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A breeding project to better the quality of rats in Western Australia and to provide wonderful friendly pets in the process with the goal to set higher standards through education, spreading awareness & ongoing support

19/02/2025

Really pleased with this lot so far, Buffy has continued the trend of unbothered mothers and curious happy babies ❤️

15/02/2025

Apparently the shavings in the cage aren’t enough for these crazy boys!

12/02/2025

What a difference a few days make! Eyes open and gently exploring the new world ❤️

08/02/2025

How cute are they 🥹 Buffy is doing such a wonderful job, not a hint of change in her personality, still super social and keen to hang out, I can stick my hand to check the bubs no problem just like her sister Lani. Super happy so far 👌🏼

07/02/2025

Sleepy Pepper from Love x Percy, all his little appendages are invested in this dream 😂

05/02/2025

I’ve been sitting on this post for a few weeks and after Jolene going downhill two days from seemingly perfect health to passed away over night at just over 4 months I think it’s time to share my thoughts with you.

I’ve tried outcrossing new lines three times, my first attempt was with a litter I got from far down south, I drove 10 hours in hopes they wouldn’t have the isolated Perth city issues we have.
I crossed them to my Buffs, all passed within 10 months from heart issues.
My second attempt was with a bunch of stunning Silver Fawns does.
I got 4 sisters early 2024, paired one sister to a Chin boy of mine (who afterwards turned absolutely feral).
The mother Honey had maternal aggression, the litter was split between me and a close friend so we could gage development.
One brother died early, two Silver Fawn brothers developed extreme aggression and were skittish to the point I couldn’t work with them.
The sisters of this litter developed what looked like Megacolon at about 7-8 weeks, though it diminished then flared up again only to diminish and stabilise, one sister has heart issues, another is bitey and the Suprelorin implant is in the works for her.

I decided to pair Honey’s sister Saffron in an attempt to have better stock fo work with which was a risk considering the mentioned above but I was hopeful I could in time breed away from these issues by crossing over to my Buff line.
Not only did she have severe aggression after being paired, she absorbed the litter and I scrapped any further attempt as this was not meant to be.

Third was Story x Oakley outcross.
Pook developed fast onset severe RI, before jumping to heart issues I treated him with Veraflox and Meloxicam and after 3 weeks he was fine and has continued to be.
Sister Rosie was next, I almost lost her too, she’s still currently on meds but is back to her self.
Candi…next..same story as Pook and now Jolene who out of the blue went from seemingly healthy to dead within two days. I’m gutted.
I put her in with some older girls so I could treat easier and this morning I found her passed away.
Their brother Max who is here is so far fine.
The adopted others are so far fine too but this evidence points me to heart issues as I’ve seen it too many times to think otherwise.

I’ve decided to scrap any further attempt with them and the remaining will be pets only.

This is how serious our issues are here and I really want to point out that these recessive heart issues and aggression problems are bloody everywhere. It’s a catastrophe.
These outcross rats were from different locations and after being in rescue and seeing all different rat families develop the same issues over and over and over, it’s a damn sad point in time we’re in.

I know I’ve harped on many a times over the past couple of years but this is the scary reality breeders and the public need to be aware of.

I’m incredibly grateful for my main line so far, it’s not been without issues and we’re not out of the woods yet as this year and the next really will be what tells me if there’s hope in the long run or not.

All I can do is continue with the hopes progress can be had with the wonderful rats I’ve managed to produce but this year will be a complete scale back with breeding and with any litters later in the year majority will be held back for documentation.

Feeling very heartbroken and disheartened today 💔

03/02/2025

How in the world can anyone not think rats are adorable! Look at them 🥹😆

28/01/2025

Buffy from Love x Percy caught me filming and decided to leave the bubs to check things out 🥰
13 were welcomed on the night of the 26th.
This is the last litter until the winter/spring months and at least half will be retained with the others going to my waitlist.

Now that I have a large group of potential breeders to pull from I’ll be aiming to pair rats at a later age including females so I can gage last years and the previous year litters progression sufficiently to make sure I’m making long term progress in the right direction.

