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13 years ago
It never rains.....
Today I had a call to take in 4 girls, from someone just 10 minutes from me (makes a chance from half way across the country).
She had rescued these girls from her sister in law who had gotten them, put them in a little hamster cage, thrown them a handful of hamster food every so often and never bothered handling them.
This person took the girls from her, but couldn't keep them herself due to allergies and the fact that they kept escaping the cage and she was worried her dog would get them.
She said she'd repeatedly tried to rehome them online before finding me, and the only calls she had were from snake owners trying to get them as food >:( Luckily, she was savvy enough to tell this was their intention (as well as a few people 'outing' them for it) or else I dread to think where these girls would be now :(
So, they're all healthy, seem a tad underweight and have not stopped eating since arriving here, but are otherwise normal pingy, happy young girls.
2 are hairless, one is agouti hooded, and one is mink hooded. Its sad; hairless used to be so rare here but since snake owners got hold of them for food, they're churned out all over the place :( I've had 5 come in here in less than a week.
Here they be:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/.....p;l=4ed0cb8416
Today I had a call to take in 4 girls, from someone just 10 minutes from me (makes a chance from half way across the country).
She had rescued these girls from her sister in law who had gotten them, put them in a little hamster cage, thrown them a handful of hamster food every so often and never bothered handling them.
This person took the girls from her, but couldn't keep them herself due to allergies and the fact that they kept escaping the cage and she was worried her dog would get them.
She said she'd repeatedly tried to rehome them online before finding me, and the only calls she had were from snake owners trying to get them as food >:( Luckily, she was savvy enough to tell this was their intention (as well as a few people 'outing' them for it) or else I dread to think where these girls would be now :(
So, they're all healthy, seem a tad underweight and have not stopped eating since arriving here, but are otherwise normal pingy, happy young girls.
2 are hairless, one is agouti hooded, and one is mink hooded. Its sad; hairless used to be so rare here but since snake owners got hold of them for food, they're churned out all over the place :( I've had 5 come in here in less than a week.
Here they be:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/.....p;l=4ed0cb8416
I wish I had something better to say here, but I really don't. Good luck with your new girls, and I'm sorry to hear about Perez.
The other thing is, I strongly suspect I know where these hairless came from.
There was a guy I worked with who was a bit of a BYB of everything, and he 'got into' rats and had a few 'accidental' litters (or not, since he put a male with females for 'company' and claimed he didn't realise they can mate so young, and so quickly, but I really do suspect he knew this, as he seemed so proud of the rats he'd bred, and how there were hairless ones).
He gave the dad to me because he didn't have other boys for him to live with (thats Hector, hairless dumbo boy). Then when the babies were born, he was going on about how there were hairless ones and did I 'want any'. I told him no, because I don't like constantly bailing out back yard breeders and giving them an easy way out. Plus, I didn't have room.
He then said he was going to take the litter to the local pet shop and they would give him £2 per rat (he was really excited about this). I think I even said at the time 'they'll probably end up with me sooner or later anyway'.
And I suspect these girls are from that litter, because they were purchased from that same pet shop, and are around the right age. So they are very likely Hector's daughters.
Another reason why BYB's piss me off; I end up with the rats they've bred sooner or later, so when they get on at me for 'whats the problem? Its only one litter of rats!' I feel like slapping them and saying no, its not just one litter of rats, it ANOTHER fucking litter of rats that I'll be paying for in a few months time.