KRL enjoys featuring the many rat rescues around the country. This month we are chatting with Small Angels Rescue in Frederick, Maryland. They not only rescue pet rats, but other small animals as well.
You always meet the skeptics. They’re the ones who wrinkle their noses when you say you rescue rats. “Rats!” they exclaim, “Vermin to be exterminated. I hate their wormy tails.”
KRL enjoys featuring the many rat rescues around the county. This month we are chatting with Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary in German Valley, Illinois who not only takes in pet rats, but other exotic animals as well.
Despite experts at the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) claiming that rat-bite fever is uncommon in the United States, recent events have brought the long misunderstood, four-legged critter front and center under a negative spotlight once again.
The thing with working in animal rescues – you never know where your next case will come from. Typically, you pull animals from shelters or extract them from “a friend of a friend’s” house. Some people have heart-wrenching stories about why they are giving up their pets; others can be barely bothered to answer emails when you try to arrange a pick up. You usually know some kind of history when you meet the curious and shy faces for the first time: pet store rat, classroom project, snake’s rejected meal. But in March 2014, the tireless volunteers at Rattie Ratz (based in the Bay Area, California) were faced with an altogether different scenario.
The first time I met Cherokee–Kee for short–he was lumbering up and down on the top of the cages of his "mates,’ all of whom he would have torn limb from limb if he got the chance.
Tiny Toes Rat Rescue of New Mexico was founded by Chuck and Cherie Jones. We recently had the chance to chat with them about what they do for these wonderful tiny creatures.Tiny Toes Rat Rescue of New Mexico was founded by Chuck and Cherie Jones. We recently had the chance to chat with them about what they do for these wonderful tiny creatures.
My name is Vivaldi and I am a handsome, upstanding member of the rodent community. People say I'm fat, but I'm only 900 grams. Quite sylph-like, really.
I have loved pet rats for many years now, so when I ran across Malcolm at Midnight, even though it was a children's fiction book, I had to pick it up and read it because Malcolm is a rat.
A lot of people don't know how awesome rats are as pets--but Laura Austin, owner and operator of Seventh Heaven Rat Rescue in Indiana not only knows, but she does all she can to save those that need rescue and find them good homes. Find out how they got their start and how they help rats, in this Q and A with Laura.
