Publius & Co.

Oooops.

My bad...I let this thing get a little empty. Sorry.

The gf and I did all our travelling on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We went 413.5 miles, for just under nine hours (including stops)...to get more rats from a friend of ours in Nazareth, PA.

Imagine that.

First, our new boy, Oliver, a standard-coat beige hooded:

Oliver was the alpha rat amongst the boys, up until early September when we adopted four of his brothers. Sadly, he began to bully the only remaining boy our friend had and she seperated him out. She rescued another boy (who was about five days old at the time!) who has become good friends with the other rat in Pennsylvania, and Oliver was an alone rat. Our friend hoped he could be reunited with his brothers, and it seemed to go well at first...

...but Mr. Ratburn decided he didn't like Oliver, and began to bully him. Blood was drawn (from both of those boys) in some subsequent fights, and Oliver is now living by himself, again. We have hopes to try to intro him to our older rats, but as they're all over two, they are in the twilight of their years.

Introductions of the new girls to some of our old girls. Until early September, these girls were all living together, and it seems they remembered each other. There were very few squabbles during the introductions, and they're all getting along very well. At one time, all of the girls were all piled into the same hammock in their new cage! From left to right, they are Roo (double-rex), Kanga (hairless dumbo), Zoe (standard-coat hooded), and old girl Ohana (standard coat agouti berkshire) is jumping into the box, looking for food.

Another picture, taken during intro's. This is Roo getting her butt sniffed by Ohana, and Kanga walking by like she sees not-tink!

Posted by Victor at Noviembre 28, 2004 04:33 PM