We're here!

I've tried a few blogging sites, but hopefully this will be "the one." While I'm dragging my butt about getting a website up and going it's nice to have a way to share news.

Where we are right now:
We have eleven rattie residents.

Pickles is beautiful fawn berkshire. She's a third hand rat, and was one of the first two rats we ever had! She's around three (being third hand it's hard to know for sure). She is sadly, slowly succumbing to a pituatary tumor.

Gretchen is a cute little black hooded, also around three years old. She was considered "unadoptable" by ORATS so we took her in.

Allele is a little siamese girl. She came from an "I was given a pregnant rat" litter. She was in the second group of rats we ever took in. She lost her sister Nimbus to a ridiculously virulent strain of Strep. Pneumoniae late last year.

Theta is an agouti berk, around six months old. Her and her sister were posted on Craig's List. They were being housed with their five brothers in a tiny hamster cage! Thankfully neither were pregnant and Theta has become quite the little squish.

Isosceles is Theta's sister, she's an agouti hood. She's never gotten over her skittishness fully (they weren't handled much for their first nine weeks!) but she's slowly coming around.

Tiki was a pet store purchase, I admit. She was returned to the store twice because a snake wouldn't eat her and I just couldn't let her end up with such a fate. She's black except for the smallest fleck of white on her lower tummy. She's slowly but surely coming around to people.

Meme is a sweet PEW girl, a little younger than two. She's very loving both to her rattie friends and her human friends. She's got long term respitory damage and is doing quite well on anitbiotics.

Cecil is a cute blue blaze faced girl. She's around a year and a half I believe. Given to us by someone faced with eviction over the number of rats she was keeping. Cecil tolerates people but she has a lot of work to do.

Sasha came in with Cecil, she's a black hooded around the same age. She is also pretty handshy, but coming around nicely. She just had a massive tumor removed from her shoulder and is recovering well.

Cirrus was given to me by a pet store along with her mother and three siblings. She's a absolutely adorable beige hooded dumbo. Very sweet and very kissey! She's nine weeks old.

Starr is Cirrus's little black capped sister. She's a little less friendly, but she seems to be coming around.

We also have two mice in residency.
Velma is a cute little agouti girl, age unknown. She was going to be sent back to the breeding farm she came from, but I stepped in and brought her home. She loves running in her wheel.

Victoria was adopted from OHS as a companion for Velma. She's a cute little PEW that loves to scamper up and down arms.

We've also got a kitty foster right now. Patches is a big three year old calico girl. She's been here two days and just finally came out from under the bed!

Stay tuned for our adventures!