Radiant Rodentry

06/09/2024

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
1️⃣Submit adoption form.
2️⃣Submit a photo of your setup.
3️⃣Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
(Ask questions if unsure or want to double check with us before buying cage or items).

WHAT WE WILL DO:
1️⃣Add you to our waitlist once you’ve completed an adoption form.
2️⃣Provide feedback on your setup.
3️⃣Organise an adoption day.

WEBSITE:
🛜 https://www.liinks.co/radiantrodentry

NOTE: Please read the above care information in the link provided before asking any questions.

All your links, social media, music, videos, and more in one place.

05/09/2024

FRIENDLY REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR PETS TEETH! 🦷

Talking about this yesterday, thinking about it I believe it’s something that not a lot of people would even think to check, or be aware of that if left unchecked and untreated the potential dangers and cause of concern malocclusion can cause.

“In a rat with malocclusion, the teeth are not aligned properly, and natural grinding cannot take place. The incisor(s) continue to grow and curve, and if not kept trimmed results in trauma to the soft palate, infection, and abscesses, which in turn will eventually lead to the rat starving. Malocclusion may be due to injury (such as loss of a tooth due to root damage or trauma), dental disease, genetics, tumors, or other noninfectious reasons.”

These photos are examples from google and other rat groups to help give you an idea.

The Rat Guide: Malocclusion
https://ratguide.com/health/digestive/malocclusion.php

WikiHow: How To Prevent & Treat
https://www.wikihow.pet/Prevent-and-Treat-Overgrown-Teeth-in-Mice

04/09/2024

REMINDER TO PLEASE REHOME OR SURRENDER RESPONSIBLY! 🙏🏻

Domestic mice and rats are NOT like wild rodents.

DO NOT EVER RELEASE PET MICE OR RATS IN THE WILD. They do not have the same inbuilt instincts.

They will starve and suffer and die slowly and painfully, imagine other possibilities, imagine how scared, terrified and confused they would be? 😔

Please always be mindful of your surroundings too and of strange boxes left near dumpsters or odd places, you never know whose life you might just save one day.

If you need any assistance to do so please contact us and I’ll try my best to help! 🩷 🐀 🐁

EDIT: Thankfully these babies were found in time and the person who did this has been reported.

03/09/2024

EDIT:
I still rescue, I have no plans of permanently stopping even though I’m currently taking a brake and will be going forward with a different approach.
I just want to create awareness and options with this post and show not everything related to breeder vs rescue is black and white.

A few posts last night got me thinking…

Majority of society pushes so hard the “Adopt don’t Shop”
slogan and typically there’s some backlash when people choose to add animals to their family from a breeder.
This goes for all species.

There are some horrible breeders out there, the ones who have given all breeders a bad wrap.
There are also some really horrible “rescues”.

It comes down to personal ethics and goals, some breeders are amazing and are pouring in their time, money and energy into improving animal quality while some are purely in it for selfish reasons.

The latter breeder’s animals are the ones who in majority take up rescue spots, they don’t screen homes, they don’t track their pedigrees, they don’t care to improve animal quality, they refuse to change despite information out there, they produce more animals than they can keep up with. They sell to ANYONE.

Almost every single rat that ends up in rescue is because of these breeders.
They cause such a massive strain on rescues and their resources.

A good breeder pours their life into making the rat fancy better, will always take their rats back and will give you support ongoing after adoption.

There is no such thing as a perfect breeder, ethical breeders still have issues they’re working towards minimising, they’re trying their best, they do it for the love of the species and to make things better not worse.

These breeders deserve to be supported by the rest of the rat fancy, ethical breeding and having standards are one of the ways to fix the bigger problem from ground up.
Without them we are at the mercy of breeders in it for the wrong reasons and I can’t stress enough rescue will not solve the deeper issue at hand. EVER.
Ethical breeding and education will at least get a semi handle on things and it gives owners the very needed opportunity to choose what’s right for them.

There are others who have been and are in rescue and have passion for the rat fancy across Australia who have chosen to breed in an attempt to increase chances of strong health and behavioural soundness and to give their states the option to buy from an ethical source and I’m grateful to be in touch with such breeders.
I can only hope WA can follow suite in the coming years.

Thank you,
Pixie Paws Rodentry
Radiant Rodentry
Right Paw Rattery
(Amongst others local and over in the East States)

This is coming from someone who has seen the damage caused by breeders not giving a crap, from someone who has and is pouring everything they have into trying to make things better, from someone who’s cried an endless amount of tears for rescues, from someone who TRULY loves rats.

Rescue is always worth the support but so is ethical breeding. It’s time to change our societal view.

(Below is generalised, same pros and cons can go for either or)

29/08/2024

3x Male Mice Available Now 🏡

Pickup Cranbourne East

08/08/2024

Checkout our website too!

