Jellybean Rattery

11/04/2024

Also introducing Constellation and Outlaw's one baby girl 💜 Sapphire is also caring for this one.

11/04/2024

Introducing Tulip and Cyrus's two beans 💜 Sapphire is caring for these two.

11/03/2024

It's finally time for individual pictures! The babies are at my favorite age right now and are sooo cute 🥰
First are Magnolia x Dragon, my c locus outcross.

11/01/2024

Hello everyone! I'm putting out a call for potential foster homes. Foster homes would be approved homes who I would contact to take in returned rats and continue to treat them as beloved pets while I work to find them permanent homes. Ideally they would also be knowledgeable about rats and able to relay to me if there are any health or behavioral issues. No foster will be expected to support health or behavioral issues.

Having available foster homes would ensure rats are still getting pet-level attention and love while in limbo between homes, which I can't provide while they're sitting in quarantine here to protect the rest of my population. It also prevents all the complicated messes that might occur if my quarantine is already in use, or if I'm going through a health lockdown and can't have any rats coming in or leaving.

Rats getting returned is a very rare circumstance, so in most cases foster volunteers will go without use, but it's a relief to have the option if a situation ever comes up.

If anyone would be interested, please message the page!

10/28/2024

This may be the litter I'm most excited about currently. This litter is from one of my heart girls, Citrine, and my beautiful fawn whiteside dwarf boy, Firefly. I am so excited to see how these babies turn out, and also excited to be one big step closer to my visual line goals for the red eye dilute line.

10/26/2024

Now introducing Magnolia x Dragon 💜 This is an outcross between my Siamese and Tonkinese lines in an effort to combine and improve both.

10/25/2024

Hi everyone! We're back with beansss 🥰
We have 5 special litters on the ground. First I'll introduce Sapphire x Mouse, for the red eye dilute line (colors like fawn and beige).

Sapphire is also caring for Constellation and Tulip's babies so you'll see them in these pictures too 💜 The furred variegated baby is Constellation's and the hairless variegated and one of the Siamese belong to Tulip.

10/12/2024

Updates on Bear's daughters!

These cuties are really winning my heart over. I'm already getting a feeling that one of these girls may be a heart rat. This is one of my favorite lines, from their great grandma and down this line has always given me a favorite rat - Ginger, then Bandit, then Bear, and now it seems a new girl might be joining the list soon.

10/09/2024

6 week update photos of Bear's boys 💕 We got sooo many silvermanes this time.

10/09/2024

It's about time I introduce this sweet little boy 💜 6 weeks ago Kappa had one single little boy after being paired for about 4 months. She did a wonderful job with him and he has turned into a lovely sweet little lad. He is the first baby in our new Tonkinese line.

Kappa and Dragon come from Madratter Rattery, and we are grateful to be continuing a handful of her lines 💜 Dragon quickly became a heart rat here. He is one of the squishiest rats I've ever had the pleasure of holding and acts like an excited puppy dog, bouncing all over whenever we walk to the cage. Fingers crossed his son is just like him!

09/22/2024

Everyone, I have some bad news today.
Unfortunately we've had an exposure to bordetella and Streptococcus pneumoniae and we're now in quarantine to ensure our rats are clean. I do not know when this exposure happened exactly. I haven't adopted out in a couple months and haven't received reports of illness from any adopters so I hope my rats are the only ones affected. If any adopters experience URI symptoms including congestion, weight loss, loss of fur quality, and/or signs of discomfort, please reach out. Those symptoms do not mean your rats have these illnesses, as they are the same symptoms as common Myco flares, but any information is helpful and I'm happy to provide any help and info I can.

I am running this quarantine under the guidance of my vet and will be re-testing in 3-4 months to see if we're clear. Due to the timing, I did have to pair up all my girls who would otherwise age out during the quarantine period, so I'll still be posting baby pictures during this time. Many of these "baby boom" kids may be looking for homes in the event we test clear after the first round of quarantine.

Thank you everyone for your understanding and I apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment! You all know I just want to ensure I'm only sending out happy and healthy rats 💜

I've attached a short video of some girls in the playpen as rat tax 💜

09/16/2024

Update photos of Bear's babies! These guys are so cute I can't take it 🥰

09/02/2024

Look who sprouted a short bit of fur overnight!

09/01/2024

Introducing Bear's little beans! She has 8 boys and 5 girls born 8/26/2024. Her and her beans are doing great and she's being a wonderful mother 💜

08/14/2024

This is a great summary to set realistic expectations as a rat owner 💜 While most breeders strive to produce healthy, long-lived rats, rats are biologically not built to live very long and even longevity lines struggle to reach 2.5-3 years consistently.

If lifespan is your biggest desire, look into dwarf rats 💜 While they are harder to find and you may be on a wait-list for a while, and they tend to be a little more expensive, they live notably longer.

🐀 'How Long Do Pet Rats Live?' 🐀

This is a question we commonly seen asked, and debated, on rat groups online and is something we feel is super important to discuss.

On the Internet, you may see many unsubstantiated claims of rats live well over 3 4 or even 5 years old that can make you feel bad that your beloved baby 'only' made it to 2, for example. The reality is, that although there are varying factors and exceptions, the average age of pet rats is 1.5 - 2.5 years, with somewhere around 2 ish often being the average 🩷

08/08/2024

Hi everyone! Quick update. I've been getting a few messages and emails and while I welcome anyone to reach out anytime, please note I'll be slow to respond for the time being. We're near the tornadoes that touched down in NE Ohio and have been without power for 48 hours now with little idea of when it'll be back, so I'm only able to check correspondence on my phone which doesn't have the best battery life.

We're okay, the rats are okay, and the property is mostly okay! Rat tax is one of our current pairings, Max x Bear 💜

07/21/2024

6 week update photoshoot of Mystic's single baby, now named Elixir 💜

She is a UK pearl merle variegated silvermane velveteen.

07/20/2024

8 week update photos of Mera's litter!

07/19/2024

Sorry for the slow updates everyone! I recently switched jobs and it's taking me a bit to adjust.

River's babies are growing up beautifully and oh so sweet!

06/30/2024

It's finally time to introduce this adorable little sheep 💜
Mystic x Max were paired for my pearl merle line, but Mystic only had one single baby. We held off on announcing her because often single babies don't make it. Luckily Mystic did a wonderful job taking care of her and she's doing so well! She is a pearl merle variegated velveteen 🥰

06/28/2024

Beans!! We welcomed 5 new beans to the world from River x Cyrus a few days ago 💜 River is my boyfriend's heart rat and Cyrus is one of mine, so we're very excited for this litter.

06/17/2024

A video of Mera F2 being the cutest little thing 💜

06/15/2024

Mera Beans!! These kiddos are so cute I can't get over it 🥰
They are black-eyed Siamese, black-eyed himilayan, and ivory dumbos. Standard and dwarf 💜

06/12/2024

Hello all! Our wait-list is currently empty for girls as well, and we still have plenty of girls looking. If you would be interested, please send a message to the page!

Everyone will be expected to fill out an application and get approved 💜

06/11/2024

I hope to get light box photos soon, but I have to give you all a sneak peek of how stinking cute these guys are 🥹