Pics of my rat boys

Just figured I'd post piccies of them

Cairo was a free-ad rat, worried about where he was going to end up so I took him in. Seeing as rats are incredibly social, I adopted two young boys to introduce with him, and they get along great! Tuscany and Kaleb are two out of over 1500 rats that were stuck in a horrible rat hoarding case recently in petaluma, california. They were all crammed in cages, starved of attention, although some rats were running loose around the place also. Most were euthanised, however some lucky ones did make it out alive.


Cairo:


http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairo_bededge.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairo_8_24_06.jpg

hehe his adorable tummy


http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairo_walkbed.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairo_face.jpg



http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairoincage.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairosnoop.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Cairo/cairowash.jpg

Cairo's shadow Kaleb:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_8_24_06.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_8_24_061.jpg





http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_blanket.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_cute.jpg



http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_wash.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Kaleb/kaleb_wash1.jpg

And my sweetie-pie Tuscany ^.^:

Yawn :











His paws on the camera strap lol:

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Tuscany/tuscany_paws_camera.jpg



http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Tuscany/tuscany8_24_06_7.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/Tuscany/tuscany8_24_06_5.jpg

And piccies of them together:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/boysdesk.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/boysdesk1.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/boysdesk2.jpg

I LOVE this picture:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/cairo_kaleb_jump.jpg

(Ignore the root beer stains, the rats spilled it lol)



http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/cairokaleb8_24_06_3.jpg





http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/cairotuscany8_24_06.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/cairotuscany8_24_06_1.jpg

Cairo pinning Kaleb :roll:


http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/ratty_insanity/cairotuscanykalebtail8_24_06.jpg


I do have two other boys that were adopted 3 days ago.

They were both owned by someone who lived in an apartment, when they moved out, they abandoned those rats in the apartment without food or water, along with a rabbit (Who is now my foster).

They've been to the vet, have been put in revolution for mites, antibiotics for respiratory infections, and one of the boys has sores on his feet likely from living in a dirty cage that are being treated with epsom salts.

This is one of the boys, he doesn't have mites quite so bad as the other, but he is TERRIFIED of people. Poor guy just doesn't understand that people can be kind. He was literally screaming as my vet had to hold him to check his lungs. Poor guy, rats are so outgoing that I am incredibly shocked with how terrified he is.




And this is the other boy. He is a real sweetie. As I was sitting with him in my lap, stroking him, he was bruxing and eye boggling away (Sign of contentment/happiness) And it made me wonder how some people can be so heartless, and why it was so hard to look after these boys, or why they hated them so much, that they had to abandon them especially without food and water. It's heartbreaking, something so simple can keep such a mistreated and neglected ratty so happy, I just don't understand why people couldn't give it to him, all he asks is for a little love. Sweet little man.

I'm not entirely sure if ALL this fur loss is due to the mites, or if he is simply an "old man rex rat" - We will see once the mites are all treated and his fur grows back in



You can see all his hair loss in these pictures:








And his feet :



Nursing them back to health, showing the black hooded boy that people aren't so bad, and hopefully I can get them all better and let them enjoy the rest of their life, which they deserved right from the start.

Aww wow, you seem to love black rats!
Tuscanys agouti shading is gorgeous!

And ouch at the last rats bumblefoot

@Debs111 said:

Aww wow, you seem to love black rats!
Tuscanys agouti shading is gorgeous!

And ouch at the last rats bumblefoot

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lol thanks And I do love black rats....Though it's a funny thing the only black rat I did choose was Kaleb, since him and Tuscany were adopted from a wonderfull small animal rescue.

The others were just in need and so I took them in.

The two new boys weren't receiveing any veterinary care at the shelter :roll:

They were seperated from each other (they had been living together) and were being adopted out as-is....They didn't even give me a heads up that they "might" be ill. My vet agreed with me that it's obvious though :roll:

Gorgeous ratties!!

Awwww, gorgeous rats!

awwww I love ratties

Thanks guys! They're very sweet boys