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

14/06/2025

🎉 Exciting News!🎉

We’re thrilled to announce that South Bay Rodent Rescue has been awarded a generous grant from the Marion & Richard Graham Foundation! 🐭💚

This incredible support will be put to work during our 2025 fiscal year, helping us:
🐀 Provide vital veterinary care, including neuters and tumor removals
🐀 Grow our foster program through cage purchases and supplies for our foster families
🐀 Upgrade facility equipment and stock up on medical supplies
🐀 Jazz up our public image and engagement opportunities during off-site events
🐀 Cover some key operating costs
🐀 ...and more upgrades!!!

We’re deeply grateful to MGRF for their belief in our mission. Also, we thank YOU, our amazing community, whose continued support and confidence in our efforts makes our work possible every day.

Thank you for being part of the SBRR family and for watching us evolve through the years into the largest rat/mouse-specific small animal rescue in Los Angeles County. Here's to an impactful year ahead! 🙌

12/06/2025

🐀🐀❤️🐀🐀❤️🐀🐀🐀❤️🐀🐀🐀🐀❤️🐀

This week's graduates are off to great things!
- A pair of Himalayan sisters fill a cage once again.
- Two black Berkshire sisters get added to a mischief.
- A trio of dudes are joining a couple older dudes.
- Returning adopters refill their cage with four young ladies!
- Remember the abandoned little West LA with the bum leg? He went to Orange to live with one of our awesome fosters in what they call their "ADA Friendly" cage! This same family picked up our three-legged rattie from our Hawthorne Labor Day rescue last year and he's doing great!

09/06/2025

🚨AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION🚨

The snuggliest boy rattos you'll ever meet.

This Boy Band of 1 year-old rockstars, Jonathan, Ozzy, and Bowie, were surrendered by a couple in Santa Clarita whose “roommate” had been keeping them in a small, filthy wire cage, with nothing but metal rungs to rest on after their long night jams.

It turns out that with a proper lounge to chillax in and their favorite music (Smoke On The Water), they are an extremely bonded trio that loves human interaction and greets fans with licks, whisker-tickles and lots of bruxing and boggling! Having lived as starving artists in squalor, they deserve to go from grungy garage-band life to a home where they will have a spacious penthouse to have their after-parties, post-concert massages, and a life of Grammy-winning luxury! They promise to deliver you the Best Hits Ever!

Interested? Send us a DM. Only available as three-track LP and not as singles. 😉

06/06/2025

CORRECTION: The fair is on Saturday, 6/7, same times. We accidentally posted last year's ad. Sorry!

Basically us this Saturday. 😅

We're staying home and hanging out at the park up the street!

Head on down to Jane Addams Park on June 8 from 10am-2pm for pets, snacks, and good vibes. We're here again with the ratties and the chill time. Maybe other stuff, too? 🤔 We're looking forward to the return of the kettle corn stand.

Wanna help and snorgle baby rats until they accept their fate? Just pop on over to our tent.

And if you have a 🐕 or 🐈 that needs shots or a microchip, you can get it done here!

01/06/2025

🥳🐀🐀🐀❤️🐀❤️🐀🐀❤️🐀🐀🐀🐀

Here's the week of graduating from in review...

- One of our trios made up of a mama and her two daughters are enjoying their new digs!
- One of our young dudes is joining another young boy rat as a new cagemate.
- A returning adopter adds two more boy rats to their mischief to create a party of four.
- New adopters came all the way from Ontario(!) to snag four lovely ladies for their single neutered male rat. It seems like a 1:4 ratio of neutered boys to intact girls is a thing. Anyway, that's one lucky guy. 😎

That's another crazy week in the books. Lots of cute rats are here to choose from. Believe us, we'd rather be distributing them rather than procuring them...

27/05/2025

🌈RIP Bonnie 🐀💔

For those who have been following the journey of Bonnie, the female rat we received from Van Nuys after she was found abandoned in a bank parking lot in the rain, we are sad to announce that she crossed the Rainbow Bridge late last week. Our amazing foster family who had been caring for her said that she left us in the most gentle way, falling asleep peacefully and not waking up.

In the few months that she was with us, Bonnie was a peaceful lady but a hell of a fighter. When she came to us with that horrible upper respiratory infection, we worked on her for over a month to get that under control. We threw everything at it, a nebulizer and multiple types of antibiotics. Through it all, she took all the treatments with grace and was even a mentor to a young baby rat who was saved from becoming a feeder. That girl grew up and was named "Forky" (think Toy Story) by her foster family and was very loyal to Bonnie.

