Tinker's Pride Rodentry

15/08/2023

(NFS)
I'm in love with him and his little random head spot

14/08/2023

Facebook use to do this thing where I'd go to answer messages and it wouldn't let me at all, and would show up like this on everyone's thing. Not sure if it's doing it again, or if the time was taken to block the page this time 🤔
I do not always respond right away, as I'm not always online, but I do when I am.

To answer those I cannot answer in messages right now, YES I am still breeding, but NO I do not have any availability, yet. My program suffered a bit with me over the past year, sometimes I did not keep to pre-planned pairings, sometimes I didn't pair at all. My numbers dwindled down to the lowest they've ever been, and I may have lost a few genes completely..to be determined. I believe I mentioned it before but it WILL take time and patience to bring my breeding program back to where it was. The health and quality of my animals always ALWAYS takes priority over possible adoptions.

That being said, when I finally do have rats or mice coming available again, I will still be operating on a Wait List basis. And being on my wait list does NOT guarantee you are going to pass the approval process.

24/02/2023

I absolutely do not like getting into my personal life on my rodent page but.. try as I might, there has just been no "winning" for me.
Being a 'Spoonie', someone who lives with chronic pain and mental health issues, with a menagerie of animals, with next to zero support while my spouse has been deployed since about May/June of last year... I feel like a failure for not being able to keep up with taking pictures and keeping my page active for you guys. I know I shouldn't feel like this because it's not really my fault. Going from having a supportive and helpful husband 24/7, to living completely alone with our aninals and only having occasional company and/or help with things I can't physically do, has been extremely hard. I unfortunately have not had the extra time or mental capacity to photograph moving subjects.
Hopefully though, after the next couple months, I can finally start keeping my page up to date again 🤞🤞

28/12/2022

It's been a while since we've had babies bless us with their presence 💙

Strictly NFS. No current availability, I have kept pairings to a minimum during deployment, and will continue this practice until after

21/08/2022

If Facebook could kindly stop changing so much for pages whenever they update, that would be absolutely fabulous 🙃 I will be getting back to messages shortly!! As soon as I figure out where they went too. More posts coming soon as well! I've been playing catch-up since my spouse was recently deployed, I greatly appreciate your patience

Now, let's take a poll:
What would you like to see more of first?
Mice: 👍
Rats: ❤️

22/07/2022

Seriously one of my favorite mouse projects is crossing Angora with Abyssinian. Some of these coats are just too dang funny not to share lol the coat range can turn out quite hilarious. I have a few others to grab photos of to share but this guy's little whispy Angora hairs were cracking me up

10/07/2022

Waitlisters: "Do you know when you'll have babies available??"
Me: "Hopefully soon if things pan out how I've planned them! 😁"
The Rat Gods for the last few months: 👀 how 'bout how we plan them instead..

Needless to say, I know it's been a heck of a wait, but there's only so much that's actually in *my* control when it comes to breeding. Thank you all for being so SO patient. So far I've been able to bring both rex and velveteen back from almost losing them (I think both 🤞🤞). I do love standard coats, but I'd really miss my rexoids. There is likely going to be a little bit more of a wait on availability, as it will take some time as animals aren't exactly *snap* ready. However, we will hopefully soon have a litter or two of just standard coated babies, and POSSIBLY hairless coming available soon.

24/05/2022

*N F S*
Between the Renaissance Faire events I was asked to attend, and preparing myself, the household, and my husband to be military-napped for a month; things have been a little hectic around here and I have yet to have time to put aside for some well-lit booth photos. I hope these quick shots of my two-fer litter will suffice for the time being. ...and now I have name ideas swirling around for my "2 liters" 😂 one boy, one girl.

23/05/2022

Rats are pretty amazing creatures ❤

17/05/2022

The past few weekends I've been working some major events, being gone 3-4 days at a time and upkeeping my rodentry and household in the days between. I'm taking a well deserved rest break before I start flooding your feed with pictures of my rattos and meece again lol.
I'm super excited about Oddball my odd eye, she appears to have what we breeders call a "dragon eye"! Getting clear photos has proven rather difficult so far, be it glare or her moving her head ever so slightly. One of my coat types I was afraid I was losing, I was able to bring back in the only litter that was born of the 4 does I had paired... I've been running into issues left and right the last 10 months, that I'd never ever had before and this litter, albeit only of 2, was a very welcome sigh of relief.

02/05/2022

I will be getting back to messages soon! I've been away from home for a few days for a Renaissance Faire 😊

04/04/2022

(Strictly in-progress line, *NFS*, soon though!)
These two are from Jewel and King Loui 💙 and since I've been on a Disney movie kick recently, they have received names! Meet Briar (darker marking) and Rose (lighter)! 🤔 I suppose that means their brother should be Prince Philip to stick to the theme? I'll snag recent pics of him for y'all tomorrow, he looks just like his Grandaddy Peridot.

