Dandelion Critters

08/20/2024

I love these little guys 🥹💛

08/20/2024

Oil, the girl whom I had to extract from the shelf with a bottle of oil a few months ago, and Oglie, using her as a pillow 💛

08/19/2024

Snickerdoodle relaxing with her final beans.

Retirement for the sweet girl after these little guys, and she do it with a slam dunk of FIVE little werewolves.
4 boys and 1 girl.
+ 2 standard coated girls.

▶️ Note to answer some recent frequent questions :

- We do not have any available animals at the moment.

- We are located in Perry, Georgia.
We left California 1+ year ago.

- We are not really paying attention to other breeders due to lack of time. Therefore, we can not recommend any breeders in XYZ state (as we are not aware who is still active or not!).

- We do not ship. If you want an animal to travel, you must contact us with everything already planned through ground transport (example: "hey, X is gonna drive through your town, can they pick up for me?").
I do not have a car, or license : I will not (cannot) meet in anywhere else than Perry GA.

08/13/2024

We're still alive!
Hoping to get the motivation to start taking pictures again 💛

07/25/2024

Want to fo a good deed today?
Consider donating to the local shelter!
Friends Of Perry Animal Shelter (FOPAS)

They are in desperate need of kitten food (purina kitten chow) and clumping kitty litter!
Anything else helps just as much.

The shelter is at full capacity currently.
All the animals for adoption come FULLY vetted! ( spay/neuter, full vaccines panel, parasite treatment, microchip, etc. )

The shelter also has a little "animal thrift store" where you can help by purchasing animal supplies for a fraction of the costs of an actual store. (Including, yes, some rodent supplies 👀 )
There's also a whole rack of dog clothes and toys ✨️
All of it goes to the animals and the vetting costs.

ANYWAYS.
I just got back from cleaning there and just needed to make a shout-out about this amazing place 😊💛

https://www.fopas.org/donate
Friends Of Perry Animal Shelter ,
204 Kellwood Drive, Perry, GA, 31069, United States

07/22/2024

POV : you wake up the ✨️pile✨️

(Optional ; you scold them for chewing the corners of their brand new hammocks 😒. Thats why theyre piled up on the shelf 🤦‍♂️)

At 0.37, featuring our very special addition.
Lab tested pathogen free (we lucked out!) rattus rattus ( Roof Rats ).
They were found orphaned by one of our followers on a week end, so we stepped up with one of our nursing does who went in a quarantine place.
We decided to go ahead and test them before introducing them either in the wild or to our mischief. Clean bill ; mischief it was!
They were also way too human-friendly to safely go outside.

They're such sweeties. These two are the shy ones, the third one is almost always the first to come forward and play (even before the regular rats!).

They have a very unique look to them, a bit like a rat mixed with a show typed mouse.
They are waaaay more active (and arboreal).
They cannot interbreed with common rats (rattus norvegicus). [ it is technically possible, but records show early neonate passing.]

We are lucky in the sense that we have two males and one female, which open the door to potentially further explore this species.

Im just happy to have them around 🥹💛

07/15/2024

I don't generally post gofundme stuff, but she is my sister in law, and is a pillar helping recovering and rehabilitating folks who fall in the web of addiction.

Every penny help 💛

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07/11/2024

Gave the dormice some strawberries.

This juvenile and his dad are not the brightest XD.

They could just slide out to the other side and grab them, but no.
(They are not stuck)

Sometimes, we are our own obstacles 😆

07/08/2024

💛 little gremlins 💛

07/07/2024

Oglie's little heart faced fluff 😂💛

07/06/2024

Such calm cuddly girls 🥹💛

07/06/2024

How many rats can I doodle?
All.
All the rats.

😂
The final will be cleaned and colored, but in the meantime, enjoy the lazy scribble rats.

07/06/2024

Sisters 💛
Fea (marten hooded) and Oglie (albino).
Both with werewolf coats.

Oglie is rocking a giant unibrow while Fea is rocking a baldface 😂
It will change next molt, as always.

