Foster neuters went well!! and I am falling.....PHOTOS

[Godmother]

I took in Riana's younger boys this morning for their neuters. Just got home from the vet a while ago, and all went well! :joy: The boys are moving around well, eating a bit, and they hopped back into their cage. So they will probably be in good shape for the trip to SQ's..... BUT.....


I never thought to steel myself against getting attached to these boys. After all, I have always had girls (until Bill, but he was not planned). Trouble was, I have had Riana's dear boys since Saturday morning. :heart: :heart: She's raised them to be fine young manrats.

I am falling in love with them.... no, have fallen! :thud: They are sweet, and I've known them since they were terrified little rescues clinging to the bars of my Martins cage last fall.

They had been born in a little hamster cage that was on top of a snake tank. A cat regularly jumped onto the top of the tank to look in at the rats, and a very young child liked to shriek in that pitch so typical of kids that age. They would have been snake food for sure; that's what they had been bred for.

Anyway, I'll get to the point. In the last four days I became unexpectedly very attached to these dear boys, so I am going to adopt them as friends for Bill.

 

[SQ]

I'm sure that they will make fine friends for your girls too ...
:joy: :heart: :heart: :joy:

I still have seven of their sisters :heart: living here ...

tho their four brothers :heart: and two of their sisters :heart: did find good homes ...

 

[Melissa's ZOO]

That's awesome. I could never be a foster home I just get to attached and cannot bare to let them go.

 

[Vanessa]

Anyway, I'll get to the point. In the last four days I became unexpectedly very attached to these dear boys, so I am going to adopt them as friends for Bill.

I actually didn't see that coming! That is wonderful news, and I bet everyone else will love them as much as you do.

 

[Godmother]

Yes, I am what Shelagh calls a "failed foster home". Out of the rats I've fostered, seven stayed with me. And that was when I was trying to resist! And when there were homes lined up in advance for many of the babies I'd fostered.

 

[lilspaz68]

Lucky Bill and lucky you!!!
I think you did pretty good as a foster, you let these 2 out of your hands once, but when they showed back up again, you knew it was destined. :laugh4:

Weren't boys your original choice, then Corrie and friends showed up?

 

[Godmother]

"Weren't boys your original choice, then Corrie and friends showed up?"

Yes, I had hoped to have "my" four boys: Andy, Lyman, Monroe & Adam. Fate intervened, in the forms of Edith and Rhonda and then Corrie and Nettie and their babies to foster, so I became the boys' godmother instead. I had wanted boys partly because I didn't want to go through the angst of nail-gnawing during spay days! And then I loved my girls so much that I decided to stick with girls. That didn't last too long!

Interestingly, Freyr looks very much like Lyman (black self) who was a wonderful ratty. Sweet temperament and very handsome. Lyman was the son of twitch's Spider. He died the day before Freyr & Loki were born.

 

[Dahlas]

Congratulations Godmother.......I can't wait to see pictures of them.....Bill needed some "brothers"

 

[mamarat]

Congrats, Godmother. I am so happy for the boys and you!!!!! :happydance:

 

[jorats]

This is most excellent news!! I would be a horrible foster mom as well. lol

 

[twitch]

hmm, i'm not much better. stewart was only SUPPOSED to be a foster.... as was serraphim and zen.... BUT i did good. i let ace, tory, vandike, boyo and jack all go through my fingers. and i have been preparing and steeling myself against rose and guild who will be coming to stay with me while they find themselves a nice home of their own on the 28th.

i'm very glad that freyr and loki found a home with you though. riana must be thrilled. :joy:

 

[Godmother]

Well, I took some photos last night so that the boys could have a memento of their stupendous goolies :shock: They declined to pose with a full view (Riana raised them to be gentlemen, after all) but I got a couple of cute photos of them. Tonight they're looking rather subdued, and I don't have the heart to subject them to the camera.

Loki: Godmama, are you sure you won't reconsider???

Loki looking very handsome:

Loki and Freyr on the top of their temporary cage:

 

[jorats]

What handsome boys!!

 

[Dahlas]

They are very handsome.......give them kisses from me.

 

[Godmother]

Kisses will be dispensed very soon! They are still doing OK, and they ate a bit more a few minutes ago.

 

[SQ]

:heart: :heart:
very handsome boys ...

As for Lyman, Andy, Monroe, & Adam ... I always considered them your boys,
they just lived with me, so were partly mine too.

 

[RatsForever]

Anyway, I'll get to the point. In the last four days I became unexpectedly very attached to these dear boys, so I am going to adopt them as friends for Bill.

LOL! :thumbup: They are very sweet boys.

 

[lilspaz68]

They are gorgeous!!! But yeah the guilt you feel over taking away their manrathood can be incredible even though you know its the only way, you still feel terrible. :cry4:

 

[mamarat]

I can understand why you fell in love with those beauties. lol

 

[lj]

Congrats!