Swirl's babies have opened their eyes and realized that they have a fifth sense.  As a couple days have passed by, they've become more and more active. Today was the first day they've been outside their cage with open eyesin the their short lives.  Everything is a new experience to them.  Their fur is the fluffiest I've ever seen for babies at two weeks.  And the amazing thing about their coloring is one boy has two spots, one has three and one has four.  I hope who ever takes them takes all of them together.

I saved three four week old girls from a breeder who breeds rats for snake food. YET, she also keeps a couple as pets, she says. She says "rats are great pets." If that's so, how can you let yourself sell them as food?
I can't believe the reasoning of some people in the world and this person is scum to me. When I saw her ad, I figured I had to save a couple at least.

Two albinos and one hooded. Would have been snake food, sold by scum.

Two of them are albino and one is a hooded.  The hooded is slightly bigger, about three or four days older than the albinos.  Even though they've been with me for one day, they're totally human friendly. Today, like the
three boys, they got to run around free for the first time in their lives (the cage they were in was small and I'm sure they never got to run around).  The three girls are friendly and whoever takes them can be assured you're getting excellent pets.

Swirl is coming along well too.  She takes real good care of her three boys.  But she doesn't like to be held or pet, yet. She come up on my lap and she's not afraid to come up to me now, but she still doesn't like to be held.
When it's time to put them back in their cage, I kind of have to "round up" Swirl to get her back in.  But she's a great girl. It's sad that she never had any attention until I saved her.

Swirl (and one of the albinos).          Samantha inspects.

Samantha has come a long way since she's been with me. When she first came here, she would whine when I even got close. Now she lets me pick her up, pet her, carry her just as if she had been around humans since she was little. You'd never know she was a whiny rat who hated to be touched.   I pick her up and put her in my lap and pet her for a while and she loves it.  Sometimes she'll even come to my lap on her own, now, and get a good scratching behind the ears.  Amazing considering when she first came here two weeks ago, she'd yip if I just touched her.

The three girls are ready to go to any good rat owner right now.  Swirl and Samantha will be ready shortly, when the boys are ready to go, in about two weeks. Please email me for the info.