Who Knew!?!?

News Flash!

I just found out that my great rat Fey who I thought was a dumbo/dwarf cross is actually a breed of Fancy Rat. Turns out she is a Russian Blue Dumbo Eared Fancy Rat.

Who Knew!!!

The picture isnt her, its a pure breed Russian Blue Dumbo Eared Fancy Rat. But wouldnt ya think it was!!!

Yes I am rat crazy!!! I love them!!!

HEY FEY!!!So here is my other baby. I adopted her the same time I adopted Rafiella. Fey is just a sweetie pie. Shes never bitten anyone, she cuddles, wants to run around in her ball, gets along with Harvey, and is JUST a PLEASUREEEE to have around.
The little girls are really liking having Fey around because they are both old enough that they can just get her out and play with her. They are very gentle with her and love giving her rides in hoodie pockets. Our house got really cold today and she got kinda sick so I stuck her in my warm MADE hoodie pocket while I was watching Tommy Boy and she warmed right up in her sleep!
HARVEY BUDDY!!!
aka Harvey Wild Man Jackson
Hmmm....I dont know if Harvey really likes her. Harvey was adopted the day after we adopted Fey and Rafiella Gabriella Sarsparilla. My mom FELL IN LOOOVE and could NOT stop thinking about him and having a house rabbit. We decided it was fate. He is great, a little sciddish. He only likes the carpet, because its easier for him to walk on but in these pix he is on the linolium in the kitchen.Everyone looves having Harvey and Fey around. They are great! Harvey is kinda a lump of fur that hops around once and a while. If you pick him up, when you put him down he will yell at you. (A giant THUMP with his foot.) When we got him he was already fixed so we dont have to worry about him spraying or anything. He is really warmed up to the family now.

Rafiella the Rat

This is Rafiella. I adopted her from Beverly Animal Shelter in late November. I liked her right off because of her really unique markings. She had a light grey purple hood and red eyes. She also had those big old ears I cant resist. Unfortunately, Beverly's Animal Shelter seemed to be careless about there rats because to them they just give the extra rats to the snakes. Rafiella who was a hooded crossed with something that was really small because she was tiny when I got her and she was almost a year old. They were careless and they put her in the same tank as a jumbo male rat. And let me tell you, I saw that guy! He was HUGE!!!

Rafiella in these pictures doesn't look too healthy because she was pregnant. I got bit sooo hard by her because of her temper change that my top of my thumb lost feeling and it was wayyy deep, everyone thought I needed stitches.

She SUFFERED for 3 weeks because she was trying to carry 8 jumbo crossed babies. They were way to big for her. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do for her because I had no money to spend $100-150 for them to tell me she was pregnant. I knew it already. She gave birth to all 8 babies and they were huge and all came out dead. She then still had labored breath for 3 days after and was in severe pain. I again, felt soooooo horrible that I couldn't do anything for her. She died late at night while I held her talking to her.

I am sorry to say that. I just hope that she is up there with Brisby and has a bunch of healthy angel babies. :)

THIS is the appitamy of animal abuse to me. To force an animal to suffer because of your foolishness. And I don't care if it is a bug, a cat, a mouse, a dog, or a horse. It is still a living breathing thing with feelings and deserves to be treated with some respect. Im not saying to humanize animals, cuz I don't think that's right either. I'm just saying DON'T EVER make an animal suffer and die because of your carelessness. And it just made me ESPECIALLY sad and mad that Beverly's calls themselves a NO KILL shelter. And then just feeds off extra animals. But because they aren't killing them there it, what? doesn't count? Does that mean I can poison you and walk out of the room? IDK, I just thought I would share my extremely sad and miserable experience. :(