Oh "darn" back up to 8 huh? I think it's nice that you were fostering, now you've adopted so you'll know he'll ALWAYS have a good life. And he'll love you for it!    

I think Tiny Tim is an adorable name.  Just call him Tiny for short if Tim bothers you so much.

It's so easy to fall in love with fosters.  I'm glad you're keeping this one.  He sounds pretty special.  Besides, 8 isn't really very many (This from a person with 15 and little resistance to a cute face.)  

What color berkshire?

LOL! Yeh, he looks just like that but he's a little bit smaller.  

If you like Gimpy, but still not sure about it, how about:
Gimper
Gimpster
Gimp

Anna-- Probably... did you have not many Berks? I's confused...    

We GOTTA think of a permanent name for him. I can't go around calling him Gimpy. Especially if he turns out to be my next "classroom rat".

"Hi kids, this is Gimpy, the domestic rat..."

LOL

I like the name Gimpy, it reminds me of the movie "Fly Away Home." Kind of a sappy movie, but one of the geese was named Gimpy, for obvious reasons.

I like ckhs' idea, Cruz. That is tooo cool! :afro:
Congrats on your new boy. I promised my husband no more rats... then got my MP rat, Miss Kissy!

LOL....yeah, he NEVER bite me (and I held him EVERY day for 3 weeks) until he was transported and had lots of people around  He isn't such a bad guy but you should have seen him after he bit 3 of us...he had this blood stained chin and I tried for about 15 minutes to get a pic of it but he kept moving  It would have been SO funny to have that image with the name Satan....lol

BTW, my finger is healing quite nicely

Ha ha, well maybe William just dosen't like lots of people. He has an anxiety about it, maybe?    Jeremy could relate, though luckily he dosen't bite anyone.

Anyways, stop hijacking my thread!!  

We introduced him to the rest of my gang, and he got along GREAT with them, though I havn't put him in the cage with them yet. Only playtime.  I want them to get to know eachother very well before putting him in a 3 level cage with that game leg.

We introduced him to Blaze, who is still recovering from his illness alone in his cage, and although the new rat pinned him, they got along great. I just thought it was cute that Blaze, my once bully rat (but not necissarily alpha) got pinned by a gimpy rat!

ANYWAYS- so we also noticed he is missing a small part of his ear- it's at the base, so I hadn't noticed it yet. And he's still got a few big healthy scabs.  They must of been very deep bites, poor thing.

We were thinking about calling him Angel or Lucky or something along that lines. It's more fitting than Parker or Cruz seems to be.  So we're kinda calling him Angel temporarily... it might stick. We want to make sure his name has real meaning, after all he's been thru, and since it looks like he will always have a game leg... he's gonna be special. Well of course he already is....

OH and Anna-  I find that so odd that you only had 2 black berks!  Of the 60 rats I found homes for previous to getting these- I had a WHOLE litter of black berks! It was really hard to get them adopted because they all looked alike-- FlyAway herself took FIVE black Berk girls, and I'm still amazed that she can (usually) tell them apart!  I still HAVE 2 black berk girls that I can't find homes for because I want them to go together, and they look alike.  I dunno.

I just would of thought that with as many rats as you rescued, you'd of had more black berks....

I like gimpy.  Or maybe just The Gimp.