Ratanist
Long Time Junior Member
Best Friend Rodent Rescue (BFRR) in Kenmore, WA is in immediate need of
donations toward 17 emergency spays.
In the last few days, a hoarder dumped a huge number of rats at the door
of the Tacoma Humane Society. These vulnerable rats, including a lot of
tiny babies, were piled in cardboard boxes - photo here:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l346/snoozanda/Tacoma Rats/IMG 01447-20110823-1540.jpg
BFRR recently took in 80 rats from the much-publicized California
hoarder incident (as seen on the TV series "Hoarders").
BFRR has now taken in another 68 rats from this new Tacoma situation.
The new Tacoma group includes about 17 breeding age females. All of them
may have been with males, so this is a crisis! They could potentially
produce over 200 babies. So they must be spayed urgently.
Some spay money has been raised already, but much more will be needed.We
already have at least one exotics vet lined up to do some of the spays
at the greatly reduced rate of $55 per spay.
Anyone donating all (or most) of the price of a spay will be considered
first for adopting that rat.
If you can't afford the full spay price, donations in any amount are
desperately needed.
According to Joanne from BFRR:
"The first dump [at Tacoma HS] was last week - there were 20 boys, 2
of whom were euthanized immediately because they came in panicky and one
bit someone⦠Thank goodness the moms didn't start biting until
they arrived at our quarantine home yesterday, and got moved into their
cages, or I'm sure all of the babies and moms would have been
euthanized too!... I now have 68 new rats at my own quarantine home!
This includes 4 sets of babies. The oldest babies appear to be about 3
weeks. Then there are 17 young ladies, one of which is obviously
pregnant and all of which unfortunately could very likely be pregnant.
At this point in time, we cannot afford to spay all of those girls!"
If all 17 females have litters it could mean another 204+ babies. It
should also be noted that the 4 mom's who already have babies could
easily be pregnant again. In addition to the current influx, BFFR
already has 105 rats in rescue, plus a number of other species.
If you can possibly help out, they have a donation button on their
website here:
http://www.bfrr.org/ways-to-help.html
Or email Joanne at: [email protected]
Obviously much more help will be needed with this rescue: foster homes,
adopters, rat trains to other rescues, and donations of food and
supplies.
But right now the major concern is putting a lid on the population
explosion through emergency spays.
Please feel free to crosspost this information.
Lizzy O Sullivan, Kimber Conway, Susan Armstrong and Joanne Gemmer (Volunteers)
http://www.bfrr.org/index.html
donations toward 17 emergency spays.
In the last few days, a hoarder dumped a huge number of rats at the door
of the Tacoma Humane Society. These vulnerable rats, including a lot of
tiny babies, were piled in cardboard boxes - photo here:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l346/snoozanda/Tacoma Rats/IMG 01447-20110823-1540.jpg
BFRR recently took in 80 rats from the much-publicized California
hoarder incident (as seen on the TV series "Hoarders").
BFRR has now taken in another 68 rats from this new Tacoma situation.
The new Tacoma group includes about 17 breeding age females. All of them
may have been with males, so this is a crisis! They could potentially
produce over 200 babies. So they must be spayed urgently.
Some spay money has been raised already, but much more will be needed.We
already have at least one exotics vet lined up to do some of the spays
at the greatly reduced rate of $55 per spay.
Anyone donating all (or most) of the price of a spay will be considered
first for adopting that rat.
If you can't afford the full spay price, donations in any amount are
desperately needed.
According to Joanne from BFRR:
"The first dump [at Tacoma HS] was last week - there were 20 boys, 2
of whom were euthanized immediately because they came in panicky and one
bit someone⦠Thank goodness the moms didn't start biting until
they arrived at our quarantine home yesterday, and got moved into their
cages, or I'm sure all of the babies and moms would have been
euthanized too!... I now have 68 new rats at my own quarantine home!
This includes 4 sets of babies. The oldest babies appear to be about 3
weeks. Then there are 17 young ladies, one of which is obviously
pregnant and all of which unfortunately could very likely be pregnant.
At this point in time, we cannot afford to spay all of those girls!"
If all 17 females have litters it could mean another 204+ babies. It
should also be noted that the 4 mom's who already have babies could
easily be pregnant again. In addition to the current influx, BFFR
already has 105 rats in rescue, plus a number of other species.
If you can possibly help out, they have a donation button on their
website here:
http://www.bfrr.org/ways-to-help.html
Or email Joanne at: [email protected]
Obviously much more help will be needed with this rescue: foster homes,
adopters, rat trains to other rescues, and donations of food and
supplies.
But right now the major concern is putting a lid on the population
explosion through emergency spays.
Please feel free to crosspost this information.
Lizzy O Sullivan, Kimber Conway, Susan Armstrong and Joanne Gemmer (Volunteers)
http://www.bfrr.org/index.html