New Rats Blog - Pt 1

ok, so i´m hoping to start a little blog about my new rats. i haven´t got them yet and don´t know how much time i will have to write but fingers crossed.

so, the situation is this, i adopted 3 rescue rats from raystede last october time. unfortunately, last month we had to have one of these rats pts, poor little fella. so i am left with 2 quite lazy neutered boy rats in one very large cage. obviously my little brain starts turning to the idea of getting some new ratties to fill the cage a bit and liven my boys up :-)

i am a member of a rat forum called fancy rats and on there is a re-homing page and obviously i "stumbled" across that one day and saw some lovely little ratties for re-homing in a small rescue in surrey. i filled out the application form and sent it off. a few days later i received an email from one of the owners of the rescue who said that all the details on the form looked ok, that they would take up my references and give me a call back for a chat.

on the form they had asked whether i wanted boys or girls and whether these were to be introduced to an established group. i said that i had a pair of neutered boys and was quite prepared to take advice from the centre as to whether it was best to get young or old boys to mix in with my 2 as i had never done intros before. i had not at this stage really thought about getting girls. in the email back to me confirming my application was ok they raised the idea suggesting the intros would be easier with a boy / girl mix and also it was a more natural lifestyle as obviously in the wild they would be in mixed sex groups. ok though i...i´ll do whatever is advised. i was then shown a group of 7 girls all looking for a new home with a view of me adopting 2 of them.

so....thats where i am at. they called for the chat about 2 weeks ago and hubby and i are driving to surrey on saturday to pick out our new ratties :-) i´m VERY excited and can´t wait to meet them. also, a bit nervous about the intros but the rescue are very helpful and always there to answer questions and stuff so fingers crossed it will go well.

keep you posted :-)