South Bay Rodent Rescue

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South Bay Rodent Rescue

501(c)(3) rescue helping domestic rats & mice in LA/OC/Ventura/surrounding areas since 2019!

10/12/2025

Yesterday in with at the Fur-Ever Friends Fall Fest and Pumpkin Patch was lots of fun! It even resulted in a surprise ! 🥳🐀🐀❤️

These two 1.5 year old female rats came to us on surrender from Riverside and got a special transport from to the event to hang out with us until we could take them back to . At least that's what we thought... 🎃

They're super sweet girls with lovely personalities, and one of them gets around on three legs. Of course, that doesn't stop her from doing her thing. They went to a nice family who had recently lost their rats and wanted new friends to take home.

Also, we hung out with and checked out their fun selection of scaly things. Another perk of being next to a reptile rescue? Complimentary live superworms which Joanie (our hairless double rex girl) was completely obsessed over. We're pretty sure she chowed down on at least three of them. 😬🐛

10/08/2025

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We had students from come down to visit us today to acquire new fuzzy teaching assistants for their animal behavior course this semester.

With these seven lovely boys adopted, six young guys and their very adorable father/uncle figure in tow (half of the baby boys are biologically his), an entire cage was cleared on a Tuesday! If you were at Furbaby Love Fest in Gardena this past Sunday, these were the guys who were at our table looking super cute! We had a feeling that they weren't going to last long with us.

We're happy to send these babies to , and we hope that them getting to know these awesome creatures through socialization and training helps foster a new generation of animal caretakers and specialists.

Happy to be your neighborhood !

Bonus material: Our lead volunteer coordinator spotted some 🦝🦝 going to town on the cat food outside during the cleaning shift. 😂 They left kibble all over the ground, so now we have to wait for the possums to come by and clean it all up.

10/06/2025

Someone went home with our very special rat-themed gift basket today at Furbaby Love Fest! Thanks to everyone who came by to say hello at our table and hang out with the ratties.

10/05/2025

HAPPY RATober! 🎃🐀

Our first appearance of Fall/Halloween season is in the books! We had fun with the general admission and the Discovery Cube members this Saturday. The rats were doing their thing while looking cute and napping a lot. Lots of touchable bubble collection was also had.

Today (Sunday 10/5), we're hanging out down the street for the 6th Annual Fur Baby Love Fest hosted by and . Come see us in the parking lot along with our fellow animal rescues and adoption agencies! There's also tasty food, merch, raffles, low-cost pet vaccines, and animal costume contests! Also, we have new merch for sale that will blow your mind due to their awesomeness. 🙂

We have something going on every weekend this month. Head to our website (southbayrodentrescue.org) to check the calendar!

10/01/2025

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Six more ratties found their way home in the last couple days!

A mama rat and two of her daughters went to a returning adopter and foster as new friends for a neutered boy rat. These ladies should give him a run for his money. It should be a fun time.

And it's that time again for students from to acquire some furry classmates for a course about animal behavior. We've supplied quite a few learners with rats in this effort, and they've gone on to some fun adventures with their new owners. Far more fun than a textbook, we say. These three sisters are headed off to learn new tricks while being adorable.

09/27/2025

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That was a heck of a drive to two weeks ago. But we'd do it all again for these guys.

, Christine hauled out to Sin City on a one-day turnaround trip to bring these four squishes (three alumni and an old friend) back to LA to give them their best shot at a new home.

Their next destination has a pair of experienced rat owners who know a thing or two about spoiling their fuzzy babies. We know they're going to enjoy this new chapter in their lives. Thank you for giving these boys another chance at a happy place full of love and attention.

BTW are you coming to in Pasadena tomorrow, 9/28 for their 15th Anniversary bash from 11-5pm? We'll be there with lots of rats to cuddle. We'll also have other friends there like who have a bunch of mice to unload. (DM them if you want to get on the approved adoption list!)

09/24/2025

We have action-packed -BER months both at the rescue and off-site! Sign up for a volunteer slot today!

We're back at LA and OC for more rat visits in conjunction with the Fall/Halloween season. 🐀🎃

We kick things off with in Pasadena to round out September. We're making our debut at in Orange County and appearing at Fur Baby Love Fest in Gardena hosted by for a second year. And yes, we didn't forget El Dorado Nature Center at .

Help us and hang around cute animals! Reserve your time today.

09/21/2025

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This is the one time this year that we can use this song so we're gonna do it. 🤣

We had six of the 15 Van Nuys babies leave on their first day of availability! In addition, two of our girls from the Bellflower dumping incident as well as one boy from our recent oops litter acquisition from Gardena found their way out of SBRR. We had three new adopters and one returning adopter that helped us get these babies to new places.

It has been a doozy of a Sunday and we're hanging in there. Just remember, spreading kindness costs absolutely nothing. We need more of that because it's cloudy outside, both figuratively and literally.

09/16/2025

We're doing a thing this Saturday, 9/20 from 10am-3pm. Wanna help us clean up the rescue and get it ready for the final stretch of the year? We'll provide snacks and drinks.

Are you a student looking for service hours? We can sign off on those, you know. Just saying.

DM us for more info. If you already know how to reach is, DM us anyway for a headcount.

09/09/2025

We're letting the [r]at out of the bag. One of our fuzzies is a YouTube star. 🥹

A few months ago, we were asked by a producer if we could provide a rat for a few scenes being filmed inside of a local comic book store. One of Christine's personal rescue rats, Kiore, was selected among several potential candidates because of her shaggy looking Rex coat and perky personality. And she totally slayed her role, with a little coaching from Christine and bribery with treats.

Kiore makes her acting debut in in Episode 2, "Ratz City," where she finds herself as a surprise guest in the back room of the store. She does have a stunt double in one of the scenes as she's not much of a runner, but it worked out just fine.

Special thanks to and for letting us be a part of this hilarious web series and for the lovely donation to our rescue.

Watch this awesome series today! Great writing, great acting, and it's so relatable.

Fun fact: Kiore means "rat" in the Maori language. So the production team literally chose a rat named "Rat."

09/08/2025

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We had eight rats leave today to go to their , and six of them were Mama Agnes' lovely children!

Three baby boys went to a returning adopter to join their existing mischief of older dudes. We hear that they'll be named after dwarves from the Tolkien-verse, and their cuteness fits the bill.

Another returning adopter took three lady rats to also bring some young energy to a group of older girls. Their s***k reminds us of their mother, and they will have lots of fun in their new place.

Last, but not least, we had a previously returned SBRR alum and a young counterpart go off to a new adopter who will be adding them to their mischief of girls. We're grateful that they're giving an older girl a new place to live while making sure she didn't leave our facility by herself.

And one more time, an encore for those ears. 😳

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Lawndale, CA

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+14245719530

Website

http://southbayrodentrescue.org/

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