Foster Rat Girls

[marthaMoo]

These three came in on Monday and there just













And these two girls I've had for a couple of months now (how difficult is it to take a pic of a cream rat with pink eyes? lol)
They do apear to have eyesight problems

[sleepylizard]

Lovely girls there MarthaMoo.

All red eye rats have terrible eyesight. one of my Himi boys (all RIP) use to sway so much when trying to judge distances and things in front of him we nicknamed him Stevie (after Wonder).

good luck in finding homes, hope they aren't pregnant.

[marthaMoo]

Oh I didnt know all red eyed rats could have eye problems. That would explain my other girls aswell then, I did wonder about them also.

Nope no chance of babies thank goodness they have been kept in female groups by the same person.


I'm thinking if I dont find them homes within the next month I'm going to try bonding them all. Dont know if there poor eyesight would make that more difficult though, dont know if anyone would know about that?

[KathyM]

Originally Posted by sleepylizard

All red eye rats have terrible eyesight. .

That's not entirely true. All rats have pretty pants eyesight. In some red or pink eyed rats it is slightly worse, but because rats do not rely on eyesight but instead use other senses, it rarely incapacitates them to a serious degree. I've had completely blind rats here that lived completely normal lives with no degree of disability.

Gorgeous rats Marthamoo, I love marked siamese even though its probably wrong of me to say so as someone who is into showing. Don't care, they're ace. Of course I'm biased having Max the siamese hooded dumbo here!

[marthaMoo]

Thanks Kathy : )

Does marked mean the line down there back? Someone said to me when I first had them that they thought they were siamese, but I kept saying they couldnt be as I didnt think they should have a line down there back.

And is the white one with grey a husky?

And what would you call the browny coloured one? brown?

[LisaLQ]

Husky/roan



Black (she's just rusted, get her on a good home made rat mix, and some fresh curly kale, and it might return to black but sometimes rusting is genetic)



Black hooded



Husky/roan



Same rats? Black hooded, roan/husky.



Black (is it the same girl again?)




Siamese (cant see feet, so possibly marked)





Siamese hooded.

[KathyM]

Yep siamese is a colour not a marking, so can come in any of the rat markings (eg. hooded, berkshire, roan, essex, capped, the works).

[ami_j]

i think blazed siamese are cute

[MsJen0]

Hi. A year or two late. But! Is my new rat baby a blazed siamese? Or a marked siamese? ty!

The bottom babygirl:

[ami_j]

Originally Posted by MsJen0

Hi. A year or two late. But! Is my new rat baby a blazed siamese? Or a marked siamese? ty!

The bottom babygirl:
image

shes a roan siamese and the top girl is a berkshire siamese can tell with the little white feet