By Stephanie Cameron
Rattie Ratz Rescue is a not-for-profit rat rescue located in Northern California dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of domestic pet rats. The rescue averages 250-300 adoptions each year and today’s column is featuring two sweet girls that were adopted last year.
Daphne and Janie came into the rescue separately by private intake. Once they were in the rescue the volunteers decided they would do well together and introduced the girls. The rest is history. The girls were known as Darla (chocolate) and Deenie (blue rex) for the brief one month stay they had within the rescue’s foster program. Once they were cleared from quarantine they had a lot of interest, after all, who wouldn’t be taken in by those sweet faces? And after just a couple of weeks they were going home with Rei.
Janie and Daphne |
Janie and Daphne are still happy and healthy with Rei, her husband and their young son. It sounds like Janie and Daphne are fostering the next generation of rat lovers with their young human brother. Rei describes how their one-and-a-half-year-old son “loves them (he calls them Nini and Apni), and talks about them all the time. He insists on feeding them fruits and veggies by hand every day, and is constantly finding/making scraps of paper, tissues, etc. to give them for their nests. Janie and Daphne are very patient with him, and even let him touch them gently with one finger (supervised by Mom or Dad, of course). He loves them so much that he has picked out a stuffed rat as his favorite stuffed animal. He sleeps with his stuffed rat, "Mimi," every night, and takes her with him everywhere he goes.”
Daphne |
"Of the two, Daphne is more adventurous and active. She is constantly running on the wheel, and looking for ways to push the envelope while exploring outside of the cage. Janie is a little more easygoing but loves to cuddle up for a snack, especially Cheerios. Both enjoy cuddling under a cozy blanket with me while I decompress in the evening, and are ever vigilant for any threatening ‘sock monsters’ (i.e. my feet).”
Janie |
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