Stellar Rattery

03/31/2025

💫 STAR Lunafreya & STAR Socks 💫

I weighed a few babies this morning bc it's good for my records, now that they're 4w6d old.

Lucky (standard size male): 115g
Bluey (dwarf f): 59g
Bandit (dwarf m): 51g
Socks (dwarf f): 37g
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03/28/2025

🎂 It's my oldest daughter's 22nd birthday today so to celebrate, we had cheesecake for dessert and their heart rat Omega got to share with them 💛

03/26/2025

💛 NEW WEBSITE! 💛
Still a work in progress as I add a tonne of info and resources, but let's go!! 🎉
https://stellarrats.ca/

03/25/2025

💫 Bluey litter: the boys! 💫

Confirmed dwarf is Bandit -- he will be staying here at the rattery to pilot my dwarf program!
Snickers, Lucky, & Rusty are already reserved.

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03/25/2025

💫 Bluey litter: the Girls! 4 weeks old 💫

Confirmed Dwarfs are Socks & Bluey!
Our keeper for this litter Chili - her blaze is so striking!! 🔥

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03/24/2025

Upcoming breeder boys from 💕💕💕

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03/24/2025

The handsome big fellas from my mentor!! Totally in love with these chunks 💕

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03/24/2025

Current mama's! From the final Fantasy's litter, Luna is the mama of the bluey litter, and we're crossing fingers that Chocobo is pregnant with the cheese litter - they're part of the marten line I inherited from my mentor 💕

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03/24/2025

Upcoming mama's! Tornado and Wildfire are the pair of girls from my natural Disasters litter who will be continuing my house line 💫

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03/24/2025

These 3 gorgeous dwarf ladies have come to stay with us!!! From my lovely partner - they'll be pets only here and loved tremendously by all of us, especially my son!! 💕

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03/23/2025

My Adoption Application is now reopened! Please allow 48 hours for me to reply to your application. I have children & invisible illnesses as well as general SAHM duties, so I am not always available immediately nor on demand.

If you haven’t heard from me in 48 hours, feel free to send me a nudge/reminder via email, or a social media DM 🙂

Welcome to Stellar Rattery -- we are a small-scale family run fancy (pet) rat breeder located in London, ON. I have over 20 years experience raising and caring for these adorable pocket puppies, and experience with rescues, as well. I have been breeding since the early spring of 2023. We keep things...

03/21/2025

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03/20/2025

THEY/RE. SO. GORGEOUS.

STAR REN & WTCH PEACH DID SO GOOD!!!

03/20/2025

Well it's finally here!

The new and improved varieties section is now live. So as well as a complete list of all the UK varieties and there class standards I have also managed to turn this into a picture guide too which makes it so much better.

Been working on this section of The Rat Wiki for a few months now. I originally thought it would be a lot easier than it was after managing to source a good few pictures from very kind breeders and friends on the National Fancy Rat Society Forum. It was very difficult to find so many others though so after having a lot of work to do on other sections of the site I decided to make the varieties section mainly text only and all but gave up on the pictures.

However I'm glad to say I went back to it and after many more very generous NFRS breeders helped me out and a community drive from some great people over at the Midlands Rat Club community page I now have a NEAR complete library of varieties pictures to show off. I say near as there is still a few left that I need but with nearly 80 different ones in total I feel this is a great time to let others enjoy all the different colours, coats, markings and shaped on offer.

A massive thankyou to everyone kind enough to help me out on this it's been lovely to involve so many different people and so nice to have another example of the community all pulling together to make The Rat Wiki a better and more accurate source of information to current and future rat owners. I will continue whenever possible to get better and clearer pictures if I can.

Check out the new and improved Varieties page now:

https://theratwiki.co.uk/varieties/

And of course as always if you have any pictures of any varieties I have not yet added or you think you have some that can help improve the Varieties section more please feel free to message me on here or click on any of the email links on the website and I will usually get them all same day.

Thank you and I hope you all enjoy 😀

03/20/2025

UGH THEY'RE SO CUTE

03/20/2025

I've done quote a few introductions of my rats over the last 4 years. While I still use The Carrier method when needed, I also use this method or a hybrid ve...

03/20/2025

I don't make this post lightly, but I saw this earlier and it literally made me facepalm, because it's frankly idiotic from a behavioural standpoint.

Allowing bucks to be so studbucky in behaviour that they can't accept other rats as adults is just bizarre, and this unfortunately will result in lone rats, surely? Not everybody can source or create instant kittens, so they will unfortunately be alone, maybe for months, which isn't okay because rats are a SOCIAL SPECIES that thrive on the companionship of other rats.

I don't care if Marti comes after me again.
I'm really concerned that if this catches on (which it might), we are going to have a really big issue with rats suffering alone for possibly MONTHS whilst waiting for kittens.

There's also the issue that those lone periods can/will cause psychological damage in some rats....and guess what? That could then cause issues with intros to kittens. So what do you do then? Euthanise? Re-home? Keep alone? All this is entirely avoidable.

This just isn't okay.

We should be breeding for more adaptable behaviour in our rats, not more selectivity, rigidity and problematic behaviour.

What she is proposing, isn't even a 'rule' in wild rats, we have 150+ years of rat behavioural studies to show it's not true. Where on earth has this come from? It's certainly not evidence based, that's for sure.

This is a genuinely dangerous statement to make.