Whimsical Whiskers Rattery

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Whimsical Whiskers Rattery

We are a rattery specializing in healthy, tempermentaly sound friendly rats. Established 2020 - URC Affiliated.

03/03/2023

We apologize for the lack of activity in recent months, we took a bit of a breeding break while going through a few things.

We are HAPPY to announce that we will be reopen for public adoptions very very soon! We also have a wealth of new educational information and graphics to share with you all! 🥰

Please enjoy this photo of one of our newest additions to the rattery, this 17 day old cutie. ❤️

09/13/2022

We are happy to present our updated litters photos from our MoonShine (Russian Silver) line, we posted these the other day but due to Facebook's Pages update we clearly posted them in the wrong place and aren't sure where they went 🫣😅

This was a small litter of only four bucks three of which will be available for adoption and one which will be held back and is not featured in these photos.

We will be touching bases with those of you on our waitlist for this litter very very soon!! ❤️

09/05/2022

We are proud to present Tater-Tots first litter and the continuation of our Russian Silver line! Eyes have just peeped open the other day ❤️

This is a small litter of 4 boys, one of which will be remaining with us. We are so excited for this litter as our Russian Silver line is one of our pride and joys, a beautiful icy blue coat with Ruby red eyes.

The indoor lighting in these photos just cannot do justice to their true colour and we will have to plan a natural lighting shoot in the next few days. 😊

06/01/2022

The long awaited litter photoshoot has arrived.

ALMOST all current babies are shown here minus 3, as they kind of sorta got pee'd before their turn for photos 😅 (thanks brothers and sisters lol) so I will upload them later this week with clean furred photos lol

I thank everyone for their patience with these photos, in the past we used to post photos right from birth all the way through however recently Facebook has gotten a little upset and has been confusing newborn stage rats for nudity 😅 and as a result why we have chosen only to start posting photos of babies once they are definitely past that stage 🫣

These photos took a little bit more time to finalize than I thought they would, because the weather did not want to cooperate this weekend and none of the flowers wanted to open up and bloom, so photos were taken as the flowers co-operated.

They're also so many photos that I had to upload far more than I normally would, because they're too cute not to!

For those of you on our approved list for adoption, most of these babies will be available for reservation once they hit 5 weeks old, and as long as their temperament is suitable. 😊

And yes I promise these ARE different rats lol, we appear to have lots of Himalayan, and those points should grow in nicely 🥰

05/26/2022

❤️ eyes are open and they're running around, we are thinking of doing some group and individual photos this weekend 🥰

05/23/2022

Did someone say Orange?!

Introducing our Mothers Day litters.

We appear to have Fawn, Silver fawn, Champagne, and Himalayan in these litters. 🥰

05/01/2022

Today we lost a beloved member of our family.

Paddington, our soft squish of a boy passed while we slept.

His litters are due any day now, and we were going to take couples photos today.. unfortunately we cannot do so now.

Rest easy little buddy, we love you so much.

04/25/2022

We would like to introduce our most recent additions to our program at the rattery.

Tot & Walter. They are both brothers, the same age.

Tot is a Dwarf Siamese Dumbo, Walter is a potential dwarf carrying UK Mink.

We are absolutely smitten with both!

We hope to soon have a dwarf line. ❤️

04/21/2022

There is one thing I struggle with, and that's taking proper size comparison photos of hyper babies! I apologize for the poor quality, taking photos of one hyper and busy baby rat is easy, taking photos of multiple, well that's a bit more tricky 😂

However, we have had what appears to be yet another little dwarf pop up and will be doing a test breeding on this line to be absolutely sure.

We have decided to hold him back, and he is hereby known as 'Tot'.

You can see on the last photo how much more slender and short his tail is. The other buck is his brother Walter.

04/19/2022

I want to take a moment to talk about something that's been weighing us down a lot this year. I apologize that this is only partially rattery related.

In December of last year, we were harassed by an individual for standing up for something we believe in (I won't go into a lot of detail but we defended a fellow breeder/friend and the LGTB+ community), this harassment extended into our reviews and inbox, where some false and inaccurate claims were made by someone that has never met us or seen any of our beloved rats.

This has lead to an unfortunate decrease in posts from us, because frankly, it's scary to be targeted and harassed.

But we miss posting frequent updates, and we miss posting all the photos.

So we have decided we aren't holding back anymore, and we aren't afraid anymore. Our reviews will be reopening in the next few days (sadly we will likely be unable to remove the false reviews from this individual but will try our best), and you can expect A LOT more photos and posts from us.

We apologize for our lack of activity since then.

I debated posting about this for a long time now, and I think it's important that our wonderful adopters and friends are aware of why we have been more quiet this year.

04/04/2022

Due to an increasingly busy family life and some personal medical issues, we have decided to overhaul the way we do adoptions starting AFTER these litters.

We have found that we have been having trouble keeping up with our waitlist, and our email correspondence because of simply how busy we have become in life.

So moving forward from these two litters, we will be posting up photos of adoptable babies once they hit between 5-8 weeks old and allowing those of you that are **already pre-approved** to adopt from us the option to express your interest regardless of your position on our waitlist (again, AFTER these current litters go home), we feel like this would allow people to have more selection on their babies and to take some of the stress off of us as well.
It also would allow us to not worry about people that aren't going to respond to us when we reach out and ask if they are still interested in adopting because we have arrived at their waitlist spot, making the entire process hopefully smoother.

We will also be accepting a non-refundable deposit to hold babies from a specific litter if you wish, or are unavailable for the time when they are available for selection, this will be half the totally adoption amount. 😊

We will still not adopt until at least 8 weeks of age, and rats must still be adopted in at least pairs.

We have been considering this method for a while and now that we have reached the end of our original wait list and all of our current waitlisters are quite new to our list, we feel it is an optimal time to give this a try.

