rat babies!

[stephanbakir]

This girl does a great job, shes got about 15 babies in there (the litter of 2 mothers) and shes a first time mother. The other mother wanted nothing to do with the babies.

[Gungirl]

Aww I can't wait until my rats have babies! That Picture is super cute!

[alessia55]

Awww this photo is adorable. What a good mama :)

[Kayla90]

She's an extremely good mommy.. She's taking care of 15 babies... 9 of which are the other mothers.. She's exhausted but she's still there, still over them protective as can be.

[infernalis]

People should be more like rats... we would live in a better place.

[Kayla90]

I agree with you 100% Wayne.. The world would be a much better place if people were like rats :D

[alessia55]

I like rats when they're pinkies and fuzzies, and when they're young and adults. But I can't STAND weaned rat pups. They're so gutsy and fearless and I really don't like it :p Once they're over that phase I'm OK again :p

[millertime89]

awe... wish my apartment complex allowed rats, I'm pushing it with snakes as is.

[Jenn_06]

cute, all my females take turns taking care of the babies its so cute. and bad moms never last too long in my rat rack.

[stephanbakir]

As long as she keeps pumping out babies I'm fine. Gona feed her to a snake eventually, but for now, as long as I have a second mom with babies that can take over I'm happy.

[infernalis]

cute, all my females take turns taking care of the babies its so cute. and bad moms never last too long in my rat rack.

Bad moms and dads all get fed off right away here too.

Eating my pinkies is grounds for immediate death.

[stephanbakir]

She doesn't eat em, just neglects em
when I get a replacement, shes gone. till then shes working

[alessia55]

This is (not so) random... how many nipples does mama rat have for those babies to suckle on?

[stephanbakir]

6. unless you magically find a rat with a million nipples!
Pouched rats, have 2 nipples.

[infernalis]

This is (not so) random... how many nipples does mama rat have for those babies to suckle on?

Exactly twelve. (edit: Mice have 10)

[stephanbakir]

Wait, I just counted my females nipps and saw 6??? they lack hair around them so... how come she has 6 lol. are the others in hiding?

[Gungirl]

Stephan.. Leave your poor female rats alone!

[infernalis]

Wait, I just counted my females nipps and saw 6??? they lack hair around them so... how come she has 6 lol. are the others in hiding?

They have nipples from the arm pits all the way down to the back legs.

This is a mouse, add 2 more nips.

http://www.thamfriends.com/1/nipples.gif

[bigsnakegirl785]

Haha both my females share nursing duties, too! One of the females recently had 16 babies! I was shocked at how many she had, I was looking at her a couple of days before she gave birth and I said she's got to have more than 12 in there lol. The other one's not as good, her first was 9 and the one she just had was 10. Her mom normally had only 5 or 6.

[ZARADOZIA]

They have nipples from the arm pits all the way down to the back legs.

This is a mouse, add 2 more nips.

http://www.thamfriends.com/1/nipples.gif



Anatomically correct...did you draw it? :)

[stephanbakir]

Thanks Wayne.

[infernalis]

Anatomically correct...did you draw it? :)


I found it one day when researching mouse physiology.