21/01/2025

Ok so in relation to my recent post on why I don’t work with others by supplying rats:

Breeding rats can be a rewarding experience, but it's essential to consider several factors before starting a breeding program.
Here are some key things to think about:

1: Health clearances:
Ensure your breeding rats are healthy and free from genetic disorders.
Consult with a vet or experienced ethical breeder to determine the necessary health clearances and LEARN to do this yourself, experience and a keen eye and gut will do a world of wonders.
I started with the best I found and have trialled non related rats but it’s extremely important to be able to take responsibility on what might come up, refunding early deaths, asking rats back for necropsy, offering to pay for hormonal related aggression des*xing, taking back rats and offering continued guidance is paramount (which takes expertise) (IN MY OPINION BUT NOT 100% NEEDED).

2: Linebreeding vs. outbreeding:
Understand the differences between linebreeding (breeding related rats) and outbreeding (breeding unrelated rats).
Linebreeding can help fix desirable traits and bring out both good and bad so it’s extremely important to take this route first whilst working on what you want more of to express, while outbreeding can increase genetic diversity but only use if absolutely needed.
Rats and mice unlike other animals can be safely in**ed for many many generations and will let you gage what’s recessive and bring out any traits that you’d like to either eliminate or bring forth. A very valuable tool!
Swapping rats between eachother w***y nilly without enough data is a dangerous route to take and has spread many wanted issues!

3: Breeding Goals and Objectives:
Define your breeding goals:
Determine what you want to achieve through breeding, such as improving specific traits, creating new varieties, or preserving existing ones.
2. Develop a breeding strategy:
Create a plan outlining your breeding objectives, selection criteria, and breeding methods.

*Welfare and Husbandry*

1. Provide suitable housing:
Ensure you can provide a safe, clean, and spacious environment for your breeding rats and their offspring, this is something every rat pet owner should know before taking on breeding or even considering it.
It is a constant learning and improving process.

2. Nutrition and care:
Understand the nutritional needs of breeding rats and provide a balanced diet. Ensure you can provide proper care, including vet attention when needed.

3. Handling and socialisation:
Handle your rats gently and regularly to socialize them and reduce stress, you need time and patience to gage what’s appropriate for pet homes, culls and keepers.

4: Culling: OH A VERY CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC!
I hated the idea of culling, it took me a while before I understood the absolutely needed necessity of it.
WHY?
Because early severe health and skittishness is not ideal, if you want to medicate and work on (which by the way I do in some cases) but other cases are not worth it for the rat or my program which is to have a line of strong emotionally sound rats both for pet homes and breeding.
I’m extremely lucky to have a wonderful vet team but I have come to learn if the rat is suffering and shows no willingness to improve despite your best efforts that equal a hard cull.
I keep most of my non adoptables, my house is full (which I love) but if I see over weeks or months despite my efforts to help, this equals humane euthanasia by C02.

My main rule is:
Be a dominant rat to others (not fighting) but otherwise good (no biting) stays with me and doesn’t get bred and stays as pet and if humanly affectionate enough, gets des*xed, if activity seeks to bite me or other humans that is a hard cull and mind you each time I cry.
This has happened 3 times so far in my lines.
I will not tolerate my effort to help and still resulting in human aggression, this is not ok and down right dangerous.
This is a big factor new breeders need to take into account and learn the appropriate steps to take.

*Time Commitment and Resources*

1. Time commitment:
Breeding rats requires a significant time investment as it’s a daily process to evaluate health and temperament and to gage what’s appropriate and what’s not including daily care, planned breeding and timeframes, record keeping and socialising.

2. Financial resources:
Determine whether you have the necessary financial resources to support your breeding program, including food, veterinary care, and equipment.
Ethical breeding in most cases DOES NOT MAKE YOU FINANCIAL PROFIT.
I personally lose money breeding but I love seeing progress.
If anything it costs more to run and the money received back does no where near cover running costs.

*Record Keeping and Pedigree Management*

1. Accurate record-keeping:
Maintain detailed records of breeding, births, and animal health to ensure accurate pedigree management.

2. Pedigree software or systems:
Consider using pedigree software or systems to help manage your breeding program and track lineage.
There are no rat specific ones but many use Kintracks, I personally use Apple Notes.

