Since my sister got her first rats some months ago I fell in love.
I convinced my husb. to get rats too, and so the process begun.
On December 31th. I contacted a rattery to reserve two baby girls for me.
Four litters were born between 18 and 20 December, of various colours and gene pools.
Since there were many people whom wanted girls I had to wait and see if enough girls had been born for me to take two of them.
Fortunately on January 14th I got some good news. Two Russian blue girls were available for me, and the 17th we could come and meet them. The litter consisted of 7 males and 6 females.
The owner of the rattery had some concerns whether the little rats had functioning bowels, and put them all separately to check their stools. Luckily everything was just fine.
When the rittens gained enough weight (so that they weighed at least 100 grams) we could bring them home.
So after some cuddles we had to wait for two more weeks before the good news came.
The weights as the rattery noted them:
Hera: Juno:
Week 4: 59 gram 72 gram
Week 5: 81 gram 114 gram
Week 6: 112 gram 122 gram
Below some pictures taken by the rattery owner:
Daddy Nexus
Mommy Jolein
Baby's 19-12-2015 (day of birth)
23-12-2015: day 3
27-12-2015: day 8
03-01-2016: day 15 (with mommy)
09-01-2016: Day 21
Juno
We've considered several names and options. We thought it would be neat to name them after Gods or Goddesses. as there are many of them. I didn't want a too complicated name, because one they are used to us handling them, I wish to teach them stuff. Responding to their names would be the first.
We came up with Hera as she is the wife of Zeus. To keep things leveled we went for the Latin version of the 'same' goddess, which is Juno.
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