this would fit in breeding too but it'll do here (Rats)

Member Name: nevikrose

Product:	Rats
Date:	15/06/02 (57 review reads)
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Advantages: cute, loyal, fun

Disadvantages: high Maintenance

We rescued a rat from a friend who had a rather large ginger tom that was just a little too interested. Her name was Rita, and we loved her (RIP) although she wasn’t keen on being picked up.
We soon bought more; we got Angel as a companion, a rather thin, straggly kind of creature that never did warm to handling, and Harvey followed her, a pet shop mistake that turned out to be a girl, we wanted ‘him’ for breeding.
Still with all three in on large cage they were content, they would line up at the door when food was a TV dinner and wait patiently for a taste…then fight until Rita got it all.
Mum was so proud the day she brought home Basil, a thickset black cloaked stud who would be the father of our first litter. We paired him with Harvey; she was the healthiest, what with Rita getting on a bit and Angel never really putting on weight.
The result was Isabelle, my baby. She was beautiful and full of character. She later died with a huge tumour that grew so fast it was stupid! But I had 2 yrs with her, my best friend, kind of. I have Hudson, Doyle, and Arthur now, they are the squidgeyist, cuddlyist things on earth, and I’ve never met creatures so soppy. They actually ask for hugs, and sulk when I’m too busy.
they won't stop eating though, rats are biological dustbins, my friend found a scrap of material in the cage, and what with there being no material around with holes, the only conclusion is that they've eaten an entire garment. i'm damned if i can work out what that was!
They get fed on commercial whole mix, supplemented with fruit, cake, anything really, not fizzy or spicy, they can’t vomit so it can do large amounts of damage. But just sometimes, when I’ve scrubbed the cage, And before I put the bedding in, a whole raw egg will provide hours of entertainment, for all of us, they need a bath after though! And that's always fun, i've taken to doing one at a time now, whil
e you're washing one, the others tend to use you in a ladder type way, and those coats hold a lot of water. you get soaked!
i tend to use dog shampoo, not the flea stuff, the tinyest amount diluted in a jug of water, it help rid them of skin ailments.
and the easyist way of doing it is to fil the bath up to just so thy cant get enough power to jump, they're on tip toes, that way you don't end up with huge scratches dowm your arm from the ladder thing!

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