I adopted two rats on April 19th. I named her Carpathia. Sarah named hers Matilda. I come home on April 25th, and hear a plethora of little peepy noises coming from rat cage direction. I dug through the newspaper scraps that made up the rat nest to discover lots of tiny wiggly pink peanuts! I am a grandma! Carpathia was knocked up when I got her and I didn't even know it. She had 15 little babies. Seven days later they are beginning to tell of what colour they will be:






Rats are born with skin covering their eyes and ears. By week two this skin covering disappears. By six weeks you need to separate the girls from the boys because by eight weeks they are able to reproduce. They grow up so quickly! Anyone want a rat baby?