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thejunipertree ([personal profile] thejunipertree) wrote2003-06-10 12:20 am
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a clarification of my earlier post

Well, as it would turn out...the two newest boys I got about a month ago are not actually boys.

>:O

Let me do that again, just for good measure.

>:O

It would also appear that they are both pregnant.

>:O

I'm really pissed about this, if anyone can't tell already. I relied on the breeder to give me two males. I asked a billion times. I /trusted/ this person to know. Over the past month, I kept looking at them and wondering where their errrr...boy parts were. When they were going to drop. Wondering what the hell was wrong. I'd been told by a few people that they were still pretty young and that sometimes being around such a dominant as my hairless boy, Aardie, would cause them to shrink up into their body cavity at times. I've only ever had a girl rat before, so I had zero experience with all of this.

Now I feel like a jackass.

Last night, I decided to do some research on my own because of how fat the one, Aleister, seemed to be getting. I had him on my lap while I sat at the computer, I compared with photos.

I noticed nipples.

grr.

Among other things.

So. Now I have two almost definitely impregnated girl rats and one boy rat.
I'm going to have quite a few babies soon, I reckon.
I suppose I'll keep the two girls, as I've grown attached to them even though I was quite adamant about only wanting boys. And possibly one or two boys from the litter (introducing them into the main cage after they've been properly neutered, that is). Aardie has to be neutered. And I have to separate the mommas so they don't theif babies from each other.

The babies are sure to be fantastic, with the complete grab bag of potential types. The two girls I have, Speck and Aleister, are from the same litter. One of them is an albino dumbo and the other is a double rex (?) dumbo. The father, Aardie, is a hairless. Who knows what the babies are going to look like?

Anyone in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area looking for babies?

FALSE CRYPTORCHIDISM!!!!1111

[identity profile] hexennacht.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Among other things.

RAT PUSSEH!

Re: FALSE CRYPTORCHIDISM!!!!1111

[identity profile] vivaemptiness.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
that would be the best band name EVER.

yummins

[identity profile] bluemoonbaby.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
congrats, grandma! start taking bets on how many. john says 16 after a couple are eaten. i'll go with 12. after some have been eaten. dubin's in for 10 post eaten. puttys just down for eating.

Re: yummins

[identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They can have up to 12 EACH.

Re: yummins

[identity profile] vivaemptiness.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
they EAT THEIR YOUNG????

:O




that's so cool.

Re: yummins

[identity profile] hexennacht.livejournal.com 2003-06-09 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, rats are not unlike humans. ;>

Re: yummins

[identity profile] flemco.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hell, I eat their young all the time. Nothing like a nice bowl of pinkys in milk.

Re: yummins

[identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Must be more of that crazy AZN cuisine I keep hearing about.

Re: yummins

[identity profile] ninjalicious.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Sprockets would be down for eatting too, but he's busy defeating a pesky throw-rug atm. (Besides, he gets enough meat in his diet from me. >:O)

Re: yummins

[identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com 2003-06-11 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
(Besides, he gets enough meat in his diet from me. >:O)

And from your aquarium!

!!!

[identity profile] serpent-sky.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Argh! If my life wasn't complete turmoil [and I knew I could move down there by January, which is the deadline I set... I love that city, I do, I do....] I would take some, because I also fell in love with your ratties. Of course, this does not help you at all!

Thank you soooooo much for having me over on Sat! :) Much fun, much good times. I suspect I will be in the area more, over the next while. Especially since I am going to throw all my effort into moving to the general Philadelphia area. :)

*HUGS*

[identity profile] hexennacht.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Make sure Chris doesn't steal them and feed him to his snake.

[identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com 2003-06-11 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
He knows better then that.
I won't even let him get a snake that eats rats!

[identity profile] aprilrobin.livejournal.com 2003-06-10 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Um....

HahahHAhahahahhahaa.
I thought you were being sarcastic yesterday.

[identity profile] meetzemonsta.livejournal.com 2003-06-11 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
The perils of being a largely sarcastic person, I would reckon.

c'mon, you know you want a pair of babies!

Re:

[identity profile] aprilrobin.livejournal.com 2003-06-11 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah I suppose, good point.

Oh man, you know how bad I want some ratties but I don't know how good of a mommy I'd be right now. *sigh*