*Mentorship and Support*

1. Seek guidance from experienced breeders:
Reach out to experienced rat breeders for guidance, advice, and support.
Now, something to consider with this is their standing within the community and their constant drive for improvement.
There are many rat breeders who settle and don’t continue to improve which can make things difficult for new ones starting up, another factor is their knowledge in genetics and husbandry and also their practices.
It’s important to do your own research prior and cross reference to make sure you’re on the correct path and to find others that align with your ethics, there’s valuable info to gain from many but to have multiple as a group who you can contact is important as breeding gains from knowledge from multiple people.

2. Join breeding communities or organisations:
Connect with local or online breeding communities to network with other breeders, share knowledge, and stay updated on best practices.

By carefully considering these factors, you can ensure a responsible and successful rat breeding program with patience.
Screening homes and understanding the need to hold back and have trusted homes (which keep you upto date) is incredibly beneficial and important.

Apologies if I’ve hurt anyone’s feelings with this post but I think it’s valuable information to be spread within the community.

20/01/2025

These girls 🥹 Olive, Lucy, Sunny & Andie.
Lani has done such a fantastic job and the personalities on the lot of this litter has shon through. All girls staying with a wonderful human and close friend who I couldn’t of gotten through this past 18 months without ❤️

19/01/2025

⚠️INFO POST⚠️

I’m just wanting to state clearly that I do not hand out my rats to other breeders, this isn’t to be mean, I know I’m super strict but it’s for safety.
I really don’t mean to “be on a high horse”, I have valid concerns that I need to take into account.
I’m also not comfortable homing rats out if you have the opposite s*x at home unless I personally know you.
I talk to numerous breeders on a daily basis and work as a team to make sure I make the best choices possible in every move I make but I have chosen to not hand my rats out for use to others for these reasons.

1. Because I need to know you long enough to know your ethics and practices

2. I need to know my lines are stable enough

3. I work with varieties that are not to be taken lightly

4. I’ve had my fair share of people lying and have been disappointed many a times

We have sadly lost the one other person here that I trusted fully with my rats as they’ve chosen not to continue breeding for the time being.
I considered letting rats go to others and have even offered it but I need to make sure it’s in Perth’s best interest to do so and I just can’t risk that as it is.

I LOVE chatting to others and sharing info between eachother but my rats are my pride and I want them to be 100% and to have a very close repor with any breeder I let my rats go to, on a friendship level.

18/01/2025

How HANDSOME are these boys 😍
The sunlight captures these bright glowing red eyes and after chatting to a more experienced breeder in these types I’ll be continuing her description of “Merle effect” and her suggestion that I’m getting Argente Merle Chin instead of Cinnamon Merle Chin (regarding the warmer tone).
These are my keepers, extremely hard to choose from the 9 boys and I’m a little sad they can’t all stay as I’m so impressed with the lot of them.

4 girls are staying with a close friend whilst the other 4 boys are being divided into two homes.

Floyd: Mink Merle Chinchilla
Bandito: Argente Merle Chinchilla
Lute: Argente Merle Chinchilla
Joker: Argente Merle Chinchilla
Nacho: Mink Berkshire

15/01/2025

All the rats here got a new treat mix today 💕

Tri coloured pasta
Fish & Chicken dog food
Organic cacao rings
Organic rice puffs
Bran flakes
Shredded coconut
Red lentils
Spilt peas
Rolled oats
Brown rice
Corn cornels

(This is just a treat mix and not suitable for main diet)

12/01/2025

Fully cleaned rat room, scrubbed walls, floors and cages which were a due for a clean after the holiday period.
Next to take out all cage items and scrub those too.

Even though the rescue has closed there’s still a tonne of work always to do!

11/01/2025

Spent today cleaning accessories, I am no where near done 😩
This isn’t even close to half of what I have and is way more than what we need here.
Slowly I’ll be replacing all my Ferret Kingdoms with the Budtrol cages and organising what I need and what I can horde away for any rescuers that need a hand just like I was given 🙏 if anyone knows anyone who actively rescues rodents please reach out

10/01/2025

How cute are these guys 🥹
I’m really happy with how they’re developing and the temperaments on all of them so far

08/01/2025

FREE ROAM IDEAS AND EXAMPLES

Creating an enriching environment for your rats is a sure way to keep their curiosity and learning skills at peak, it provides necessary mental stimulation and mimics natural behaviour by letting them seek, problem solve, play, hide, introduce new smells and textures, exercise and keep stress levels to a minimum.

