Wonderful World Of Rats

A blog for the rat lover.

About Me

Rebecca

I'm a 36 year old woman California. My passion in life is animals, but mainly rats/rodents. My other passions include... Blogging (which is my newest passion)and Photography, art, sewing, Crafts, Graphics, Paranormal; I love the show Ghost Hunters. Hmmmm what else. I have many more interests but I'll add them another time.

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Cute Website.

6:20 PM Posted In websites Edit This

Here is a cute rattie website i found-- Cute, cute pictures!

http://www.ratlymanor.com.au/ourrats.htm

Wet Rat

1:06 PM Posted In Photos Edit This

I just found these and thought I'd share. They aren't the best pics but i love the last one-- all you see is the tail lol.

Good page on African Pouched Rats.

1:42 PM Posted In African Puched Rats Edit This

I know some of you who read this blog and are friends of myself and belong to a few of the same rat groups adore these African Pouched Rats, as do i. Some of you may have seen this site but i thought I'd blog it anyway, and it will be in the archives if any newbie comes along.
http://www.80stoysale.com/pouchedrat.html

Big rat Small rat

12:21 PM Posted In Photos Edit This

Cute pic.

New Feature- Rats for Adoption.

11:35 AM Posted In Rat Rescues , Rats for Adoption Edit This

One of the things i wanted for this blog is to help rats in need along with all the fun stuff and pictures i do here. So a new feature here will be to list rats that are for adoption from various websites/rescues and different locations around the United States, possibly Europe, Australia and Canada in the future.

Once in a while i will be posting a few rats that are up for adoption or rats who need fostering.

In the future i will do the format different than you see below. Right now, I'm just testing this out along with how i want to do this.

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Here are today's rats that i have found:

Califnornia

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=9098354

Adorable, kind-natured, intelligent, charming fancy rats make good companions for people and other pets. Watch a fascinating pair of rats behave in an open-air cage. Choose from boys or girls, some dumbos, various hoods, colors, markings. BOYS AND GIRLS 2 boys @ 3 months, 1 girl at 2.5 months, 5 girls & boys @ 5 weeks, 9 girls and boys @ 4 weeks. Hand-fed, well-bred. Nominal adoption fee: $15 each, $25 for 2, $30 for 3, $10 for each beyond that. Good-home inquiries ONLY (no bunchers or raptor-feeders, please): (310) 801-0724. Click link for photo album. http://picasaweb.google.com/ratrac/RatPix1 LaVonne (lavperry@onebox.com) or (310) 237-6028 Scott (310) 359-0310

Click the link above the photo for all the informaton!!

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New York City

Peaches & Pearl

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=10645381

These two gentle pocket pets were abandoned in a filthy cage several weeks ago. Fortunately, they were discovered and brought to the safety of our shelter. Peaches and Pearl enjoy being handled and are very gentle. Rats are known to be excellent and intelligent pets. We wish for them to be adopted together. The adoption fee is $25.00, and this includes their cage.

For all the info click the link above photos!

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Stratford, CT

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=10537920

We have 3 male white rats available for adoption! Good personalities and very gentle. Please call Brandee at 203-767-1150. Please visit our web site for more information on our group at www.hopalonghollow.org. Thanks for hopping by!

Click link above photo for all the info!!

More coming soon, please check back often.

Note: Do not contact me/this blog regarding these adoptions, i am only providing the info, i am not involved with any of the adoptions, you must click on the links i have provided and fallow instructions on the website.

The Nibbler- Brisbane Rat Rescue...

10:52 AM Posted In Rat Art , Rat Rescues Edit This

Found this photo on Etsy. You can order a print of this cute drawing at Etsy and it says in the photo description that 10% of the sales go to the Brisbane Rat Rescue. The link is below.

I just thought this was a nice drawing.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11202560

Note: Well, I'm having trouble uploading the photo, but you can see it at the link above

Rat in Translation.

2:33 PM Posted In Fun and Games , Rat Facts Edit This

I thought this would be a fun little thing to blog; the word 'Rat' in various languages. I hunted down one of those easy-to-use word translators on line. It worked pretty well but for some languages, such as Chines and Japanese, i got '???' for one and the other '??' LOL.

This translator i used only offered a few languages and those are the languages i am putting below. Hey... if you know of any other somewhat easy-to-use translators that offer more languages leave me a comment with a link. That would be awesome.

I think the symbol one's are pretty cool. See, i told you 'Wonderful World of Rat's was not going to be a typical website or blog about rats. I try very hard to make this blog very unique. And the more i blog the more unique things and idea's i come up with.

Well, i hope you find this interesting as i did, if not... well you passed a few minutes of time lol.

Oh also, if you find any of these wrong or are different than what you know or speak, let me know and I will amend the list and/or offer your version of 'Rat.' What i put below is simply what the translator gave me.

RAT:

German - Ratte
Italian- Ratto
French- Rat
Portuguese- Rato
Dutch- Rat
Greek- Αρουραίος
Sweedish- Tjalla
Russian- Крыса
Arabic- فأرة

Rats and a 'Mouse'

2:01 PM Posted In Funny Rat Photos , Photo's Edit This

"Why i Love Rats" Essay Challenge.

1:21 PM Posted In Fun and Games Edit This

Ok all you rat lovers... Now is the time to let everyone know why you love rats.

What is the "Why I Love Rats' Essay Challenge? Well, it's pretty much what is says. It's an Essay and a Challenge. What i want you all to do is right a small essay on why you love rats. It can be a 2-4 medium size paragraphs.

