"how to breed pet rats"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keyykd12cnE&NR=1


WHAT AN IDIOT, oh my gosh. I am just laughing at this lady.

hard to tell sexes before 6wks? seperate at 6wks? cant momma get prego again within days she gives birth..not 6wks later?

this lady is.... 

Wow...we should seriously start writing letters. This lady is misinforming people. Don't try to teach things to people when you don't know very much about them yourself... 

I too can't believe how she just let that momma rat into the cage with that fully intact male!!!! I left an angry comment under someone who thought seeing the momma climb in the males cage was 'cute'. UGH 

It won't let me watch them.  It told me to update and I did.  Don't know why.  It lets me watch other youtube videos.

I just wrote a letter...I wish I'd seen what you saw undergunfire, so I could have addressed that too...

if you go to their main website there is a contact form at the bottom.. i left a note there.

was anyone else tempted to flag them as animal abuse?  improper care might as well be abuse.


oh i found the actual page for all of these on expert village.. this is what it had to say about this woman:

"
About the Expert

Laura Fitzgerald has been an animal lover her entire life. Having her first pet rat at the age of 5 (after rescuing it from the snake food chain). Growing up on a 200 acre horse farm in New Jersey, Laura raised many pet rats, even wild barn rats as pets. After graduating High School Laura attended Sussex County Vo-Tech and received her license as an animal health technician and worked as a veterinarian assistant for 5 years. Laura moved to Florida in 1988 and worked for a Vet that specialized in exotic and small animals for 6 years. Laura later opened her own Exotic animal business which she currently still operates."

 

I guess we can't expect everyone to know what their doing... hopefully no one will listen to the nonsense she is talking about.

How can this lady be so in the dark about rat care?!!!  Did she not do any research?!!!  Does she live under a rock or something!!!  Let's encourage her to come over here to goosemoose for the sake of those rats in her care.

No...you can't. And like Happy-RAT said, you'd be surprised on how much more you have to learn. I'm not as mad that she doesn't know what she's doing, I'm really mad that she's acting like an "expert", and so uneducated people are going to think that she knows what she's talking about, and they're going to go by that information when taking care of their own rats. And if she really cared about the welfare of rats, she definitely wouldn't be ENCOURAGING people to breed them! 

Where are people sending letters/e-mails to? I'd like to write one...

Yes, I'm sure she'll feel quite welcome here, after being called a moron and an idiot.

I can understand people's frustration.  Some of the statements made in those videos are facepalm inducing, but this woman needs to be educated, not insulted.   

If she thinks that "large cage" is all that, then she obviously hasn't kept up in the rat world. She probably researched years ago and never bothered to update herself, so she thinks her "old ways" are correct?

Regardless, these videos still need to be taken down. Maybe someone on here can make new videos with CORRECT information, and submit them?