23/03/2022

More celebRATion photos for you guys with my little adorable chicken breasts!
I'm not the best at editing, so I'm VERY much regretting the blue balloon because that first pic would have been even more amazing if Judge Judy had an eyeball lol. "Shake it off" worked well for her at the end, she ditched the hat, snagged a nibble off the frosting and popcorned with excitement at the flavor. Sam-E over here doing her best impression of a T-rex lol, didn't mind her hat at all. She didn't sample the cupcake til after pics when I was sharing it with the rest of the enclosure, she loved the cake portion.

**Disclaimer: once again I'd like to make it clear that my rats do not get "junk food" style foods very often so this is a VERY rare treat. That was supervised when given and for the sole purpose of this fun little photo shoot. I used one of each cake flavor, and they were distributed to multiple rats after the shoot**

20/03/2022

If you thought King Loui wasn't getting his own post, you were wrong. LOOK HOW HANDSOME!! This dude is so photogenic I swear, he's an absolutely gorgeous boy. (My new phone cameras are impressive 👌)

20/03/2022

The month of March is not only when Tinker's Pride officially began back in 2018, but it's also my birth month! To celebRATe the occasion, I made tiny party hats for my rats! I made the banner and spruced up the balloons with crochet chain "ribbon" tails. Tiny piñata courtesy of Walmart.

Here are Sassafras and Trubl to give y'all a first look 😁 more pics to come! I might do more over the week as well lol I'm having a blast with the hats

(*Disclaimer* I do NOT give my rats "junk food" type items often, so the cupcakes were a very rare treat for them. This was divided among multiple rats as well.)

19/03/2022

I wanted to give you guys a little sneaky peak at what I've been working on the last couple weeks for this month's shoot 💙 I present King Loui wearing one of the party hats I've been making! I'm perfecting the props and setup for these pics right now so I can get them done tonight and posted by tomorrow 😁

15/03/2022

Hehe, whoops! I've been stuck in a loop of "oh snap, it's late, I'll just post tomorrow", and then forgetting again lol. I do NOT have availability YET but, I have a few photos of project lines I've forgotten to share that I will be posting 😊 I also finally got my new phone so I'll get to bombard y'all with adoarable little critter photos once more!

Anywho, meet Oddball!! It's been a while since I've had odd-eye pop up and I must say, it made her even more adorable than she was already lol. You guys will see her again soon in my upcoming shoot! I'm almost finished with the mini-props for it, I'm super excited to start taking pics again

23/02/2022

Lovely fans and followers (especially local), I have some great news to share with you now that my family and friends have been told. A while back I posted about closing due to a pending move (would've been in May or soon after), and I tentatively opened back up recently on the off chance I would be able to contact a few of my patient waitlisted folks with news before I had to get ready for it. Well, I think this news will be much better than that.
While I won't have any litters available yet with how slow I'm taking things these last few months, BUT..

Tinker's Pride Rodentry will remain in our current town, for the next few years!
Now I know that isn't as exciting as availability, but I think it's pretty great news

18/01/2022

This is too cute! All the rats 💙💙
I don't know who the artist is to tag for credit

06/01/2022

This is super cute!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1016518745428637&id=138771473203373

What do you mean they aren't my biological children?

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06/01/2022

I know I KNOW, y'all have been patiently waiting for updates from me 💙💙

*LINE NOT AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC* ..(yet)

After a freaking YEAR of trying to pair known hairless carriers to one another, I had given up and thought... "well maybe my hairless wasn't after all??"
Well I didn't outright notice hairless under dad when I skimmed my notes and paired, and was happily surprised by not just one, but TWO hairless babies 😁😁
Meet Sam-E (Sam Elliot) and her sister JJ (Judge Judy)! I am absolutely thrilled with them. Lol and I will be setting up my photo booth soon to get some fancier floral pics of the whole litter, like y'all are use to. Sometimes I slack 🤫🤫

This line is currently being monitored for, and bred away from, possible eye issues, and may not be made available for some time.

28/11/2021

Tinker's Pride will be resuming public adoptions after the holidays. This is going to be on a waitlist basis only, as my litters will be very few at a time.

To be successfully added to our waitlist, you must complete the vetting process with me. Right now, our online application is still down (being closed, I procrastinated). Until it is back up and running, I'll be doing things the old fashioned way with a list of requirements from you, asking many many questions, providing educational links, requesting enclosure photos, etc. This is a lengthy process, so you'll have to bear with me (at least until I fix the online 😉). PLEASE do not start the vetting process if you are not 100% sure about getting rats.
Friendly reminder that Tinker's Pride reserves the right to refuse anyone for -ANY- reason. And that ALL rats MUST leave in same s*x duos, trios, or more. NO exceptions.