We’ve recently updated a lot of the information and I’m still in the midst of adding more.

Big thanks to Pixie Paws Rodentry and Rats for Life Rescue & Sanctuary for finding these new cages we’ve come across.

https://www.liinks.co/radiantrodentry

08/08/2024

HI EVERYONE! 🥰

I would LOVE to start a comment thread section of photos of your fur-babies that have been adopted from us (past, present or future)! 🫶🏻

Would love to be able to visit this thread to remember their cute little faces; as you guys know how much I love getting updates.

Post any photos of your adorable little ones below and anything else you might want to add 👇🏻

08/08/2024

Two 4 month old girls looking for their forever home 🏡

To be adopted together:

1x Agouti
1x Mink (look at those whiskers)!

Located Cranbourne East, Melbourne.

18/07/2024

Any day now 🥰

17/07/2024

Goregous little Sable girl 🥰

Home already lined up for her.

7-8 Weeks Old.

17/07/2024

Beautiful Hereford girl 😍

Look at those ears and the size of her body, I was going to adopt this one out but decisions, decisions.

She’s only 7-8 weeks old.

16/07/2024

✨ Rat Cage Inspiration ✨

12/07/2024

If you aren’t already following them you should checkout TWR on TikTok! 💕

10/07/2024

Another day socialising and handling the babies, nearly 4 weeks old. Halfway there until ready for their new homes.

25/06/2024

WHAT RAT CAGES DO WE CURRENTLY RECOMMEND?

1. Savic Zeno 2 Rat Cage $150
2. Bono Fido Ferret & Rat Cage $160
3. Crazy Sales Rat Cage $380

✅ Minimal is 80cm x 50cm = 4,000
✅ Ideal is 90cm x 60cm = 5,400
🙅🏻‍♀️ Petbarn cage is 61cm x 35.5 = 2,165.5

I hope more people would review the Petbarn “rat”cage as unsuitable. Sadly we see it all too often, usually accompanied with a lack of enrichment and zero bedding.

Why wouldn’t you now spend an extra $12 because look at the Savic Zeno 2’s price drop! 🤩

23/06/2024

Please help us! 🥺
It’ll only take 1-2 minutes of your time.

For some reason there seems to be an error occurring with our Facebook reviews. Facebook seems to keep removing them, we’ve lost almost nearly more than half of them over the past couple days, but on google we’ve noticed the same ones are still there. Not sure why but it really just clicked in my head today when I saw it and have no idea what’s going on.

We already lost all our reviews when we switched over from Kitty’s Mousery to Radiant Rodentry mainly on our google page which was already disheartening but this time it’s even upsetting considering those reviews really mean a lot to me and I have no idea why they are disappearing. They help give me that positive reassurance and encouragement that what I’m doing is actually noticed and appreciated and genuinely means something to someone.

Especially when there’s a lot of what I do that goes unnoticed, and lately I’m feeling; taken advantage of, ideas stolen, feeling very used and tired from a lot of things and there’s a lot of days that make me just want to quit altogether because it can get so overwhelming and emotionally and physically taxing from it all.

Please if you have adopted from us, or if you have reached out to us for advice before and we’ve assisted you or you been following us and admire what we do and want to help support us it would really mean a lot to me if you could check to see if it was one of yours that was removed or add a new one to help us 😓 it’s kind of taken me back a bit and now I’m in my head overthinking I’ve done something wrong and have no clue why this is happening.

Please help by adding a review to our Facebook and/or Google page or please if I have done something wrong or you are concerned about anything at all please message us asap and I’ll try my best to help you out. I always try my best to help, I think some people don’t realise there’s a lot more that goes into this than you realise and it’s 99% a solo operation over here run by one human named Kitty/Kat. As most of you know I always try and do my best to improve upon all aspects.

Picture for tax of my first two girl rats; Pixie and Zelda. Missing them so much, missing them and the simple days 💔😔

21/06/2024

Attempting to do the daily water and food checks tonight but someone just wants lots of love and affection and to say hello. She’s such a friendly and affectionate girl, I love this little girl so much. Can’t believe she’s now 20 months old, where has the time gone.

Lola is the original dam to a lot of our lines (I held back 5 of her daughters from her very first litter and 1 son in hopes to continue her amazing personality and health).

Lola is a grandma (Granddaughter named Abby - who is so sweet and docile and very large chunky girl) and Lola is soon to be a great grandma hopefully if our next pairing is successful! 🥰

17/06/2024

✨ BEHIND THE SCENES - MILK BANDS ✨

This poor little pup was the only one I spotted in our blue mummas nest this morning. I had such a strong sense of urgency to check in on her to see if she had given birth yet and this little wee pup was all I found.

No visible milk band which is a huge concern! 🙅🏻‍♀️

Laboured breathing was also visible and look at how sucked in the stomach is. I instantly moved this pup in with another nursing mum, she instantly accepted the pup as one of her own.

