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Personalised care for your rats in our home.
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31/01/2024

PLEASE NOTE A PRICE INCREASE FOR 2024.

I appreciate that everything is going up and I have kept my prices the same since I started in 2022 but given that I provide everything for your rats holiday and I do not charge for vet visits other than £5 for petrol, I do not charge for giving medications, and your rats get a fabulous holiday, I have had to increase my prices by £2 per day for up to 4 rats.

Please remember I only board 1 mischief at a time unless there are extenuating circumstances so your rats receive 1 on 1 care whilst in my home.

We hope you will continue to use The Rat Nanny as we love all our guests very much 💜💜

17/11/2023

We are a bit sad this end as we have said goodbye to one of our girls. She hadn't reached two years old yet but unfortunately she had a Pituitary Tumour (PT).
She will be buried in our garden with all our other ratties and a special flower will be chosen for her to grow.
Sweet dreams my Penny-Pops, we miss you lots 💜🌈🌈🌈

09/11/2023

So let's talk about Vets.....
At the moment I have three ratties in my home all on different types of medications. I have no problems with giving my guests medications, all I ask is that you clear it with me first. If you turn up with a poorly rat that you haven't not spoken to me about when filling out my forms then your rats cannot stay with me, this is because I have my own rats health to take into consideration and also my own liability with a poorly rat.
I am always happy to take a rat to a vet, I normally use my own exotic vet who is very experienced, but if you have a rat savvy vet and the distance isn't too far then I am happy to go to them if your rat becomes poorly.
Small animals of any kind can become poorly quite quickly and if I notice anything amiss you will be messaged immediately. I have quite the first aid kit for my rats from special high calorie food, to pain relief and antibiotics so if it's the weekend and I feel it doesn't need the emergency vets I can help your rat along until a normal vets open on a Monday.

Please be assured your rats health and wellbeing are first and foremost when boarding with me.

Here is sweet Loki coming out at a vet trip today to say hello to people 🥰

08/11/2023

Rocco, Loki and Ash having a good explore of their holiday room

08/11/2023

Sweetcorn munchies

08/11/2023

Rocco helping me water the dig box

08/11/2023

Loki enjoying the puzzle

08/11/2023

And now we have Ash, Loki and Rocco who are here for just under a month with me. Again very sweet, polite boys. They're really enjoying the beautiful cat tree that was gifted to us by a previous client 😭

08/11/2023

So this is Stan, Eddie and Rio. 3 rescues who have found their forever home now but are still quite anxious boys on occasions. Such sweet polite boys.

08/11/2023

We have had a mad few weeks here at The Rat Nanny. Firstly I got asked to take a last minute booking, now normally I would have said no as their leave date was a date when another booking was arriving but I heard the circumstances and had to say yes 😬 so three rescue boys came to stay for a week, then 3 more arrived once the rescues had gone home. 2 days after they arrived I had surgery on my right arm so I've been trussed up like a turkey for the past week, but I've still been able to spend time with our guests.
Enjoy the photos that follow.

20/10/2023

We've had some unexpected but very exciting news this end. Not only is one of our amazing clients gifting us with a cage but they're also gifting us with all the stuff their rats had. Whilst our hearts are sad that their rat journey has come to an end, we are very grateful that they thought of us for all their treasured rats belongings. So visiting ratties will have some exciting new toys to play with and climb in the rat room, they will also have an upgraded cage too!
We won't mention their name but they know who they are and I hope they know that we are very grateful 💜💜💜💜💜

16/10/2023

Want to know how I became a Rat Servant? Here's a video explaining how rats found me....enjoy 💜💜💜

29/09/2023

I am taking a week off so I will reply to any messages upon my return on Monday 9th October.

The Rat Nanny 💜

21/09/2023

Let's talk about heart rats. So for those who don't know what a ❤️ rat is, it is a rat who you have a once in a lifetime connection with. They have something special about them that connects with you on a deeper level than any other rat. That doesn't mean you don't love all the other rats you have, it's just that this one rat talks to your soul.
This was my ❤️ rat and her name was Tufty. She was probably taken away from her Mum too young so she was always very small and had numerous health issues.