Simply write why you love rats... write it as beautifully and passionately as you can. Tell us all why you love rats.... from the smallest little thing to the largest thing you love about rats.

I don't want it to be: "I love rats because they are cute" Well yea, rats sure are cute but that's not what i want, what i want is deep in your soul, write the essay as if you are digging deep into yourself to tell the world how wonderful rats are. Write it as if you were trying to convince the world how amazing rats are and write it as if you were trying to convert all the non-rat lovers out there.

Ok.. after you write the essay, what next? E mail it to me: Rsungodess20032aol.com

I will read all the essays that are submitted to me and I'll post them here on 'Wonderful World of Rats' and than everyone will vote on which essay's they liked the best. The 3 best essays will get a small sample bag of my homemade 'Spoiled rat treat mix' --this is not a staple food (everyday food) it is a treat mix for occasional snackage lol. And the one voted the absolute best will have their entire essay put on the bottom of this blog permanently along with a picture of one of your rats. I may add more things to the winners stuff through out the month.. but it won't be much. This is primarily for fun.

So ok, you have a month to write your essay. Please submit it by May 12th. I will read them over a coarse of a few days and than begin the winner process.

Ok... so start thinking, start jotting things down... and remeber BE ORIGINAL, BE CREATIVE !!!

-Rebecca

PS... please leave me a comment to let me know if you are going to take part in this. Just so i can get a feel for how many people will be writing essays. - Thank you

I'm so excited!!!

9:13 AM Posted In News , updates Edit This

My rat photo's from my Fotki site- Http://public.fotki.com/ratgirl2005 are going to be in an upcoming issue of Rat World Magazine, in an article called "IdentiFURcation'. The article is about the different furs that rats have and can have.

Isn't this just so amazing and wonderful. This is something i have dreamed about. 7 years of taking pictures of rats and finally i get recognized in a magazine, not that all of your compliments isn't recognition enough, it is and i appreciate all your complements over the past 7 years... but being in a magazine... omg. I am tickled pink!!!

I will keep you all updated on this... as i get info.

WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO *Big Smile* on my face right now!

-Rebecca

Some cute rat photo's i found this morning...

10:56 AM Posted In Various Edit This

New Drawing i did.

5:25 PM Posted In My Rat Drawings Edit This

This is a new drawing i did. I did it all in photoshop. I drew it all using a computer mouse. I didn't use any photoshop tricks such as filters or anything, this is all bran to hand, mouse to computer. I don't have one of those graphic drawing pads. If i had, had one of those drawing pads this drawing would have taken a lot less time and with a lot less frustration lol. But anyway... Ok, so in my opinion i can draw a tad bit better than this but i was going for a specific style. A style i saw on line from an artist. And this wasn't an attempt at real life drawing, this was a cartoon-style drawing. This artist had beautiful drawings of animals, wonderful drawings. But, he also had some drawings that were a sloppy style of drawing. It's hard to explain. His sloppy drawings although sloppy were just as wonderful as his real life drawings.. I don't know if there is a name for this style but i wanted to try it. So the drawing you see here is my attempt at that. And I'll tell ya... it isn't easy trying to draw sloppy lol. I know that sounds crazy but it's true. I can only draw a little bit better than what you see here so maybe i didn't really do that sloppy-style, maybe this is closer to how i really draw lol. Anyway... so this is my newest drawing. I kinda like drawing in photoshop more than i do with pencil and paper. With photoshop, i love how one can change the opacity of the color your using rather than selecting a darker or lighter version of the same color. I'm not sure that makes sense though. Well let me know what you think.

Wildie goes Domestic.

2:00 PM Posted In Wild ratties , Wildies gone Domestic Edit This

This is a picture of my good friend Drusilla's wild rattie. I just wanted to share this pic with everyone so some of you could see what a wildie looks like. Drusilla Received the wildie from someone else. The rattie's name is Angel and she was found on the sidewalk and rescued than given to Drusilla who hand raised her. She used a eye dropper to feed the little darling and as you can see the baby grew up to be a magnificent and glorious rat.

Wild rats look a tad different than domestic rats. Dru, did i get this info and story right? If you can leave a brief comment on how wildies look different than Domestics -- in your opinion... that would be great. Also if i got the story wrong please add that into the comment and i will amend this post.

Oh wait... this is Angel right? LOL

Little Baby Agouti

1:34 PM Posted In Agouti , Babies Edit This

Nice little photo. This baby looks like my Christopher, Fletcher, Daphne and Delilah when they were babies. Sadly, Chrstopher and Daphne are long gone :(

This Is One Outrageously Beautiful Rat

1:27 PM Posted In Photo's , Unusual Markings Edit This

What a beauty huh?!

Uh ohhhh

8:31 AM Posted In Photo's Edit This

This is one cute PEW

8:30 AM Posted In PEWS , Photo's Edit This

Beatuful Wildie

3:39 PM Posted In Photo's Edit This

Actually the more i look at this picture it looks like a domestic rat but who knows. If i were going by the wild setting I'd guess it's a wildie or a Rattus Rattus. What do you thnk?

Could just be someone's pet rat and they took this great photo of it.

Friends

7:09 PM Posted In Chidlren and rats , Photo's Edit This

I love seeing pictures of children with rats. Gives me hope that maybe someday rats will be more accepted. The younger children are exposed to rats the better... hopefully when they are adults they will still love rats and the more rat lovers out there, the better for rats.

Sorry for the 'Fotosearch' Logo. Can you believe if i wanted this photo on my blog without the Fotosearch log it would cost me $49.99. That's a little spendy!