RF HAS NEW RATTIES (and pics of old ones!)

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I HAVE NEW RATS

They are two months and two weeks old <3 One is gray and named Jenner, one is brown and named Justin. Jenner is very energetic and likes to run around and explore and pee everywhere. Justin is very calm, and he enjoys just sitting with you and being petted and held, and does not pee on people/furniture/everything.

Pets, besides small fish, are not allowed in the dorms at my school, and so I was not planning on getting any more until graduation. However, these sort of just fell into my lap. See, awhile ago at the local pet store, a new shipment of rats came in. But some fool put the male and female rats in the same container, and by the time they arrived at the store, all the female rats were pregnant, and a massive surplus of about sixty baby rats result!

I was unaware of this, but a friend of mine, who had never kept rats before, went with some pals to see the babies...and ended up bringing back two baby boys and four baby girls for herself, as well as an adult female to hold for a friend of hers. Yup. She'd never kept rats before, but brought home SEVEN. But despite this, she actually did quite well with keeping them, and they were well-cared for and happy and super duper cute of course! However, my dad did tell me to offer to her that if things ever got to be too much, we would take the boys off her hands. Yes, I have enough class not to try to poach someone else's rats, but he doesn't XD

As it happens, it's good he made the offer. She can't take them home because her mother is anti-rat, so I took them home to pet-sit over spring break...and we ended up never having to bring them back! As it turned out, she's going to be moving in to one of the theme houses, and so she can't hide the rats there as well as in a dorm, and so she gave Justin and Jenner to me PERMENANTLY! Yaaaay!

My last two rats died over last spring break...and I get a new pair over this one! How about that, huh?

Anyway, they live at home with Dad, who needs buddies since our dog died this January, and I am coming home regularly to visit them! Hope to have pictures of them soon, they are my sweet precious new babies AND I AM SOOOO HAPPY!!

In the meantime, these are some pictures of darlings past I dug up

Fidget
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Fidget and Boo (short for Bubonic <3)
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Boo, the most badass rat ever. He went after DOGS.
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Henry, who weighed two pounds and was so fat he had no neck
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My sister attempting to eat Charlie and Deckie?!
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Lance (short for Lancelot) and Simba (because he's got a goldie lion color!)
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Deckie mugs for the camera!
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Elvis "Deckie" Costello!
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HE LOVES THE CAMERA
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Lance was very fat and very grumpy XD I swear he's pouting in the first shot--unlike Deckie, he does not enjoy photo times!
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DADDY AND DECKIE WERE BESTEST FRIENDS <3
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JT (short for Justin Timberat, because he's bringing sexy back!) is alas only a stuffed rat, but he is no less cute for it <3
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This little guy slipped into our science building! We caught him and set him free outside of course : )
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A dormouse (not mine, unfortunately)
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Black-Phoenix666's avatar
My two rats are old ladies, they are just about two years old. Yin-Yan and Kira-Tan; but yours also sound cute x3