SQ
Senior Member - Vegan for the animals
Yesterday I saw a kijiji ad for a Free rat they wanted gone that day.
The ad read "Free Rat Not hand trained. Will bite."
(http://www.ratshackforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=447945#post447945)
Not an ad that would encourage adoption as a pet.
When I inquired, I was told that he was a feeder, an 8 month old boy that had been fed to a snake but had not been eaten.
The owner's daughter decided to keep the baby rat as a pet, but didn't handle him.
I offered to socialize him if someone would give him a good home.
Someone stepped forward and offered to adopt the boy once he was socialized.
With help, I found someone (the friend of someone I know, but whom I don't know) who generously agreed to drive me to get the rattie. Since I was able to sell a rat cage yesterday I had enough money to pay for the gas.
This afternoon I was driven to Saint John to pick up the 8 month old male biter.
We met in the parking lot of a Petrocan gas station to make the exchange.
The woman was glad that he was going to a good home instead of being eaten by a snake.
He turned out to be a sweet young curious little girl.
It seems that this sweet little nameless girl may have nipped a child's finger that was poked through the bars of her tiny hamster cage.
Here are a few pictures taken after the long drive home.
in the hammock in my carrier
little shoulder sitter
Brave, curious little girl climbed out of the carrier
and a belly shot
Looks like an older injury to her left front ankle and her left ear
The ad read "Free Rat Not hand trained. Will bite."
(http://www.ratshackforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=447945#post447945)
Not an ad that would encourage adoption as a pet.
When I inquired, I was told that he was a feeder, an 8 month old boy that had been fed to a snake but had not been eaten.
The owner's daughter decided to keep the baby rat as a pet, but didn't handle him.
I offered to socialize him if someone would give him a good home.
Someone stepped forward and offered to adopt the boy once he was socialized.
With help, I found someone (the friend of someone I know, but whom I don't know) who generously agreed to drive me to get the rattie. Since I was able to sell a rat cage yesterday I had enough money to pay for the gas.
This afternoon I was driven to Saint John to pick up the 8 month old male biter.
We met in the parking lot of a Petrocan gas station to make the exchange.
The woman was glad that he was going to a good home instead of being eaten by a snake.
He turned out to be a sweet young curious little girl.
It seems that this sweet little nameless girl may have nipped a child's finger that was poked through the bars of her tiny hamster cage.
Here are a few pictures taken after the long drive home.
in the hammock in my carrier
little shoulder sitter
Brave, curious little girl climbed out of the carrier
and a belly shot
Looks like an older injury to her left front ankle and her left ear
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