Gingerbread Rats

Champagne coloured rat called Crème Brûlèe stares into the camera while sitting on a person's hand.

Gingerbread Crème Brûlèe is judging you.
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2 5 weeks old kittens lay asleep in a cage

Why are they so ridiculous though?
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5 weeks old chocolate rat kitten being held up to the camera.

Why does she look like she's smiling though? 🥹
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Photo showing side by side father and daughter lilac rats being held up to the camera.

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I keep seeing far too many "cute" pet rats that are obese. Pets are not cute when they are obese. It's unhealthy and can drastically affect lifespan. Stop feeding into the chonky = cute lie and pay attention to your pet.

Trouble? Don't know what you mean, they are obviously the most angelic children 🤣

Give it a week or two 🤣

Lams is a champagne rat buried under all of her kittens that she's nursing.

Mum life.
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Champagne dumbo doe, 12 days old, held up to the camera.

12 days old.
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Which is funny because her best self in the cage is being a little crackhead and chewing all the things 🤣

Long bois!

So cute! My rats would eat this in 3 minutes!

My mink keeper doe, Gingerbread Macaron took Best Self at LSC show on Saturday. Well done, Maca.
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Variety comparison pic showing a mink doe on the left and a lavender buck on the right.

There are so many varieties of rats, some colours can appear similar if you don't see them often. Here's an example of what a UK mink looks like compared to Lavender.
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I don't feel like she's a waffle with her personality. However, if you don't mind, I may steal Waffle for my next Champagne doe I need a name for because it is very cute.

It's never lupus 🤣

Thank you for the suggestion but I fear in the English language this might get confused with another word.

A female lilac rat being held up to the camera.

What do I name her? Food and lilac theme only. Halp. Her prefix will obvs be Gingerbread.
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17 day old lilac doe held in hand.

Tiny lilac baby girl. 17 days old.
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Colour palette showing 6 baby rat kittens in black, chocolate, mink, lavender and lilac.

10 day old colour palette.
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9 days old baby rat being held in a hand.

9 days old.
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Lucky. What a difference a few months make. #ratsofbluesky

Update: He's a lilac! I'm very excited by this. Introducing Gingerbread Lucky Charm. Updated pics coming later.
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Black rat, Anise, on a litter.

Anise has had her second and final litter, a nice number of 6. I'm very hopeful for this litter and it could really help build one of my lines.
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I don't recommend moving house. What a stress and financial black hole, especially when you have to move 50 rats and break 2 phones too. I need a break.

Photo of a rat being held up, looking at the camera, showing moult marks resembling eyebrows.

I love it when rats moult and they get eyebrows.
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A rat meme that says "Me: At least my rat loves me, My rat: shows picture of a rat peeking round the door with a middle finger raised."

Credit to whoever made this, I didn't see a credit elsewhere. My house atm.
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I'm so sorry.

They're looking good. Lovely milk bands!

Apparently the rats I breed want to be their own pied pipers now.