Hello, and welcome to our pet pages, we have managed to fill our home with a variety of animal friends. Over the years our family has included rabbits, gerbils, rats, cats and guinea pigs. Please click on a link and say ‘hello’.

Having discovered the fun of little rats back in 1993, it is hard to imagine our home without a couple of ratties causing their own special type of trouble. They really are the most amazing little friends.
We both kept gerbils as children, long before we met, and are big fans of those inquisitive and bright little critters. The constant chewing of busy little gerbils is a fantastic sound and a hard one to live without.
Our home or garden doesn’t seem to be complete without some bunnies. Our first bunnies joined our family in 1995 and showed us just what intelligent, loveing and naughty critters bunnies are.
We got guinea pigs out of curiosity and were surprised what funny little characters they could be. Our two little squeakie piggies happily spent their days warbling and chomping in the garden.
Last but not least our two little cats, Treacle and Custard. We adopted them from an animal shelter in 1997 and they made themselves right at home.

Recent updates in Pets :

Best friends

Best friends

11 August 2010 by Lindsay

Fawn and Treacle have become such good friends, they are like an old married couple!  It is all a bit daft really, we have two bunnies that won’t get along, but both want to be friends with our cat, Treacle. Poor Treacle is quite old now, and Fawn gets very excited when Treacle is around, ...


Goodbye to baby Bramble

Goodbye to baby Bramble

25 June 2010 by Lindsay

I’ve been meaning to update about out sweet little guy Bramble for some time now.  He has done us so proud over the last two years.  Having been the poorliest of all his siblings, there were times when we thought he wouldn’t make it to adulthood, never mind old age.  It has been a ...


Smudge's new roommates

Smudge's new roommates

20 April 2010 by Lindsay

It was silly to have little old Smudge living alone in her rather large cage, especially with two new boisterous young rats in the house.  We didn’t want to move Smudge from her home – even though she spends all her time in her rat igloo – it just didn’t seem fair to her after ...


Bad cat breath

Bad cat breath

30 March 2010 by Lindsay

Oh my goodness, Treacle did have bad stinky breath!  It was not pleasant, so we took him down the vet and booked him a dental. He had his dental a week ago yesterday and came through fine.  He was a bit wobbly and spaced out from the anaesthetic when we got him home, but it wore off by the next ...


Shy-guy Chestnut has passed away

Shy-guy Chestnut has passed away

29 March 2010 by Lindsay

I’m very sad to say our shy little guy Chestnut passed away yesterday afternoon.  It was a very sad end to what had been an exciting weekend of new rattie arrivals.  His passing was very peaceful, and though we don’t know exactly how old he was, I’m pretty sure he had reached a good ...