I kept checking multiple times throughout the next couple of hours, but not too much to give mum anxiety, the belly had more circumference to it but the milk band wasn’t as visible, after spending all day checking, and trying to do all I can do to help and keep mum happy… well upon my last check I am so pleased with what I saw!

Checkout this BIG BELLY! This all happening in the last 24 hours. Before photo was taken this morning at around 10:30am and the after photos were taken at around 4:30am.

Milk bands are such an important thing to be aware of and constantly checking as a breeder, especially the early stages it’s extremely crucial. If I hadn’t checked this babe or observed no milk band this poor little one wouldn’t have made it.

17/06/2024

Update: Kimmy had 14 beans! 🥰

13/06/2024

Meet Kimmy, who is due tomorrow! 💖
How many beans do we think? 🫘

09/06/2024

⚠️ ALWAYS BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT GOES INTO THEIR CAGES! 😣 - REMINDER/EXAMPLE ⚠️

Today I walked into the pet room today, ironically I was looking at the girls hammock late last night after I cleaned the boys cage “going it’s pretty clean but boy you guys have torn the bottom a lot to get into it,” (so thinking to myself yep, definitely will replace that, next cage to clean). Well today LITERALLY as I was reaching above their cage to get the storage box down with my spare hammocks to replace the girls hammocks (the young baby girls have been having a chewing blitz since adding them to the main cage).

Anyhow, as I was bringing down the box I heard, sudden loud and startling squeaks. I looked and observed, at first I thought she was squeaking at the older rat nearby but then noticed she wasn’t moving around much. Closer on inspection her little foot had hammock material wrapped tightly around it, it wasn’t coming off. I tried gently picking her up to get it off her and she bit me, then wedged herself into a difficult spot to access her.

I called for my housemate to come and get gloves and to give me a hand quickly (she somehow even bit him through the garden gloves - poor thing must have been in so much pain, this is not a situation you ever blame the rat for biting). Anyway, we cut it off her carefully, it looked pretty swollen not sure how long she actually had it on for the poor thing but definitely only happened sometime today in the span of a few hours, we’ve been home all day and would have definitely heard her squeaking if otherwise so I feel like I got there right on time thankfully enough.

HUGE reminder to always be careful of using any fabric materials in your cages and in general always be cautious of any toys or materials you add.

DISCLAIMER: Old hammock was disposed of and fresh one swapped over (mind you they have three large hammocks they just decided to be biased towards this one hammock).

PS. This little lady is actually seeking a home with her sisters. For anyone wanting a rat with a bit of a story behind them, we’ve actually never had anything like this happen before in all our years owning rats.
So glad she is safe. ❤️❤️❤️

03/06/2024

UPDATE: ADOPTED
4 Males Now Available For Adoption 🏡

Location: Cranbourne East or Hallam, VIC

02/06/2024

This is one example of the ideal type of temperament we are continuously working towards and why I do what I do. This was taken roughly only just one week after being adopted by a lovely customer of ours who gave us permission to post this video on our page.

Before being adopted, they were already coming straight to the cage door to say hello only at around 5-6 weeks old, whenever I entered the room with limited amount of handling given prior (too much handling can mask natural temperament we find - important things to know and be aware of from a breeders perspective when working out future pairings).

The mumma’s we still own (Daphne and Luna) and will try to get one more litter from them which will be our next planned pairings before they retire (which will be their second litter of their lifespan).

GUIDELINES WE FOLLOW WHEN BREEDING RATS:
- Minimal age to breed a doe should be 5 to 6 months old (to ensure she is healthy and robust and has a good amount of weight on her).
- Minimal age to breed a buck should be 9 to 12 months old (IMO to help rule out hormonal aggression as this can appear in males up until the age listed above).
- Doe to ideally have no more than 2 litters in lifespan with at least 3 months break between litters to regain weight and condition.
- Buck not to be overbreed to ensure he able to maintain healthy weight and condition.
- Not to be bred after 12 months if she has never produced a litter.
- Not to be bred after 15 months if she has had one litter prior.
- Babies to be weaned at 5 weeks, boys to be removed to reduce chance of pregnancy. Girls to stay in with mums for further nursing.
- Boys introduced to our adult male rat residents to help gain confidence and social skills.

PS. I will be having major surgery in October this year, so just a heads up in advance that the Rodentry may be closed around this period of time for approximately 4 weeks.

NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION:
- Experienced hobby breeder of 3-4 years, previously known as Kitty’s Mousery.
- Breeding to improve health and temperament, only breeding to keep our lines going and increase upon each next generation and when we have adequate numbers in demand.
- Remember they are animals, not products.
- We never want to be a part of that “too many rats needing homes,” but instead offer an option for ethically sourced animals.
- Occasional rescue of surrenders and rehabilitation.
- All adoption fees go towards helping to cover the cost of the animals and their care needs.

