hi all, i just got a phone call from my friend who works at VSR ( the emergency hospital) she new i was looking for a new rat....someone dumped a baby rat there (five weeks), and one of her co-workers is going to feed it to her snake if no one wants her ....however i JUST got a new baby who is at home and has a respiratory infection, and i have my rats here so i cannot take her!!!!  could anyone here take her? i have till midnight when my friend get off from work!!!! she cannot take her because she also has rats and has not where to keep her eather...if you can help please respond


*update*
i picked her up yesterday, and dropped her off at Indgos, she is going to keep her for a few weeks, however after meeting this rattie she was quickly hypnotized by this rats extream cuteness and is considering keeping her, if she doesn't i most likely will, if i get my sick rattie all straightened out
 i thought you guys might want to see some pics of the little girl you helped to save...thanks again to everyone who tried to helped, i was very impressed with the quick responses and help i got...Indigo has been calling her Boo

i know...i am really thinking of taking her for the night and bring her home....the other baby has been on anitobics for a few days...i could keep her in another room, it better then her  getting eaten...i couldn't keep her tho, i have no room.

she is five weeks old, but was dropped off with a large male, i think they were dropped off specifically for the girl to feed them to her snake..so i guess she could be pregnant, unfortunately the girl has decided that she will defiantly feed the male to her snake..but since i was looking for a rat they decided to call and see if i wanted the girl...

God, I don't know if I can take a female + babies if she is pregnant. Someone would have to have an emergency spay done before she comes to me. I cannot take in 12 or more babies.
Edit- I will of course pay for the spay but I don't want to wait until the babies are formed and have an abortion done to kill them. Figuring the male just mates the female tonight or yesterday (depending how long they were together) the babies haven't developed any I don't think. But yes, she will need to be spayed before coming to me at my expense.
Edir2- I still don't trust the situation. If the person is irresponsible enough to just drop them off then who knows, maybe they were kept together and then brought to the office in seperate containers? My mind is a bit more at ease but I would still like her spayed ust in case unless you can get in touch with the person and confirm the female was NEVER in with the male.

ok here is the plan....i am picking on Friday before i go to work, i work at the animal hospital of pittsford, hopefully there will be someone picking her up to take her to a rescue, or i will be taking her there after work,  but if that falls through, is there anyone else who can take her? they can pick her up from the animal hospital anytime on Friday, i work from 8am till 6pm, or if its not too far(i am a terrible driver) i could drop her off somewhere.

If all of those plans fall through I could take her and hold onto her for a while, I have a few friends who were interested in getting a rat and maybe they'd like her. I'm in Rochester, also.

DJM- Melina already has arranged for a transport to her where she will be quarentined and then she will come to me. I don't think a spay will need to be done.. it'll make things more chaotic. I just hope she is not pregnant. Did the plan for her to go to the nature center and then to Heather fall through? I will take her.

Heather who used to live in Rochester is going to pick her up I thought. Did she not contact you yet? She only lives 20 minutes from Melina and Melina is going to hold her for me (she'll be in q-tine there too since my dad's house is 40 minutes away and I prefer to have her with a fellow rat lover).

Heather is in Indiana. It was probably her that called. Talk to Melina about it, she'll know more than me since she talks to Heather.

Melina = TheChicagoCrew

Ok everything needs to get straightened out before this turns into a HUGE mess .

 I knew of someone in Indiana who used to live in Rochester, so I talked to her to see if she knew of anyone that could take the girl. She said she'd contact the nature center in Rochester to see if they could take her in for awhile. *I* said that I could take her and quarantine her for Heather in MO *IF* transport could be worked out this way. HOWEVER I have never said that transport was already worked out. To my knowledge, no one is going to Rochester and back to deliver this rat. HOWEVER considering there are some people closer to Rochester interested in this rat, perhaps something could be worked out with them. I highly doubt a transport can be worked out to get this rat 8 hours west of Rochester. I said IF we could work it out, we could Q her for Heather in MO. 

 Did I make that clear enough this time?

 Ok now the current situation is that the Nature Center can hold onto the rat for a few weeks as long as a temporary cage and bottle is provided. They already have rat food on hand from what I'm being told. That gives you a few weeks to find an appropriate home or foster person for her, such as Indigo or SugarLovesRats.

-Melina

on a side note, baby rats are born with a not fully open vagina - and for most rats, it doesnt open til after 5 weeks old. so its highly unlikely that a female rat of that age would be impregnated, especially since they havent reached full puberty then.