We decided there was room in our home for some more little ratties. Instead of going down the pet shop we wanted to rehome some rats. Derek telephoned our local Wood Green Animal Shelter, they had twelve rats looking for a home, so off we went. Derek was hoping for some little girls, but I didn’t care. The twelve rats were all in an enormous cage together, the boys were all neutered so everyone could live happily together. Before we could choose our rats we had to prove we had a nice big cage for everyone to live in, as our cage is to big to fit in our car we used the pictures on this web site to show how much we love and spoil little rats. After seeing our web page the animal shelter assistant obviously knew we were push overs and pulled out two large brown boys, who had been with the shelter for awhile and needed a home. I took one look at the boys and fell in love, they were so friendly and gentle. Derek still wanted some girls and already had his eye on a baby cinnamon hooded rat who had gently placed his finger in her mouth to see what he tasted like. While the assistant was looking for her sister the cheeky little rat disappeared up Derek’s sleeve. So that was our four.
Rescue Rats:
Otter
We had both agreed no more rats, but I had to pop back down the garden centre foor some more rat supplies. While there I couldn’t help noticing a rat they had there. He was obviously not a baby and I was curious as to where he had come from, as we had only taken Mole, Mouse & Ferret from them a few weeks before. The assistant there explained to me the the rat had been returned to the store for being vicious. I do not beleive there is such a thing as a vicous rat, just badly handled ones, and so after a quick call to Derek I agreed to take the rat home with me.
Mole, Mouse & Ferret
We popped to the garden centre to top up on supplies for our other three rats and saw a trio of rats. They were big guys and had obviously been at the garden centre for a while. I felt really bad to them, they had obviously grown too big for the tank that they were kept in and because it had glass sides they had no where to climb. They were a very sad sight. As we already had three rats at home, we didn’t really feel we had the room for anymore, but I couldn’t just leave them all there. I asked Derek if we could take them and at first Derek said no, but he felt as bad for the rats as I did and in the end, after much pleading, he said I could go back and get just one.