Central Texas Rat Rescue

05/01/2025

Please donate if you are able, and spread the message that abandoning domestic animals outside is unacceptable animal cruelty.

01/01/2025

16/12/2024

Great picture of CTRR alumni Mini Muffin and Crystal Pepsi. ❤️ Love getting happy followups!

29/10/2024

Well said.

There was recently a reptile expo in Schertz and as always around this time following an expo, I'm getting inundated with surrender requests from those that purchased (they will say rescued) rats from vendors there. A few things regarding this without getting into the politics if you are really rescuing them or not etc.

If you feel compelled to purchase rats from these venues take responsibility for that decision and stop asking rescues to take them. If you have no intentions of vetting them (because they will likely be sick and/or have parasites) and keeping them, then don't buy them. Yes, my heart aches for them badly so I understand how you feel. The suffering these animals endure haunts my soul every single day because I'm surrounded by it EVERY SINGLE DAY. Sometimes to the point its debilitating. But I cannot save them all and I cannot take in every surrender request. People often think they are the only ones with oops litters, or a sick rat they cant afford to vet. They are not, for every one person I'm assisting there are at least three or four more behind them/you needing assistance.

Another point; these rats are high risk, meaning they need strict quarantine, and females will most likely be pregnant. If you, the purchaser/rescuer, are NOT PREPARED to take this on or ethically rehome them yourself, then do not take them. Rescue is NOT the default. I am a home-based rescue paying for everything out of my own pocket and with the limited donations we get (thank you to those that donate) but it is not nearly enough to cover day to day operations much less all the medical bills. And when I say ethically rehome, that means disclose where you purchased them from and indicate females are likely pregnant. It is unethical to not be forthcoming so the new guardians/owners can be prepared for what they are getting themselves into and I HIGHLY recommend quarantining new rats, ALWAYS, no matter where they come from. People do lie about when and where they get rats from and I have had people contact me that didn't quarantine new rats that they got from a rehome site and all rats ended up dying within a week. The devastation of that loss is not worth the slight inconvenience of quarantining.

I know this post likely wont reach the intended audience but I'm trying to do due diligence here. Thank you to our supporters and for understanding our position on this. We always try to help, even in these situations, however and when we can, but the expectation should not be, rescue will take your rats, that cannot be a factor when making the decision to purchase rats or any animals.

Pic of Izzie one of our permanent residents (she's an extremely territorial biter)

27/10/2024

Adopted

20/10/2024

Thank you to all those hard working vet techs out there!

28/09/2024

Dolly and Reba (adoption pending). Adopter is fostering to adopt while making sure Reba heals up.

28/09/2024

Etienne and Pierre were adopted today to a repeat adopter! Yay!

21/09/2024

Neutered today and going home soon!

21/09/2024

Adoption pending

21/09/2024

The dumped babies are all doing well. Adoptions pending

21/09/2024

Beau and Pascal (adopted)

20/09/2024

Annette, Pauline, Dominique, and Lilou were adopted together to a repeat adopter today! Hooray!

18/09/2024

I hate that I have to post about this, but I'm seeing alarming things going on. Please please do your research when surrendering your animal to a rescue or sanctuary. There are legit rescues operating without a 501c3, but a rescue should NOT be claiming they are a non-profit or a 501c3 without actually being one. Huge red flag. Rescues should not breed, another red flag. A rescue or sanctuary should not be posting on their page or rehoming pages soliciting to take in your animals, red flag. For the most part, rescues are overrun with animals, broke and I find it extremely odd for a rescue to be asking or begging to take in people's animals, there could be very very rare exceptions when a rescue feels like they need to step in, for example, safety of an animal being posted etc. Do cross searches on Facebook, Craigslist and other social media. Look these people up. 501c3 non-profits will have an EIN. Rescues can be a non-profit without 501c3 status, it's two separate processes. The Texas Comptroller has a non-profit search, the IRS has a 501c3 search.

Odelie says, let's keep animals safe ♥️

17/09/2024

Georgette and Jacqueline were adopted today to a repeat adopter.

16/09/2024

Pierre and Etienne, neutered boys (Beau and Pascal have been adopted)