07/03/2024

Names have been chosen!
Rosie, Lilly and Tulip 💛

They're at the cutest age now 🥹💛

07/01/2024

🥹💛
These 3 little dwarf girls need names!
Of course the mama gave me 0 boys 😂

1. Dumbo Dwarf Black Hooded ^ Het Albino
[ a/a C/c df/df dmb/dmb h^-/h^- ]

2. Dumbo Dwarf Rex Black Hooded ^ Het Albino
[ a/a C/c df/df dmb/dmb Re/re h^-/h^- ]

3. Dumbo Dwarf Rex Black Hooded ^ Het Albino
[ a/a C/c df/df dmb/dmb Re/re h^-/h^- ]

Father ; Dwarf Black Hooded ^ Het Dumbo
[ a/a df/df Dmb/dmb h^-/h^‐ ]
Mother ; Dumbo Dwarf Rex Albino
[ a/a c/c df/df dmb/dmb Re/re h-^/h^- ]

06/16/2024

Cute little gal 💛

06/13/2024

Star is inspecting the new house 🥹💛

Looking forward to them to make a nest in it!

06/07/2024

The werewolf girls 🥹💛 Fea, Mist, and Fuglie.
Their brother Oglie is with their mama (he was latched, so I left him to eat 😂)

06/03/2024

A pouch of cuties 💛

05/31/2024

Y'all, you know, there's 3 type of people in life :

Lucky People
Unlucky People
Me

I know y'all love to hear about my pets shenanigans so... buckle up.

So my rental, I have old wood windows.
They're each made out of 12 individual smaller glass panels.

Last month, our A/C seemed to struggle a LOT (only managing to cool down to 77-78F).

Our power bill is even DOUBLE all the previous months in terms of $.
Heck, perhaps since late April tbh.

Well.

Turn out one of the cat bonked itself in a panel hard enough to dislodge it, without breaking the glass itself. So it went totally unnoticed.
Just 1 panel of glass completely off.
( its from inside, the panel was pushed out and screen not damaged, so no robbers 😂 )

Yeah, the A/C aint broken after all.

THANKS, MR BEEPS. 🤦‍♂️
( the big russian blue boy, ft his tiny itty bitty adoptive brother )

Caulked the glass panel into place and boom, easily back at 70F inside.

So for more than a month, our A/C has been fighting to try and lower the temp in vain.
Why?
THE MAIN VENT IS RIGHT UNDER THAT SAME WINDOW. 🤦‍♂️

The universe gave me 4 werewolf rat pups. Therefore, it also had to cost me $200 in useless power bill 😂🤦‍♂️

05/30/2024

This is Nubs.

Nubs is genetically a LongTail mouse.
Nubs is physically a Manx mouse.

Why such paradox?
It's mama decided to trim that tail as a pinky 🤦‍♂️

That's just as bad as having a wonderful texel coat, only for it to turn out to be recessive hairless at weaning stage 😂

But since Nubs is still genetically LongTail, Nubs will stay, as to establish this project.

On a normal day, I would remove from breeding any doe who trim/overgroom their pups, BUT their mothers are litterally my only LongTails, so they get a pass until I know that I won't loss the gene.

05/29/2024

I have been keeping this one quiet until being sure they were healthy 💛
Our previous litter had only 1 werewolf which was FTT (Failure to Thrive, which is where their bodies lack the capabilities of absorbing nutrients, it is fatal), so I didn't want to be excited for nothing.

This litter ratio is amazing considering both parents are inly carriers!

DCS • Twinky ♂️
Black Marten [a/a c^m/c* W/w]
×
DCS • Snickerdoodle ♀️
Agouti Marten [A/a c^m/c* W/w]

♂️ Agouti Marten Werewolf
♀️ Hooded Agouti Marten Werewolf
♀️ Albino* Werewolf
♀️ Albino* Werewolf
⚧️ Marten
⚧️ Marten
⚧️ Albino*

* Could be Albino, Himalayan, or Siamese.
Depend on the parents C-Locus.
I'm pretty certain parents are both c^m/c, and therefore the white pups are albino, BUT, that one werewolf 2nd from the right seems to have dark eyes rather than pink like all the others, which would only be like that for Himi/Siamese, but it could be just the shadow of the light.
We'll know when the eyes open!