Even utilising a smaller space like bathroom, bed or couch by adding tunnels, blankets, random objects around the house like ornaments, paper bags, boxes, plastic children’s toys etc can be just as rewarding for them.

One thing I like to do is switch things around often, add new things and rotate current things so they don’t get bored.
Hiding or scattering treats within the room is a great way to encourage foraging!

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Buffy & the beans!

Really pleased with this lot so far, Buffy has continued the trend of unbothered mothers and curious happy babies ❤️

Apparently the shavings in the cage aren’t enough for these crazy boys!

What a difference a few days make! Eyes open and gently exploring the new world ❤️

Buffy x Beau

Sleepy Pepper from Love x Percy, all his little appendages are invested in this dream 😂

Girls with their weekly Weetbix and Divetelact

How in the world can anyone not think rats are adorable! Look at them 🥹😆

These girls 🥹 Olive, Lucy, Sunny & Andie. Lani has done such a fantastic job and the personalities on the lot of this litter has shon through. All girls staying with a wonderful human and close friend who I couldn’t of gotten through this past 18 months without ❤️

Lani x Ace beans

This is utterly my favourite stage in baby rat development, so innocently pure and sleepy, just starting to wake up to the world. When I was a child I was fixated on the Sylvanian Families, anything tiny always had my attention. The smaller the better, the cuter the better and as an adult this lifelong fixation transferred to rats, I just love them. I think they’re magical, their curiosity, friendliness, their strength of mind, their little hands and wiggly noses, their tails and ears in all their glory makes my heart sing and to anyone that personally knows me rats changed my life in a way humans couldn’t. I owe them everything and seeing this litter at this age brings me such joy!. I’ve had some amazing rats so far on this journey of breeding and also some which have crushed my heart, not everything is rosy and despite making the best choices available a handful have had reported RI’s, Hormonal Aggression in various degrees, Megacolon in weanlings…even one I held back at 5 months but considering the number of babies I’ve had born, majority of no issues have been reported so I’m taking this so far as a win, I didn’t start this off with the notion my rats would be perfect, I heartbreakingly switched from rescue to breeder because I felt it was what WA needed and needs most. I knew I would lose support due to some people not understanding or accepting my intentions, I knew a lot would be trial and error until I establish myself further but one thing I knew for sure is that I want to at the very least try to pull something good from the chaos I was seeing in the rat population here. I know most people would rather just see a lot of cute photos and videos and I do when I can! But I’m just not here for that overall, this is a process and I’d like to help people realise that even though I closed the rescue and have distanced myself from the majority of the rat community I am

Lani x Ace beans

Colours and markings starting to come through now, lots of warm shaded little beauties and of course some mink ☺️

Babies!

Sorry for absolute bombardment guys! Baby spam for tax

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Not often I get a very snuggly boy bruxing & boggling on my shoulder, tonight I am very grateful for having such a blissed out ratty hanging out with me 😌 (sound up)

Cheeto 💛

Enjoy your oldies while you can, there’s something truly special with older rats. A lot of our residents have seen and been through many trials and tribulations in their short little lives and to have them live out in peace and with love is something I enjoy being able to give them and I know there’s others who enjoy it too. There’s something very dignified in older rats 💛 but more often than not I see a lot of homes get to the 1-1.5yr mark and choose to surrender mostly because lack of time. Rats really don’t take much time, they are honestly the perfect pet for people short on time. A half hour free roam whilst doing some phone catch up, an hour outing while you’re watching telly, a weekly cage clean, some left over dinner as a different treat, a cuddly buddy or some play time while you relax on the bed. I know some people are honestly time poor and under stress, I do get it but if I can manage close to a dozen cages with 30-80 rats at a time please please take a moment to consider before you ask to surrender. Even free roam 3 times a week and some quick cuddles everyday to know they’re loved surely isn’t too much to ask for? Love from Cheeto who is nearing the rainbow bridge 🌈

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