rhapsody
Senior Member
Egads, its been forever since I've been on here last! Life has been super busy juggling between work (I'm back at full-time), my year-old baby, and the furkids. But I think I've managed to find a delicate balance between them all.
And yes, despite parental interference (on my side of course) about my rattie crew, they are still a big part of my life. Last month, I was down to two 1.5 year old brothers (Romulus and Remus) and my super senior gal (Stick) when Romulus unexpectedly passed away. So I began the scramble to get buddies lined up Remus - seriously, Stick is so old and frail that I half expect her to be gone whenever I check in on them. Last Sunday (Valentine's Day) I did some meet 'n greets with a bunch of spayed and neutered hoarder rats at my local rescue and adopted three that seemed the most compatible with my Remus - a sweet hunky argente/topaz (?) boy, a super mellow black berkshire boy, and a very impish black berkshire girl. For now, the newbies are living in a temp cage while I'm doing gradual intros with Remus. Stick is sitting this merger out since I don't want to hasten her decline with additional stress.
Here's the newbies!
And speaking of Stick, she blitzed past her two-year adoption anniversary on January 11th!
Here she is back in 2014:
And here's my little old lady now. You can see how her rexy gray fur has rusted over time, and has become patchy here and there.
And yes, despite parental interference (on my side of course) about my rattie crew, they are still a big part of my life. Last month, I was down to two 1.5 year old brothers (Romulus and Remus) and my super senior gal (Stick) when Romulus unexpectedly passed away. So I began the scramble to get buddies lined up Remus - seriously, Stick is so old and frail that I half expect her to be gone whenever I check in on them. Last Sunday (Valentine's Day) I did some meet 'n greets with a bunch of spayed and neutered hoarder rats at my local rescue and adopted three that seemed the most compatible with my Remus - a sweet hunky argente/topaz (?) boy, a super mellow black berkshire boy, and a very impish black berkshire girl. For now, the newbies are living in a temp cage while I'm doing gradual intros with Remus. Stick is sitting this merger out since I don't want to hasten her decline with additional stress.
Here's the newbies!
Rupert (his is the only name I know at the moment)
Male black berkshire
Female black berkshire
Group photos!
Male black berkshire
Female black berkshire
Group photos!
And speaking of Stick, she blitzed past her two-year adoption anniversary on January 11th!
Here she is back in 2014:
And here's my little old lady now. You can see how her rexy gray fur has rusted over time, and has become patchy here and there.
