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Calico Rattery & Exotics - South Africa
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Calico Rattery is based in South Africa and was started in 2017 as a pet rat breeding service.
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Calico Rattery and Exotics has a long history going back to 2014, when I received a call from a friend saying their sister wanted to dump their rats in a field, because she got baby bunnies. I had never owned rats before, but I jumped at the chance to help an animal. I picked up these 2 boys who were housed in a tiny hamster cage, barely bigger than themselves. I named my 2 sweethearts Albion and Melandil (Mela- love, -ndil- Friend). Unfortunately, I was a bit of a dummy and myself didn't do adequate research. I housed them in, what I thought at the time, was a veritable mansion. It was a triple story hamster cage with tons and tons of tubes. Granted they didn't really live in there. They were absolute escape artists and spent majority of the time running around my bedroom and sleeping on the windowsill. My sweet boys lived to about 1.5 and 2.5 years old. About 2 years after my last boy passed away, I felt the need to get small animals again. I got 2 Syrian hamsters and they were housed in large bin cages. The doe had a litter and as I stared at the babies I realised how fascinating genetics were. Sadly, both my hamsters were taken away from me too soon due to terrible pet shop genetics. I repurposed their bin cages to be one large triple story adventure, and got 2 gorgeous rat does, Luna and Calypso, from Emsie, a reputable individual.
As I continued to explore the world of genetics, and joined tons of overseas rat groups, I realised I wanted to begin breeding rats. I reached out to the leader of a certain breeding union, and was directed to Emsie from SAFRA. She welcomed me with open arms and so began my journey into rat breeding. Emsie and Lyndsay from Luna Moon Rattery were kind enough to provide me with breeding rats. At the same time, I obtained a stunning Russian Silver Buck. I asked Emsie for breeding rights to the does I had gotten from her and was granted them. And so I began my journey into rat breeding with my first pairing of Arceus and Luna.
Fast forward to where we are now, and I have joined SARBU, left due to politics, and aloingside Imagine Rattery, we created our own community, URCSA- United Rodent Community of South Africa. Less than a year in and we have already branched out to both the USA, thank to Ashley Bradley of Ritten in Stardust Rattery, and Europe, thanks to Nanna Anderson of Igloo Rats.
Calico Rattery and Exotics has changed it's name through the years. From starting out at Calico Rattery, to becoming Calico Rodentry, to finally settling on Calico Rattery and Exotics. We currently breed rats, dubia roaches, hissing roaches and hamsters. We will soon begin breeding chinchillas and hopefully in the future move forward to ferrets, bunnies, mice (again) and ASF (again).