SIDE NOTE: if you have adopted from us previously and have not left a review on our Facebook and/or Google page please assist us to continue doing what we do by doing so. Especially as we don’t make any profit from this and I give you a lot of my own personal time and energy to try and do my best for you and the animals I adopt out.

PayID is now available to make things easier for those wishing to adopt from us.
Using email address: [email protected]

Donations are always accepted and appreciated to help support our programs as well as the rescues we also take in from time to time to help rehabilitate and rehome them.

Facebook: https://facebook.com/radiantrodentry/

Google: https://g.co/kgs/6MWWiqb

Care Sheet Information:
https://www.liinks.co/radiantrodentry

EXTRA RESOURCES:
-https://nfrs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Code-of-Ethics-November-2016.pdf
-https://nfrs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NFRS-Code-of-Practice-October-2019.pdf
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1brtYM0Eym9rSi462_t-bc1BB3N6aR9hl_SM6VvUtaW8/edit

13/05/2024

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share some inspiration! Please feel free to share your setups below and any enrichment ideas you have!

This is mainly to help new and existing mice and rat owners who are still learning and need some ideas.
🥰🥰🥰

***Disclosure: the first 25 are aimed towards mice, the other 15 are for rats.***

Essential Mouse Checklist:
- Mouse Cage
- Small Igloo
- Food
- Water Bottle
- Bedding (Kiln Dried Pine, Aspen, H**p)
- Nesting Materials (Shredder Paper, Tissues, Straw)
- Climbing Toys (Bird Toys)
- Chew Toys (Bird Toys)
- Tunnels (Toilet Rolls or PVC Pipes)
- Mouse Carrier

Optional Mouse Checklist:
- Hammock (20cm by 20cm)
- Toilet (Recycled Kitty Litter)
- Sputnik
- Ceramic Food Bowl (Recommend Scatter Feeding)

IMO Mouse Cage Requirements:
- Recommended Wheel: 20cm
- Minimal Cage Size: 40cm x 30cm x 20-30cm H
- Recommended Size: 80cm x 50cm x 30-40cm H
- Recommened Bar Spacing: 0.6-1cm
- Males: To be housed solo
- Females: To be housed in groups 3+
- Mouse Cage Calculator: https://www.petmousefanciers.com/portal

Essential Rat Checklist:
- Rat Cage
- Hammock (34cm by 34cm)
- Food
- Water Bottle
- Bedding (Kiln Dried Pine, Aspen, H**p)
- Nesting Materials (Shredder Paper, Tissues, Straw)
- Toilet (Recycled Kitty Litter)
- Climbing Toys
- Chew Toys

Optional Rat Checklist:
- Medium Igloo
- Sputnik
- Ceramic Water Bowl
- Ceramic Food Bowl

IMO Rat Cage Requirements:
- Recommended Wheel: 35-40cm (Optional)
- Minimal Cage Size: 80cm x 50cm x 50-60cm H
- Recommended Size: 90cm x 60cm x 60-70cm H
- Recommened Bar Spacing: 1-1.5cm
- Males: To be housed in groups 3+
- Females: To be housed in groups 3+
- Rat Cage Calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/rat-cage

⚠️ REMEMBER! ⚠️
- Tons of bedding! Remember they are fossorial animals!
- CLUTTER, CLUTTER AND MORE CLUTTER!
- NO Wire/Metal Wheels
- NO Wire/Metal Platforms
- Be aware of signs of symptoms of illnesses and pain to lookout for.
- Be aware of exotic vets in your area.
- Avoid pet stores and backyard breeders.
- Adopt from rescues and ethical breeders only.
- Avoid going below temperatures of 16 degrees.
- Avoid going over temperatures of 28 degrees.

If I’ve left anything out let me know! 😊

WAYS TO SPOT BACKYARD BREEDERS:
- They avoid or unable to answer questions.
- They won’t offer advice.
- They don’t provide ongoing support.
- There is no screening process (no adoption forms and/or asking to see your setup).
- They won’t accept their animals back if something goes wrong.
- They will not show you their setup and/or let you meet the parents.
- They just breed any random two animals together for no purpose.
- They can’t workout the genders.
- They sell them super cheap.

ENRICHMENT IDEAS:
- Pet stores (bird toys, reptile hides)
- Dollar stores
- Bunnings (Seagrass mats, PVC pipes, rope)
- SHEIN
- Temu

09/05/2024

Deek the reverse Siamese Manx buck that was adopted on the 25th of April had full enclosure changeover and revamp, the owner of this little man has done an incredible job and in such a short period of time too!

This is what we love to see! 🥰🥰🥰
Very loved and spoiled little man.