There is a light to all of this, because we weren't going to leave Forky all alone. A couple weeks ago, we received a trio of extremely young baby rats from a nearby shelter. Unfortunately, the shelter had misclassified them as mice, and when we got them, one of them was very weak and passed away. However, the two remaining girls were fostered and socialized by one of our volunteers and given the names "Q-Tip" and "Cotton Ball" due to their diminutive size. We felt that they would be perfect new sidekicks for Forky, and they'd also stay in our family.

So...we present to everyone a beautiful Forky Sandwich 🐀🥪🐀.

We will miss Bonnie very much. She's a reminder of why we do what we do here at . We were honored to have filled her last months on this side of the astral plane with love and comfort.

25/05/2025

📢 Boarding Fee Update – Starting June 1, 2025! ✨🐭

To keep up with supply costs and the time it takes to give every rat the love they deserve, our boarding rate will increase from $5 to $10/day beginning June 1. We strive to keep our rates reasonable while continuing to provide the same quality of service to all of our rodent parents.

This applies to up to five (5) rats in our care. There is an additional $1/rat charge for every additional rat.

Thank you for supporting our mission and helping us keep our furry friends happy! 💕🐾

21/05/2025

🥳🐀🐀🐀❤️

Returning adopters are a reminder to us that you can never have enough rats in your house and you need to come back for more. 😅

Three ladies from our latest group are headed down the street to join a few other girls who then will, in turn, be spoiled by a group of human ladies! We've been very lucky with this current set of female rats as they've been very sweet and easy to work with.

This family also boards their rats with us regularly so we'll get to see them again when they hang out here while their hoomans go on vacation. 😊 That's always fun. That also means we'll probably see them sometime this summer.

Your local says thank you for stopping by and for sharing the rat love with your friends!

19/05/2025

The weekend in photos...

(1-2) We hung out at William S. Hart Regional Park in for the annual Critter Fair on Saturday, representing as the only non-dog/cat rescue at the event for a second year in a row. The weather was a bit cool, but the rats had a fun time. Our foster family who lives in this area joined in the fun and brought their rats, who are alumni.

If you remember our little lady rat friend named Clara from a previous post, she was the one who was found near the riverbed last month. She's doing much better now, and her foster family decided to keep her for good! So we brought five of our baby girls with us to the event for her to pick out a couple friends, which led to Photo 3!

The remaining three girls went to their on Sunday, adopted by a pair of our supporters who visited us at the park ahead of their adoption appointment. So that's another for us!

(4) We had one baby girl leave and join a lonely lady and make a new pair. She's a quick little thing, but her gigantic ears make her easy to spot. 😅

(5) We received 29 rats on surrender this weekend from a family who tried to make a couple oops litters work out (pet store sold them pregnant females 🥺) but it got overwhelming. So we stepped in to ensure everyone will be distributed to new homes and cared for in the process. This pair of cute girls were the first to go, joining a young lady as her first pet rats.

(6) We have determined that standard Cheerios are "Rat Bagels" and relabeled the pitcher accordingly.

We thank all of our supporters and fans who hail from all parts of and show us the love. 🐀❤️

14/05/2025

🥳🐀🍊

Meet Clementine. She's a lone, 1 year-old lady rat who came to us after living by herself for most of her life. She also came in with a bit of a rash that was treated with antibiotics and medication, so she had to hang out for a while as healed up. She was just cleared recently for adoption.

Enter Loaf 🍞 the Rat. She's a 2 year-old female who lost her cagemate and was by herself. Her owners wanted to find a companion for her as she was a bit depressed, and Clementine fit the bill! Intros went better than expected, and they're going to be fine together.

This is a reminder that rats need friends of their own kind! They are social animals that thrive in groups. It doesn't matter how much attention you give a single rat as it can never replace the true companionship of another furry buddy!

As for human buddies, we'd love to see you at the Critter Fair this Saturday, May 17th at William S. Hart Park in Newhall from 10am-2pm! Come say hi or volunteer at the table with us!

12/05/2025

This baby is picking up all sorts of channels with those satellite dishes for ears. 📡🐀📺

07/05/2025

Babies. That is all.

We've never had a litter of just Berk bebes. Not a hoodie in sight.

Mama Sandi comes in clutch with the foster kids. 🥹🐀🍼

They turn two weeks old this weekend.

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