My rattie-friends

[ladyjosephine]

So..Big update

Currently I have 9 girls & 8 boys.

The Girls are;
Juno Regina
Everlong
Imaginary Superstar
Shades of Avalon
Mystical faerie
Oraïa Ophelia
Caramel Céilidh
Poison Girl
Dream catcher

Juno is the oldest, she'll turn 2 in febr. Dream catcher is the youngest. She is Oraïa's daughter and was born here in October
Unfortunately I lost 2 of my girls just 1 day before Oraïa's babies where born. A neighbor's' cat found it's way into the rodent room, It seems he/she opened the girls cage because 1 of the doors was open and all my girls where gone..Luckely most of them were unharmed, but Sharada&Passie were gone.
My stepfather did find Sharada, 2 streets behind ours but she was death already...Passie we never found again

I did lose some more; Baby died at the wonderful age of 2 years and 8 months. Moortje died 1,5 month later very suddenly, she mourned after Baby's death and I guess she couldn't go on without her best friend. Namari&Ace died at the same day; Namari being almost 2 and Ace just turning 1,5. Honey died a few months after her grandmother; she had had a tumor-removal surgery but didn't recover well..she died a month after her first birthday


the boys are:

Dai kin
Forever Texas
Oh my! Apple Pie!
Joyful Jackpot
Qonquistador
Cashmere Dreams
Mo Ghile Mear
Deepest Love

Dai is the oldest boy right now, he'll turn 2 in April. Deepest Love is Dream catcher's brother & Oraïa's son.

At the moment my rats are having a virus, I already lost Knight 1,5 wk ago. Unfortunatly Dai&Appie are also not really recovering.

If all goes well, and my rats are virus-free, Caramel Céilidh will have a litter in about 2 months(End of febr.)
She was born here, Avalon is her mother & Cashmere is her brother. So I'm really looking forward to that

I'll post some pictures of all the rats later on!

[Die Fledermaus]

A cat opened a cage door?? My cats can't do that and I have a variety of cages here.

My cats are not even interested much in rats as they are too big for the felines.

How do you cage them, I mean, all in one big cage or smaller cages, or what?

What do you call Imaginary Superstar for short?

You are very good with names, creative.

I posted in the Memorial Forum how my Rangi died a few weeks ago. Very sudden.

Best to them all. May we all remember they have ephemeral lives, but we do what we can.

Photos are awaited!

Thanks!

BTW, I have four and four right now, in two cages, although one guy is separate as I got him too small to stay in the cage. He has been staying elsewhere until he got big enough to not fit between the bars! He will join the guys soon. Maybe tomorrow, next cage cleaning.

[ladyjosephine]

Well, I posted my cages in a thread a while ago..
the boys & girls have the same cages but are separated, Only Tex is living alone in a different cage because he doesn't like other rats.

I think the cat must have been hanging on the door...I actually don't know, I wasn't there off course, I can only guess how it went. I know I didn't leave any doors open, I always check all my cages before I leave the room...

Imaginary Superstar is Immie for short

I love coming up with names for the rats, that's 50% of the fun while waiting
I'm thinking about calling the next girl(Céilidh's baby) Evangeline Bellefontaine(Poem; Evangeline, a tale of Acadie)

The only name I didn't choose was Everlong, but I love the name and I know her since she was only 1 day old with this name. Everlong is the Foo Fighters' Song

[Die Fledermaus]

Thanks for the reminder.

Immie!!

Use bag ties on the cages if needed for added security.

You are light years better than me at names. You are more creative, plus I have gone through over a two hundred already.

Right now I am looking at a mostly white rat with a dark nose and a little color towards the rear in a tank. I just moved him there from a cage as he was too small to go into a rat cage; he could squeeze between the bars. He is a (very lucky) rescue rat, and he will meet the other guys soon. I think he is a guy; I need to check soon. After that, how about some names??

[ladyjosephine]

A Sealpoint Siamese rat? like this(maybe red or ruby eyes):


This is Céilidh btw

I love names that are historical, something I like or have a meaning to me. At the moment I like Horatio for a boy(Horatio Hornblower, I love the books)

I think I had to come up with around 200 names as well...not all where as creative

[Die Fledermaus]

Just look at the names in my Memorial Gallery in my signature. Click on the link. Some are very creative.

I have not named that rat yet until I am sure of the gender. I have another somewhat like that; I am as certain as I can be she is a female; she is in with Annie, Kahini (my fave), and Panini. Both these new young ones are rescues; I don't want to say where, just look at a recent thread I started in this forum.

It surprises me a little such a color would come from there. But, yea, they look sort of like that; being young the nose color seems to have developed with age, as happens to certain gerbils.

I told about Kahini's brother, Rangi, dying. See the Memorial forum. It was quick. And it was not contagious. Any idea what it could have been?

[Die Fledermaus]

I should add that rat of mine also has some black color around the base of the tail. But the ears look normal not dark.

[ladyjosephine]

Yeah but Céilidh is A BES, normally the Siamese are RES/PES(Red eyed Siamese/Pink eyed Siamese) so her ears are darker(Although tex, my RES-Siamese, also had "black ears")

Céilidh also has a Point at the base of her tail, and she has "sleeves". That's normal.
Siamese rats change by age...like this(Actually Céilidh with sibling):

3 days.


6 days.(you can see they're a bit "sepia" colored)


8 days


12 days(the dark one on top, you can see the start of the point at the tail base)


15 days


3,5 weeks(céilidh's brother, Caddock)


7 weeks(Caddock again)


And this is what caddock look liked 1 month ago..his point has gotten darker

So they start like a Sepia-colored baby and end up to be cream color with a dark nose,tail base and "sleeves". Different from a Himalayan; they start as an all-white kitten and will develop points from 6 weeks and up, but their points will always be smaller than on a Siamese(And they don't always have a point at tail base) Also; A siamese is Cream-colored, A Himi is Snow white

when you have your Siamese/Himalayans in a "colder" room the points will get darker. My rats are in a room that's about 15C, they seem to like that the best because it's not to warm and not very cold. My Siamese boys&girls are very dark at the moment..I love it, hopefully they keep it this way...I noticed that Tex got a little lighter on the nose this summer but now he has an almost black nose again

[Die Fledermaus]

So what is mine again?? Based on what I told you. . .

Lovely photos.

I would post a photo but this laptop, as I said, has a bad USB port, and until it is replaced I cannot get photos from camera to computer. Right now I have over 2,000 photos on two cards!

[ladyjosephine]

Did she start white and developed a point? Than she's Himalayan
If she started a little Sepia-like and transformed to a Cream/white-colored rat with a point she's a Siamese..

[Die Fledermaus]

Himalayan!

[Dezzi]

Oh my goodness, baby rats are so cute! ^_^ I love them, yours are so pretty.