NZ Fancy Rat Society

04/06/2025

Scruffians Rattery is looking at making packs of rat stuff. What do you find hard to get for your rattiers?

After quite a few of my last round of adopters had trouble finding things for their cages I'm thinking on making packs that can be used to set up a cage like this (which is my one of my baby cages for bubs 3 - 8 weeks old) Is this something you might be keen on? Let me know in the comments :)

02/04/2025

One of our Auckland Registered Breeders Misty's Mischief Rattery is having an open day on 12 April, please contact them directly if you would like to attend.
https://www.facebook.com/events/570128392091721

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27/03/2025

Yesterday Winnie's Rattery welcomed the first fluff to fluff litter born in New Zealand! This litter is an exciting first for the NZ Registered Breeders who have been working on improving the health and genetic diversity of the fluffy line for many years! Keep an eye out for updates on these special babies!

Yesterday morning Mabel and Frank welcomed 13 little babies! Mabel was being her silly self and climbing all up the bars of the maternity cage up until the night before giving birth!

Mabel and all her babies are doing well 🩷🐀

21/03/2025

Exciting news everyone! The NZFRS is doing a group order from Savic of some awesome cages, we will need orders in by 1st April at the latest. If you are keen please email us at [email protected]. Check out the different cage options below 🐭❤

19/03/2025

Are you thinking of getting ratties? Here are some great smaller cage set up ideas from Bohemian Rattery NZ - Registered Breeder.

If you already have quite a few rats and are thinking of a cage upgrade they have some AMAZING large cage ideas on their website: https://www.bohemianrattery.com/welcome-to-bohemian-rat-city

15/03/2025

We love supporting new breeders! Here's how you can join the NZFRS as a registered breeder:

12/03/2025

After a long long break, one of New Zealand’s most well known ethical rat breeders is back! Scruffians Rattery has been on hiatus for the past two years and has just had a litter born to Djin; a sweet champagne girlie 💕

Keep an eye on scruffians page to see the updates on these little babies, plus more babies expected any day now from Sprite 💗🐀

Djinn's babies are here! Eleven altogether, all looking great with no bruising and good milk bands :) They arrived this morning after a quick easy birth and Djinn has been an excellent mum so far. She's nipped out once for a snack of apple crumble and scrambled eggs which is when I snaffled the babies for a quick photo.

12/03/2025

Lots of NZFRS registered breeders are expecting litters at the moment! Keep an eye on Ratbags Rattery for updates on Tifa 💗

Tifa has a nice nest all set up and has no interest in coming out so hoping to hear some eeps very soon! 🤞

04/03/2025

Hello lovely rat friends! 🐭❤

The NZFRS is looking in to *potentially* importing some larger rat cages such as the Savic Royal/Critter Nation/something similar. While nothing is confirmed yet, we’d love to hear from the rat community before moving forward with any decisions.

Please let us know your thoughts:

1. Which larger rat cages would you love to see available here in NZ?
2. How much would you be willing to pay for a cage?
3. What other rat products would you like to see available in NZ?

Any feedback would be hugely appreciated ✨

13/01/2025

Have you tried giving your rats any problem solving challenges? Lots of the puzzles designed for dogs and cats are great for rats too!

13/01/2025

If you're after some new hammocks to start the year off fresh we highly recommend Blossom's Rattery - they have an amazing variety of types and colours and their hammocks are so well made