When I first brought rats 8 years ago, I thought you could only buy rats from a pet shop, so I went to one that had a good reputation in my town (not the BIG named pet shop). What I didn't know was that if you buy rats from a pet shop you are helping to fund back yard breeding (BYB). So now, after years of having rescues, we have properly bred rats from a registered NFRS breeder so I know that the Mum is well cared for and doesn't have back to back litters.

So the second mischief of 4 girls that we purchased were possibly bred from a female rat who gave birth to back to back litters 😥 3 of the girls passed away after developing fast growing mammary tumours. Tufty, despite having a constant snuffle and ears that smelt like bum (not that I go around smelling people's bums but that's the best description I could give the vet 😁) and not growing very big, was actually quite healthy. That was until she started growing a tumour on her face near her eye. Her eye wasn't affected but my concern was that the tumour could grow into her brain and I didn't want her to suffer seizures so we had her PTS. She was still behaving like a normal rat and still tormented her sisters but as I didn't want her to suffer we decided to take her to the vet earlier rather than later.
The reason why she was my heart rat was because she needed so much care when she first came to us and a lot of meds that she almost imprinted on me. When I had my breakfast in the morning she would be there waiting by the cage door for me so she could sit on my shoulder, under my fleece and nibble on some toast. She would hang off the bottom of my trousers when she was on free roam when she wanted to be up on my shoulder. She would sit outside my daughter's bedroom door and sneeze loudly until my daughter opened the door and let her in. If my daughter wasn't quick enough to open the door then Tufty would start pulling at the corner of the carpet (we have a small bald patch by the door now) until the door was opened. When my daughter wasn't there then Tufty didn't bother going near the door. She used to hide in my fleece and go to the shops with me which she loved to do.

I have loved all my rats, and I miss them all, but Tufty was something special.

18/09/2023

Have a giggle today 😁💜

18/09/2023

Cleaning the floor after my Grandbun has been staying. He was a bit of a norty bunny, watch the video to find out why! 😱

13/09/2023

Since I have no ratties staying at the moment here are some photos of my girls enjoying some chicken bones this evening.
If your rats have their holiday with me they will receive exactly the same food my girls get, and that includes chicken bones when I cook a roast chicken. I love watching them run off with the bones 🥹🥹

(These are photos of 4 of my 5 girls)

11/09/2023

How do I wash the bedding your rats use? Here's a video that explains it 😊💜

05/09/2023

Thanks to my daughter for sending me this gem 😂

02/09/2023

This is my Miss Mabel who is an Esprit-Gemini girl and she just loves digging in her bio-active base 🥰

02/09/2023

My gorgeous Grandbun enjoyed some time outside today. We did end up putting up a barrier as he wanted to go further than I felt was safe for him.

29/08/2023

No rats this week (boo) but I do have my beautiful Grandbun staying with me for 10 days (yay). He's a grumpy bunny who enjoys a good poo party (see behind him in this video?), hay and bananas.

23/08/2023

Part 2 of the Rat Room clean

23/08/2023

So I have now cleaned everything in this room including the walls and the door. I clean the floor on my hands and knees with a bucket and a floor cloth to make sure I really get that floor really clean ready for our next guest!

22/08/2023

Part 1 of the Rat Room clean.

21/08/2023

Pricing for The Rat Nanny;

£12 per day for up to 4 rats then £1 per extra rat after that. This includes;

•All substrate
•All hammocks (though I do ask you to bring one or two of their own hammocks for a familiar smell)
•All food (I make my own based on the Shunamite Diet)
•High calorie food if required for elderly rats
•The use of the cage
•Their own Ratty castle which I will make for them out of cardboard boxes
•All rat safe treats
•Free roam time 60-120 mins per day (unless your rats are free roam all day then the cage door will be opened in the morning and closed at night)
•Poop tray pellets
•Any medications required as prevention from URI/UTI's (please discuss with me first)
•Lots of cuddles

21/08/2023

My last night with Lotta, Twix and Starfleet last night 😭😭 so lots of malt paste was required so I could get lots of cuddles in with them before the went home.

21/08/2023

On Friday night the girls had mackerel in tomato sauce for their treat meal and then fancied using me for climbing 🥰

16/08/2023

Lotta in the box!

16/08/2023

Hide and seek with all the snacks!

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