rats

Um, I know that this is primarily intended as a fandom journal, and I promise I won't constantly post cute animal entries or anything, but a while ago I've decided to get rats again. And unlike last time I had rats, I decided to not just buy them somewhere, but contact the local rat breeding club, and get my rats from a hobby breeder, so that I know that they will be well cared for, healthy, and used to human contact from the beginning. Anyway, a few weeks ago I talked with a local breeder and looked at her rats, and she told me that I could probably get two from the next litter, she planned.

And today I got a call from her that the babies had been born Sunday, and that while the litter was quite small with only seven that were born alive, I would indeed get two of the babies (I wanted males, and there are five males and two females in the litter), that is of course once they are old enough in roughly four and a half weeks. I can even visit them before that, when they're a little older, i.e. in about two weeks or so.

However, for now she sent pictures of the babies! And I got a first look at them. Admittedly, they're not exactly beauties yet like their parents -- the mother is a silver blue berkshire, the father a russian blue, and both were very friendly too when I visited them -- for now they're all naked and with closed eyes, but still --

( baby rats!! )

I'm really looking forward to have rats living with me again.