More Ratties!

I lost one of my baby rats and was looking around for some ratties in need of a home when these two caught my eye. The seemed like they needed a good home and were just too cute.

The female is less than a year old and does not have a tail she does have a little stub tail though. She reminds me of a Guinea Pig lol. She has been housed with the male but they have not ever had babies. I don't know if she isn't fertile or if he is just too old? She is very sweet and active though and I think she will make a perfect budy for my baby rats since they are so active too.

The male is two years old and when I got home and picked him up I discovered he is a bit under weight and I put him in a tank on paper towels while I cleaned out their cage. When I came back he had coughed or sneezed red mucus so he has an RI. Thankfully I still have meds from my other rat so hopefully he will heal up but he is old so it may be getting close to his time. They were housed in cedar bedding so I think that contributed to his RI plus his age. I knew he was old and I probably wouldn't have him lone but I wanted him to have a good home for the rest of his time.

First up is the female, her name was Piglet I don't know if I'm going to keep that name.


Look at that little tail, how cute! lol



And here is my old boy, Wes.

This is the new baby dumbo I bought a few weeks ago to keep Hazel company because Violet was sick.

This is Flour.


I love her little blue spots!



And this is Hazel when I got her. She wasn't weaned yet so I had to bottle feed her kitten milk.



And here is my ball of energy now. I could only get one picture she is so darn fast lol.

Piglet is so cute...She is similar to one of my misfits we call Babbette. She is a bobtail rat about 6 weeks old here. She is one of my three misfits. I have a hairless male (Pinky), a semi-hairless (double bred rex) female (Princess) and Babbette in a 20g long tank. We thought for the longest time that Pinky was sterile but Princess gifted us with about a dozen babies on March 17th. I will be anxious to see if any of them turn out to be hairless.

awwww...such little cuties! I love Flour, and the name is pretty clever too!
Also, Good job with Hazel! I had a mouse I found in the middle of my work parking lot, he was roughly 9 days old. I fed him kitten milk replacement with a dropper and had him for another few months, but once he got to be full size he spend all his time trying to escape. I let him go in the cornfield behind my parents house.
I called him Bo'Jangles. kinda miss the little dude. When he was young, just after his eyes opened, he would crawl into my hand when I had to feed him.

DragonBoy said:

Princess gifted us with about a dozen babies on March 17th. I will be anxious to see if any of them turn out to be hairless.

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This is a little off topic, but I'm curious. Do baby hairless rats ever grow fur or fuzz? or are they like pinkies that just keep getting bigger? I'd never really thought of it before. Congrats on your new littleones!

Oh Katie, they are lovely!!
Your old man rat looks so much like my boy Roosevelt, he is a blue hooded too.
And the babies are too cute for words!!!
I would keep the name piglet, with her tail it fits her. Plus, what is important is not the name you give them, but the love you give them in the short time they have with you. Names matter less to me now since I just got my 11th and 12th ratties recently and will probably go on keeping them for another 20-30 years. Over time you do run out of all the "good' names!

RosieReal said:

This is a little off topic, but I'm curious. Do baby hairless rats ever grow fur or fuzz? or are they like pinkies that just keep getting bigger? I'd never really thought of it before. Congrats on your new littleones!

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Depends on which hairless. Most start off with hair but lose most of it as they mature. Some retain patches of hair, and lose hair and regrow it in various patches throughout their lives. They all usually retain some small amounts of hair, usually on their legs and feet. It just depends on how much of which Rex gene they have.

Congrats on your new additions! They're very cute.

RosieReal said:

This is a little off topic, but I'm curious. Do baby hairless rats ever grow fur or fuzz? or are they like pinkies that just keep getting bigger? I'd never really thought of it before. Congrats on your new littleones!

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This is my first litter of hairless to hairless. Princess is what I would call semi-hairless, as she has fur on her head and a patch on her butt. Pinkie has no hair except for his whiskers.
I am told the babies will grow hair like normal for the first few weeks then start to loose it.
I am keeping the females along with a couple of males to see what they will look like in the F2's.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

starsevol said:

Oh Katie, they are lovely!!
Your old man rat looks so much like my boy Roosevelt, he is a blue hooded too.
And the babies are too cute for words!!!
I would keep the name piglet, with her tail it fits her. Plus, what is important is not the name you give them, but the love you give them in the short time they have with you. Names matter less to me now since I just got my 11th and 12th ratties recently and will probably go on keeping them for another 20-30 years. Over time you do run out of all the "good' names!

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Thanks Beth, Wes is very well mannered too, unlike Hazel and Piglet who are pushy and hyper but I like that about them it's cute lol. I'm hoping Wes will be around for a while longer he is very sweet. I'm already attached to him so I'll be very sad when he passes. I knew when I got him he was an old boy but old ratties need love too.

Piglets name will most likely stay that just because picking names is so difficult for me lol. When the previous owner told me that she didn't have a tail, I thought there was no tail at all she a itty bitty tail and I find it adorable.

LOL, I agonized for DAYS when I got my first rats. A pair of breeder bred pedigreed special fancy critters that I loved beyond reason!
The 4 I got now were named before I got them.... I had 2 boys that I named after dishes served on Hell's Kitchen, Wellington and Risotto. My mom used to tease me and refer to Wellington and Risotto as Roosevelt and Winchester, just to get my goat! So, of course when Wellington and Risotto went to the bridge, the new kids just HAD to be named Roosevelt and Winchester. The sad thing is, my mom got Wellington and Risotto a Christmas treat, wrapped it, and labelled it Roosevelt and Winchester.....Well, Risotto ended up passing away on Christmas eve....but Roosevelt and Winchester really did enjoy the package that had their name on it, even if it was a joke!

When Roosevelt and Winchester were about 6 months old, my husband and I were watching TV, and I said well....what are we calling the next 2? And he saidd "Why not Remmington and Ruger?".