Rachie's Ratirement Home

30/09/2025

Hey

Have you been wondering what we have been getting up to with the reopening and the next chapter of Rachie's Ratirement Home Inc.

Well, our President and Founder Grover has pulled together a really lovely Q3 Newsletter that talks about what we have been up to in the rat mines...

Check it out here: https://www.rachiesratirementhome.com/blog/2025-9-q3rrhnewsletter

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27/09/2025

Did you know that Tia, the incredible artist behind is supporting Rachie's Ratirement Home Inc through art right now.

These beautiful ORIGINAL watercolour artworks are available in their shop at the moment and 25% of sales will be donated to us - how incredibly generous ❤️🐀❤️

You can see Tia's shop here: https://ko-fi.com/grrreenrat/shop (link also in bio)

Our gratitude to Tia for their belief in us as we build this next chapter.

11/09/2025

The RRH Discord community can be found here (and in our linktree)...

https://discord.gg/Q3YCkHrp4b

21/08/2025

We may not be back in full operation just yet, but if you're looking to foster - check out this beautiful family at AWLQ! Get in touch via the email in the original post if you can help a mumma and some week old babies.

❤️ Grove

Wowsers, thanks community - a Foster carer has been sorted!!! 👌🥰
Ratty Mum Remmie & Her 5 Little Beans! 🐀💖

Remmie is a devoted rat mum, currently caring for her five adorable 2-week-old babies. She’s doing a wonderful job keeping them safe, warm, and fed, but she needs a calm, experienced foster home to support her and her babies during this critical early stage.

Important: Experience with mums and pups is essential. These babies are tiny, fragile, and completely dependent on their mum. Remmie is protective and gentle, and a skilled foster will know how to provide the right environment for them to thrive.

Foster requirements:

Gentle, patient handling of mum, and careful observation of the babies.

Warm, calm environment to allow the family to settle and grow.

Ability to care for the family until the babies are ready for weaning and eventual adoption.

This family is full of love and potential, and with the right experienced foster, they’ll grow up healthy, happy, and ready for their forever homes.
Please email: [email protected] if you can assist.

12/08/2025

Hey everyone! Long time no see ❤️
Here's a bit of an update on the rescue, cliffsnotes version is:
🐀 We're back after a year rest break!
🐀 Rental crisis is still nuts, for now we're decentralizing and trialling a foster based system set to open first in the Brisbane region atba date to be announced, starting with a small pilot program. (Which modern data now says is better for the animals.)
🐀 Our first meeting called for anyone interested in being a part of it to propose ways forward and see if we had the interest in going ahead - we do, and we have a good pathway of support programs to implement as we go!
🐀 Our second meeting was about establishing the volunteer space, getting people set up with tasks and 1:1 help getting the feel of it, talking about what's important to us all, what we'd like to see implemented, how to bake in burnout management from the start, and making the system comfortable, sustainable and fun to be in.
🐀 This week I'll be online in the Discord and voice chat for extended office hours (10-6 on Wednesday and Friday, 2-6 on Sunday) for anyone to come get onboarded, matched up with a task, parallel play through stuff, ask whatever questions you like, etc.

It's not often rescue orgs like us get a chance to have a genuine break followed by a chance to completely overhaul and optimise our practice. We've been a nationally acclaimed rescue just by doing our best then, I'm so so excited for what we can be after taking everything we've built and learned over the last near decade and whittling it into its best self.

If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, there's currently openings to work from home on tasks both large and small, straightforward and creative. Soon we'll be moving on to fundraising, socials, foster etc but we're going at a very deliberately measured pace and setting up one area at a time, so please forgive us for being super quiet on socials! Whatever your skillset or interests, you're welcome to jump in and keep your finger on the pulse, or get involved with the team that are building this thing back up from rock solid foundations! (You're even welcome to just come goof around in the social channels. ❤️)

Discord link: https://discord.gg/7YZdJdAQUq

Hope to see you all around!
❤️ Grove

05/08/2025

Hello !

Our next community meeting will kick off at 10am this Sunday 10th August via Zoom with the meeting agenda available in our RRH Discord.

If you haven't already done so, please join us in the Discord space. This is the community planning and engagement space between these bigger discussions.

*All links that follow have been added to our profile linktree*

Join the RRH Discord via this link: https://discord.gg/GtAjwBSa

If you haven't already completed the expression of interest to be involved, please head here to let us know so that we can send you the meeting information: https://airtable.com/appJTTn9ZDykTWPUW/pagZLcmSV69wOlRyg/form

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions!

Looking forward to seeing you!

on behalf of

Photo from Amy's archive of gorgeous mischief meetings over a bowl of good food because snacks are ALWAYS important!

05/08/2025

Hello !

Our next community meeting will kick off at 10am this Sunday 10th August via Zoom with the meeting agenda available in our RRH Discord.

If you haven't already done so, please join us in the Discord space. This is the community planning and engagement space between these bigger discussions.

Join the RRH Discord via this link: https://discord.gg/GtAjwBSa

If you haven't already completed the expression of interest to be involved, please head here to let us know so that we can send you the meeting information: https://airtable.com/appJTTn9ZDykTWPUW/pagZLcmSV69wOlRyg/form

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions!

Looking forward to seeing you!

on behalf of

Photo from Amy's archive of gorgeous mischief meetings over a bowl of good food because snacks are ALWAYS important!

16/07/2025

Hello Everyone!

We recently met for the first of a series of community meetings to work out the next chapter of Rachie's Ratirement Home Inc.

We will be adding an update to the website in the coming days with some of the key discussion points and next steps if you are interested in seeing what we are thinking.

The Discord is alive and pumping with volunteers talking, planning and checking out what we are doing!

We ALSO have our next community meeting planned - details below.

Date: Sunday 10th August 2025
Time: 10am start, meeting for approximately 90mins.

If you aren't registered to be part of the community meetings complete the EOI here (see the Linktree in our bio for a click-able link) so we can send you the meeting link.

You can also register here: https://airtable.com/appJTTn9ZDykTWPUW/pagZLcmSV69wOlRyg/form

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us via [email protected]!

on behalf of