Interstellar Rattery

10/08/2024

Since I had the DSLR out to take photos of the newbies, I thought I should take some fancy pics of my keepers from my last 3 litters.

Better late than never 😅😅

I’ll be updating my website to include the new photos & my planned pairings.

10/08/2024

A very belated welcome post for these 3 ladies who joined us from White Rose Rattery and Winnie's Rattery.

Meet Gracie (black vari), Josie (cinnamon self) and Edie (agouti hood) 💗

Gracie & Edie come from our line - their mums are from out D & E litters. So it’s super exciting and special to have them join our Rattery.

Despite Josie’s humble markings, she has lots of exciting genes in her lines so it’s going to be exciting to see what pops up 💗

Ill be pairing these lovely ladies this year, so keep an eye out

03/08/2024

Ember is officially a grandma 👵🏻

Her daughter Galadriel joined Ratbags Rattery a few months back, and has just had her babies 💗💗

Follow their page for baby updates, especially for those in the South Island!

13 beautiful little babies! Galadriel is a very protective Mama, all are well fed and warm. We cant wait to see them all grow!

01/08/2024

Some very exciting changes for us at the register! We’ve formalised our society and are working towards being even better than before!

Give our page a follow & check out the giveaway too 💗

Exciting news! The Registered Rat Breeders have done a big revamp of our website and expanded and improved our club. We’re now an official incorporated society - The NZ Fancy Rat Society - and, while we’re still home to the registered breeders, we have expanded membership to include pet rat owners and everyone interested in rats. We’ll be sharing lots over the next few months, including breeder intros, tips and tricks, health and feeding info, how to’s, and competitions.

If you’d like to join the NZFRS membership is free, signing up is super simple, and we promise to send very few annoying emails. Check out our shiny new website for more info!

On the first of every month we’ll be running a competition. This month’s competition is for all new members - sign up and you’re in to win! Scruffians’ potential future stud Tiberius will pick a name at random and the winner will get a prize pack including a ‘rare’ green sputnik, a cozy winter snuggle sack and hammock set, and some natural willow twig chews.

Www.NZFRS.co.nz

03/06/2024

Long time so see!

We’ve got some lovely rats available for adoption:

Hestia & Juniper. They’re both PEW, but have different personalities. Juniper is such a sweetheart and Hestia is ultra confident.

These girls must be picked up from us in Wellington, no per transport this time sorry.

28/04/2024

All our babies have found their forever homes, so we will be having a wee break until July ish.

During this time, we won’t have any babies available.

If we do end up having some rats available, as always I will post here 😊

Keep an eye out on the page, as we’ve got some really exciting litters happening in July-September period! 💗

19/04/2024

Rattery update -

I’ve been a bit AWOL recently, due to my mental health. Because of this, I’ll be taking a big step back from rat breeding, which includes cancelling all my plans to work on the fluffy coat.

Breeding the fluffy coat is really difficult when you’re the only breeder in Wellington who is breeding for them. You end up needing to keep a lot of rats to keep the lines going, which is a lot. Especially when you’re also working on another line.

I will also be taking a wee break from breeding, probably until around July ish. But maybe more, just have to see how things go.

I’ll keep the page going & update my website with the planned pairings 💗

14/04/2024

And lastly my smallest litter - Jimmy & Juniper 💗

They’re both staying with me

14/04/2024

More photos! 💗

These guys all have homes lined up as well.

If they fall through, I’ll post here

14/04/2024

Sorry for being MIA, been quite unwell recently. But I’m back, with photo updates too!

Of course the day i planned to take pics, my speedlite/flash broke. So the standard of pics is not the norm 🥲🥲

Most of these guys have homes lined up already, and I’ll be in touch this week.

If any of the rats don’t end up going with their families, I’ll make a post here 💗

02/04/2024

Sorry for being MIA with adoption posts! Life is crazy right now!

Once I take all the rats pics this weekend, I’ll be contacting those on the waitlist with the available rats

We will also have a couple pairs of older girls who will be available for adoption as well. So if you’re looking for older girls, please message us.

Bonus pic of Jimmy with his dad Billy 🥹

27/03/2024

I love owning rats & being able to breed wonderful and healthy rats, but sometimes it can be hard.

Our gorgeous fluffy lady Heidi from Dragonites litter suddenly passed away last night.

Sometimes with the runty black eyed whites & masks we have, they can go from fine to not fine really fast. Heidi was pretty runty, so I knew she didn’t have a long time on earth.
But not this short 😭

Super bummed, as she was such a sweetheart & super goofy.

Upside is all the other babies are doing fantastic, and I’ll be contacting my waitlist next week some time about available rats 💗

22/03/2024

The 12 baby boys moved in with the big kids today!

As expected, the big kids were absolutely amazing and immediately accepted their new friends.

Here are some pics I took of them today 💕

Tomorrow I’m hoping to introduce the 3 mums together & their girls… but we will see. Cassie & Dragonite don’t really like each other 🙈

18/03/2024

I was shocked to discover both Billy & Dragonite carry fluffy, and have 3 fluffs!!

I never even expected this to be a possibility, as it’s been yonks since there were fluffs in their family tree, but the fluffy gene was hiding in plain sight! 😂

Here we have Hopper who is a fluffy BEW, Henry & Heidi the fluffy PEWs

They are all staying here, sorry. But we have some fluffy litters planned for April ish 💕

17/03/2024

Not long now til Dragonite & Eevees boys move in with the big kids 🥺

It’s crazy how fast these guys grow

15/03/2024

And lastly, Cassie’s little chunks!

