watching the girls running everywhere and playing all the time. We didn't have a television so watched their antics instead... called it RaTV.

Also, where are the danged pictures already? I've been checking in on this thread every couple days looking for pictures of Mint's babies, now I'm waiting for Mint and Spice babies! :biggrin2: Congrats, grandma, on your 18 grandchildren.

 

[undergunfire]

Is there a way to sneak ship 4 or 5 to you ? Coming to Arizona any time soon?

I'm letting Spice settle down. I am not sure when she had the babies, but they do have milk bands. I am assuming she had them earlier because every one was cleaned off and fed. She is nursing them now.

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Well, I will be in Louisiana a few days after Christmas, which is a lot closer than Alaska! Still pretty far though and the babies would be too young and it sure would be hard to get them on a plane. When are they going to invent teleportation devices?

 

[undergunfire]

Darn, Shiloh, for living in Alaska!!


At least Spice's litter is going to be part dumbo ears AND colors, so they should be very easy to adopt out.

I also plan on keeping 2 baby girls and 2 baby boys from her litter. I will be ordering a Critter Nation cage next week. We are selling a dog run for $120 and the g-ma just sent me $25 for my birthday...so that is $145...just enough to order the CN...and it was "free money"...so Ryan can't complain that I am "wasting money"....hehehe.

I also have noticed that Mint's baby boys have their little *goolies* dropping at 4 weeks!! I am going to see if the person coming to my house any minute is ready to bring her boys home tonight or this weekend. I think they are totally ready...mom is not nursing anymore that I can tell and they are eating solid foods & drinking from the water bottle.


I just got some cute pictures of Mint's babies, so I will be posting those AND some of Spice's eeper shots.


Gosh....11 babies!!

 

[JadeIcing]

I wish I was closer! Even Rob wants atleast two rats now!!

:shock:

 

[undergunfire]

JadeIcing wrote:

I wish I was closer! Even Rob wants atleast two rats now!!

:shock:

Rats can fly .

 

[JadeIcing]

undergunfire wrote:

JadeIcing wrote:

I wish I was closer! Even Rob wants atleast two rats now!!

:shock:

Rats can fly .

Do you recall the cost of flying the gps? Lol! Also the nerves!?!?!

 

[undergunfire]

JadeIcing wrote:

undergunfire wrote:

JadeIcing wrote:

I wish I was closer! Even Rob wants atleast two rats now!!

:shock:

Rats can fly .

Do you recall the cost of flying the gps? Lol! Also the nerves!?!?!

Yes . It would be the lowest cost ($112?) because it will be less than 9lbs or whatever. Expensive ratties .

 

[JadeIcing]

undergunfire wrote:

JadeIcing wrote:

undergunfire wrote:

JadeIcing wrote:

I wish I was closer! Even Rob wants atleast two rats now!!

:shock:

Rats can fly .

Do you recall the cost of flying the gps? Lol! Also the nerves!?!?!

Yes . It would be the lowest cost ($112?) because it will be less than 9lbs or whatever. Expensive ratties .

More so when so many here need homes. Maybe once I have no GPS. After Mace. I just can't.

 

[undergunfire]

I totally understand. Like I said, rats are the most time consuming & expensive pets that I have!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

OMG I love dumbos!

although I wish they were Ralphie's babies!

 

[undergunfire]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

although I wish they were Ralphie's babies!

You might have your wish! Upon further expection of the babies, some babies have straight whiskers and some babies have curly whiskers. Straight whiskers means standard straight coats and curly whiskers would mean rex or double rex.

If you cross a standard furred rat with a hairless, you will get double rex....if I am correct *trails off to research this*.

Actually, I am quite happy about this, besides the fact that I now have 11 pink jelly beans. Rex (curly haired rats) are my favorite (Spartan is a rex) and as are Double Rex (curly hair, but thin).


Pictures of the new bubs coming in a few minutes....

 

[undergunfire]

Okay....11 bubs. I believe there to be 5 girls and 6 boys. I don't see an obvious runt, so it is possible Spice had 12 and the runt passed and she disposed of the body?

Only 3 babies have pink eyes. Two boys have pink eyes and one girl has pink eyes. This is what makes it confusing for me because Louie had pink eyes. If Ralphie is the papa, then I wonder if down the lines Spice or Ralphie's relatives had pink eyes?