Rattitude – Where Rats Rule!

One of my favorite Rat Rescues is enjoying the wonders of baby rats … two litters worth actually. Brittney, the fine young lady that runs Star’s Rat Rescue, recently took in two (pregnant) female rats who gave birth to a total of 20 baby rats! You can follow along with their daily progess reports at the RatChatter forums, here are the links:

• Pearl and her 10 new pups
• Kiwi and her 10 new pups

If you can make room in your heart and your home for some new born rats, please contact Star’s Rat Rescue. I am sure they would appreciate the help.

Here are a few iPapers, just to show what sweet little babies these are:

A darling pup sucking his toe

A mini rat pile with a very curious tyke

How can you resist these little ones?

Just something to share for those fancy pet rat keepers that like to have rat iPapers … and for any rat lovers in general.

Cat-the-Rat: Up close and personal a la Turq!

Starsky: an homage to Alfred Hitchcock

Bear has been an iPaper model in the past but being as he is so photogenic here is another rat friendly ipaper featuring Bear. Bear is a special fancy pet rat kept by RatPirate on the RatChatter forums. He wasn’t feeling well of late, but appears to have made a full recovery as indicated by this iPaper.

Bear the Jester Rat

A little smile for the readers of Rattitude, with so much sad news to write about lately this little guy brings a big smile. Thanks for sharing, Amber.

It’s been a while but I just could not resist. christianchickslc at the RatChatter forums posted some recent pictures of some of her girls.

Her little one, Saffy, has become the latest Rattitude iPaper model.

Sleeping Saffy iPaper

Another unmistakable pose for a rat iPaper:

This is Bear, one of Amber’s (ratpirate on RatChatter.com) boys.

Of course the same photo session that captured Turq with his grape also caught three of our newest girls in a slightly compromising position …

Mandy, Mindy, and Molly caught in the act free ranging between some storage bins of their nesting materials.

Another rat friendly iPaper.  This time it is one of our blue boys with a grape.

Our Turq making sure we all know it’s his grape!

After a short overnight stay with Mrs.R and myself, The Bird was released outside this morning. I like the name, The Bird, simple yet not too easily attached to.

After making sure our feline friends had their breakfast this morning, I opened The Bird’s temporary home to make sure it was getting some food and water.  A very patient 10 minutes of dribbling water and food near The Bird’s beak and I was relatively satisfied something was eaten and drank.

Then to my surprise The Bird jumped up and flew through the kitchen and around the corner before unceremoniously flying into a mirrored door and ending up on the floor.  I quickly ran to pick it up as two of our cats quickly ran to investigate.  No harm … no fowl for the kitties either.  We waited about an hour or so more and made sure to give The Bird more food and water then outside we went …

… and of course an iPaper of The Bird perched on my finger outside …

We left The Bird near a large puddle that usually forms after a rainfall in a small quiet park area behind where we live. We saw a female robin eating and drinking nearby and felt it was the best place for The Bird to be.

Once again the infamous rat iPapers are here … meet Copper. A rat in the care of Star’s Rat Rescue, one of their resident rats.

How could I not make another iPaper?!