Both are staying with me, but of course I have to continue sharing their pics 🥹🥹

15/03/2024

Here are Eevees kiddos!

A much easier litter to photograph compared to Dragonites! So many PEWs and identical variberks 😂

15/03/2024

Took some pics of the kiddos today. They’re most terrible quality, but I tried 😂

Babies were not keen on a photoshoot, and were more interested in playing and zooming around the cage.

I’ve been noticing a few of the babies had slightly different coats from their siblings, and it looks like Dragonite & Billy may be fluffy carriers! I’m excited to how their coats progress 👀

12/03/2024

Big kids are 3.5 weeks old now! In a weeks time, the boys will be moving in with the big boys, to learn some important rat social skills 😂

The lucky girls stay with their mum, then move in with the big girls group.

Cassie’s babies 2.5 weeks, and are SO CHUNK. Especially the lil splitcap boy 😂

Today, the all babies had some more play time in the play pen, and had a blast. Dragonites kids were extra naughty, and spent about 20 mins jumping out 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Here is a big photo dump of today’s crazy babies!

07/03/2024

Cassie’s kiddos have their eyes open!

So I let them have a lil time away from her while she ate dinner, and the bigger babies came to say hi 💗

The big kids had a blast zooming around, chasing each other, trying to climb up my arm or escape, but the corn cob was a crowd pleaser.

Dragonite & Eevee got hammocks in their cages, and they’re stoked. The babies spent ages trying to figure out how to get into them 😂

05/03/2024

Set up a super cool cardboard play table, and Eevees kids hopped right out 🤦🏻‍♀️

So I dragged out the pop-up playpen and the babies had a BLAST. Lots of zoomies, play fights and manicuring my nails.

Some chose to have a sleep instead, but majority were absolutely crazy hyper.

Their mummas got some long awaited alone time & their own portion of dinner to eat before the kids went home. The kids got their own dinner after, and as always it’s well received 😂

04/03/2024

I thought it could be cute to switch up the background blanket, and as you can tell, it was a BAD idea. So here are a bunch of trash quality photos of the babies

The big kids are 18 days old now & have been enjoying eating big kid food, and exploring their fun new cages.

Cassie’s little ones are 11 days old, and are so chunky! Eyes will be opening any day now, and I can’t wait.

Tomorrow I think it’s time to break out the mini play space for the babies, and hopefully take some in focus & not 💩 photos

Ah well, here are some cute babies 😂

03/03/2024

No fancy pics tonight, as I was cleaning the cages all day and im knackered.

Cassie’s bubs have fur now, and soooo well fed since it’s just the two of them.

Dragonite and Eevees babies have started exploring the cages now, so I’ve added a couple things in there for them to explore.

They’ve also started sampling their mums food. Tonight they tried some bougie eggy muffins with spinach, pasta, pumpkin, chicken and falafel.

29/02/2024

1 week old 🥹

Sadly miss BEW passed away yesterday, so it’s just these two chunker left.

I will be keeping both babies, so none from this litter will be available for adoption.

However, updates will always be here as I love showing them off 💗

Cassie is a very good mum. Her nest making skills are top tier, and her little ones are always well fed. She’s as easy going as her mumma Barb was.
I’m glad I was able to get a mini Barb & Mini Fox (her grandparents) in this litter 🥹

29/02/2024

2 weeks 🥳

Eevees 5 fat babies are doing so well. They’re so chunky and well fed. They’re super goofy and crazy already. Can only imagine how crazy it’s gonna be next week when they start going on the baby play time table!

Eevee is a lowkey no probs mumma. Not a shark like Dragonite, but still keeps her lil ones very well fed!

29/02/2024

2 weeks old!!

All the babies have their eyes open, even the wee runty masked boy.

It is now very clear that our mystery bubs are all albino 💗

For those who want a pair of PEWs, then we can help you there. Otherwise, they will be paired up with a rat of a different colour or marking, so future owners can tell them apart

Dragonite is very protective mum, but she’s looking soooo over it. Hopefully soon we can move Dragonite & her kiddos in with Eevee and her kiddos so they can share the load

27/02/2024

12 days old!

We have eyes!! The wee black vari girl is the first of the litter to open their eyes 💗

I suspect tomorrow the whole litter will have their eyes open.

As you can tell, the wee masked boy is missing from the pile. He sadly passed away last night. He wasn’t doing so hot, so it wasn’t unexpected but it is always upsetting.

Eevee is doing fine, and she’s obviously producing full fat milk, cos her babies are CHONK 😍

27/02/2024

12 days old!

These guys are SO close to eyes being opened, and I can’t wait.

The two little runts seem to be doing ok so far, but again it’s too soon to say whether theyll continue to stay that way ☹️

Despite this, mini PEW girl is crazy active and was climbing the fabric wall/backdrop 😂

27/02/2024

5 days old 💗

Cassie’s trio are doing well, with the 2 big kids looking nice and chonky. Wee BEW girl is pretty behind, but always has a full belly. It’s hard to say whether she’ll pull through, but I do hope so.

Cassie is loving the extra food she’s getting, and has been dragging it into her nest which is extra nasty 😂