⚧️ = I forgot what their s*x is by the time of writing the post 🤣

05/25/2024

More snips more snips!
https://www.facebook.com/GaCanineRescue?mibextid=ZbWKwL

05/23/2024

When Amazon delay the cone of shame...

Pizza cone it is 😂
Batman is now Ball-Free.

PS : dont mind the mess of the carpet.
Havent vaccumed since cleaning the dormice.

05/23/2024

I forgot to clean my lense soooo, some have a dull tone because of a fingerprint.

But babies 💛

05/22/2024

Stay tuned for some baby rat pictures this evening 💛

They are too young to be adopted, but they might be in 4-6weeks 👀💛

05/22/2024

Please note that our animals will no longer be available in places/stores.
Only here through me directly or my husband.

As of now, I am also no longer doing maintenance/cleaning/health-related upkeep on other local keepers/stores animals.

I will not go into details as I honestly would rather just not worry/think about it anymore. Just know that I parted ways with other places and am no longer responsible for those animals. It was /my/ decision.

Please enjoy this wild bird in the bush in front of my bedroom window, who is continuously screaming in the early mornings 🫣

05/15/2024

And just like that, my merle line was resurrected 💛.

My last doe had given me only carriers, which finally gave me this little buckling.

Lost a lot in terms of type, but I'll take it considering that sweet and calm temperament 😂

Blue "Pied" Roan, carrying Satin and possibly the LongTail modifiers.
[ a/a d/d ro/ro S/* k10*/k10* Sa/sa Lt/* ]

More about the K-complex of the Spotted loci ; https://hiiret.fi/eng/breeding/?pg=4&sub=11&ala=18

It has been recorded in my lines and test bred for a few years, so I'm just happy I didn't lose it fully 💛

05/11/2024

🔴 ITEM WARNING 🔴

Yeah, this is your reminder to always have a full bottle of vegetable oil on hand.

These critter nation shelf brackets?
Harmless huh?
Especially for adult standards huh?
Safe and solid huh?

No.

Tonight i found one of my full grown standard girl stuck in the TINY CORNER SECTION.
She managed to fit her whole body but her hips prevented her from escaping.
She was probably stuck upside down for +/- 5hours.

That corner is welded and you CANNOT bend it apart, and it is totally too thick of metal for regular cutters (like, deriously this is saw or large powerful cutters which obviously could not fit there, especially woth a freaked out wiggly rat)

I had to grab her feet, douse in oil, and pull to fully extend her legs and press her back to secure her spine.

She was so tightly wedged that there was only 3 options :

- Pull and press back and get out safe (thankfully what happened).
- Pull and press back and break her spine/pelvis/hips in the process.
- Emergency euthanasia.
[ 3am, no ER vets around ]

Guys, she was screaming the whole time and it was not from fear, and desperately trying to bite everything out of -despair-.
I've never seen a rat so seriously stuck to the point most angles to try and fit her out would harm her spine or more.

Once freed, she obviously had a wobble but snuggled against us and her heart was going so fast I thought she would have a heart attack/stroke tbh.

How she got there? They pushed the shelf off the bracket 🫠

Obviously did not take a picture of the "before" as she was in severe distress, but here you can see the tiny corner.

Yeah.

Mind you, this adult (1+ yo) doe is 500-600g.
She ain't small.
I'll post a picture of her tomorrow because im letting her rest for now.

➡️➡️➡️ I would therefore suggest to anyone using those brackets to secure the shelves/pans/replacement bins with rat-proof hardware (clips, screws+nut, etc).
Drill holes in the shelves/bins if needed.
Anything preventing access to those 4 corners, including them pushing the shelf from -under- and then going down or up through the bracket.

I hope this never happens again and same for everyone else.
This was scary as hell.

I still have no clues how her head even went through. Let alone her shoulders and the bulk of her organs. Yet the hips were too wide and she basically made a corset out of that bracket 🫠
And thats how i found her. Butt and legs up one side and rest of the body -hanging- under.
Poor baby 😭