Random Ramblings

Bandit is such a sweet little rat.

He is one of Tiktak's sixteen babies from last year. We kept them all.

This guy is such a friendly, happy boy who loves people and attention.

I haven't posted a picture of any of our rats in a very long time but I could resist posting this picture of our Bandit.

Thanks DW for lightening the image for me

TikTak decided that she was going to have her babies this morning. At around 8 AM she started giving birth. I later did a head count and we have sixteen newborn little rats!!

Compared to Cara's litter of six, and April's liter of eleven, sixteen seems like an aweful lot of little rats! Mom and babies are all doing well. I can't wait to take pictures!

At one day old these critters have faces only a mother could love, but in about a week they will be well furred and adorable! I have not disturbed the nest yet, and will not have pictures for a few days, in the mean time enjoy a photo of a newborn rat from another litter.

Of course as with our two previous litters we will find a way to keep these little rats, rather than split up the colony and re-home the litter and then wonder if they are in good homes. I'd rather save the heartache and buy a couple more cages and know that these little farts will have the very best possible care.

In the mean time we still require names for 9 baby girls from April's litter! These rats are six weeks old, and we still can't come up with anything. Never mind that they all look alike and telling them apart is not something we are able to do with any degree of accuracy!