*The rat shown is not available, her new name is Badger and she's got a whole new family that's going to love her, isn't she cute??

03/29/2022

Hey everyone, we wanted to apologize for being slightly MIA lately, we unfortunately had to euthanize one of our strictly pet rats after a health decline, and then had a minor family situation pop up.

We thank you for your patience, and can't wait to upload all the photos we have taken during this time period around noon today. 😊

03/22/2022

We have decided we will be making some changes to our program.

We realize we have incredibly patient adopters and waitlisters, and we feel badly that sometimes the cards don't deal enough of the gender we would like, or that we have a smaller than we would like.

So we have decided to change the way we pair, and are going to begin pairing for our next litters before the current ones are weaned (as long as the parents are of age). We feel like this will help move our program forward faster, and of course, allow us to adopt out at a bit of a faster rate for all of you so very patiently waiting.

We APPRECIATE you all to the moon and back.

03/21/2022

We thank you all for your patience with our photoshoot and replies this weekend.

We have had a bit of a tummy bug going through our home at the moment, which has unfortunately eaten a lot of free time, but we are touching up the photos as fast as we can manage to get them up and loaded. 😊

03/20/2022

I thought we could all enjoy this little fellow falling asleep in my hands ❤️

This litter is so so sweet.

03/18/2022

A bit of a MINI photoshoot before we do the great big one with individual photos! ❤️

03/18/2022

While not the photoshoot photos we have planned, we just had to show off this adorable little boy!

He is falling asleep in this video, and we managed to catch a very tiny baby boggle!

03/17/2022

We PROMISE we have lots of photos of these little cuties planned within the next few days, we have been a little under the weather here at home recently, but boy do we have a fun photoshoot planned that we can't wait to show you all!!

To help tide you over, here is a hold back from one of our current litters, a very chubby little doe that we are taking name suggestions for!

03/11/2022

In the wee morning hours of March 7th, Joy and Pippins litter was born.

Unfortunately, there are only 4, but they are healthy chunky babies with marking beginning to creep in now. ❤️

03/08/2022

I absolutely love their little faces at this age. ❤️

03/05/2022

In the late hours of night on March 2nd we welcomed Sparkplugs first litter into the world.

02/28/2022

Our hearts are breaking for Ukraine.

War is horrible and nobody wins. :'(

We stand behind Ukraine for the right to remain a free and independent country.

02/13/2022

Little Daisy. ❤️

02/12/2022

We have some very exciting news.

We are undergoing a name change, and publishing our brand new site which we will continue to keep up to date.

Unfortunately, we were locked out of our old website after we lost the password, and have taken precautions that this never occurs again.

If you're interested in adopting, you can now access and complete our application through our website for your convenience.

Please bare with us as the official name change on our page can take up to 3 days to complete.

https://whimsicalwhiskers.pbwebs.com/

02/08/2022

Sometimes, despite the best efforts, a pairing isn't successful, defines it's the cold weathers fault, which is why is are sad to say we are going to have to attempt to repair both our bucks and does, as clearly neither of them took.

With rats, confirming pregnancy cannot really be done before the 3rd trimester, and even then some girls are quite sneaky at hiding a smaller litter 😅

So, we are so sad and disappointed, but hope that *this* time, with the warmer weather, we will have luck! 🤞

01/18/2022

A REMINDER that we unfortunately cannot access our rattery email linked through our website, please contact us via this page for waitlist inquiries.

We are so sorry for this inconvenience.

01/01/2022

When the new year rings, we always take a ment to pause and remember our lives ones that sadly are no longer here to ring it in alongside us physically.

We take a moment to say thanks, and to remember the light they brought to our lives, our days, and our hearts.

This year we said goodbye to our founding rats.

Shenzi passed away on May 18th, after labour complications that were unable to be helped even with emergency veterinary treatment. Her condition, while we were assured was very rare, shocked us to our core. We miss her daily, and we mourn her passing, and the babies we never got the chance to welcome into our heart and home.

Wilber passed away on Nov. 6th, just 2 weeks shy of his 3rd birthday due to old age. He was a rat that was rivaled by none, the sweetest marshmallow anyone could ever ask for. Our goal with breeding is simple, everyone deserves a Wilber in their life ❤️

Charlotte passed exactly one month after Wilber, although nowhere near 3 like he was, her clock said no more, and we could do nothing but respect that it was her time.

We miss them all so very dearly, and we couldn't have done any of this without them.

Thank you for being part of our family, we love you, and we wish you were here with us. ❤️

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Saskatoon, SK
S7K

Website

https://whimsicalwhiskers.pbwebs.com/

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Videos

Sleepy baby 🥺❤️

I thought we could all enjoy this little fellow falling asleep in my hands ❤️ This litter is so so sweet.

First boggle 🥺❤️ Sparkplug x Winston litter

While not the photoshoot photos we have planned, we just had to show off this adorable little boy! He is falling asleep in this video, and we managed to catch a very tiny baby boggle!

Daisy bathing while snuggly ❤️

Little Daisy. ❤️

Tibalt x Joy - two weeks old

Oh my goodness, two weeks old today and so much energy! ❤️

Tibalt x Joy litter - born October 30th 2021

Oh my gosh I always love this age, they're so sweet.

Wilber x Lucky litter ❤️

Oh they're so active and kissy!! We apologize for the lack of updates recently. Our testing will be completed by the end of this month. Once it's completed, pending good results, we will begin our adoptions once more!

Little Dreamer

Look at this tiny little dreamer! Fast asleep ❤️

Baby kisses anyone?

This little boy is showing just how friendly this litter is, they all love to hop on hands and give some tiny baby kisses. We have to say this is seeming to be our most friendly litter to date! Almost ready to move into the larger cage!