Never buying rats again!! - Page 5

NennaMeerkat · 07-19-11, 08:42 PM

Of course and the rich families have one for each member of the family!!

stephanbakir · 07-19-11, 08:44 PM

Mine melted last year because I had the wood stove up too high, so I spent the summer in wallmart trying to warm up.

NennaMeerkat · 07-19-11, 08:51 PM

Why didn't you just head out to the back yard and kill a few caribou for their fur

TeaNinja · 07-19-11, 09:12 PM

*imagines ben stiller wearing the panda in tropic thunder*

i just put my mom rat in the guys cage for a night a few weeks ago, she's most likely pregnant again. here comes litter #3 lol.

NennaMeerkat · 07-19-11, 09:19 PM

Yay for littler number 3! You best be sending me pics when they start showing their patterns Tea! I would never forgive you if you didn't :P

vendettaseve · 07-19-11, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by stephanbakir

Every canadian owns an igloo... You should know that!

Yes, but youd need to get a second one for the rabbits. If your anything like me your pet igloo is full of Sled Dogs :3

stephanbakir · 08-14-11, 08:11 AM

Alright, so... the males have been with the females since this post. They were "large" rats when we got them, and still no babies... Gona F/T the lot of them and complain to the breeder who sold them to me. None of the females are pregnant and they eat like pigs.

TeaNinja · 08-14-11, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by stephanbakir

Alright, so... the males have been with the females since this post. They were "large" rats when we got them, and still no babies... Gona F/T the lot of them and complain to the breeder who sold them to me. None of the females are pregnant and they eat like pigs.

lolol. the females DO need to go into heat before they actually knock each other up. you could have had them together the whole time without the female ever going into heat. if the male pesters her enough she can go into heat sooner.

it's crazy you had ANY issues at all. my rats were knocking each other up like a week or less after i got the female. now i've got GENERATIONS of rats! lol

i started with just the big black male rat in the beginning as a live feeder for nigma. nigma took a 4 month food strike and i had to house the rat the whole time so i got the female and put them together and they had the first litter. i kept 1 albino male and 1 black female from the first litter and now the male almost as big as the jumbo black male. then the albino just knocked up the black female and the black rat knocked up the mama rat again. i should be having another 2 litters SOMEwhat soon.

also i kept 2 hooded females that are in the other cage from the 2nd litter. they have cool patterns and they outgrew being meals for my small snakes. i suppose i'll try to either sell them as breeders or pets sometime.

also, if i don't SEE the male physically knocking her up, i can't really tell she's pregnant until a week or two away from birth, because they get super fat.

SnakeyJay · 08-14-11, 01:11 PM

Well thats s FAT rat!! Lol

TeaNinja · 08-14-11, 01:15 PM

yea, that was a day or two before she popped out the last litter of 16 so she was mega fat with babies lol.

ladyjustice33 · 08-14-11, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by NennaMeerkat

Stephan there is something so much fun about breeding rats and mice. That is why Tea (and myself back when I bred) have so much trouble killing the babies! You honestly fall in love with their personalities. Its even harder when you have a rat that just wants to be with you and loves attention.

This is why I will have to stick to the f/t rodents for my snakes. I would get attached and no way I could kill them or feed them live, lol !!!!