Hamsters

Can you get multi-coloured rats? I know you can get black, white, and brown, but how about piebald and skewbald? Ginger?
 
Yes - Rats come in piebald and skewbald - though i dont know what the "proper" names would be for it ( if not pie and Skew!!)

I always wanted a champagne one - its a kind of creamy goldy colour - they are gorgeous. Mine were Brown ( Fletch - after Steve Fletcher) White ( McGorry - after Brian McGorry) and Black with a white tummy ( Morris - after Mark Morris - all 3 were AFC Bournemouth players at the time!)
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jan 3 2007, 06:33 PM
Can you get multi-coloured rats? I know you can get black, white, and brown, but how about piebald and skewbald? Ginger?
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Daisys new boys are Siamese hooded and a black hooded. I'll have to get a better photo of Bert, the black one but you can see he's got white on his back. His belly is completely white.

Bert
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Ben, a pink eyed Siamese hooded
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Ben, Billy and Bob in a three-in-a-bed shocker!
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Bet your husband is wondering, Griffin, if the cats are going to solve the rat problem, or vice versa :o
 
Originally posted by Headstrong@Jan 3 2007, 07:39 PM
Bet your husband is wondering, Griffin, if the cats are going to solve the rat problem, or vice versa :o
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:lol: Some of the cats have ignored them, others have been allowed to have a sniff of the cage and have sat in awe while the rats bounce around. None of the cats are left alone in the room with the cage so we should be ok :D
 
Originally posted by trudij@Jan 3 2007, 07:55 PM
I seem to remember my cat having a go at the hamster cage....



ONCE !!


The hamster won quite decicively!!
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nasty little chompers on hamsters, and they bite damn quickly and damn hard
 
Originally posted by trudij@Jan 3 2007, 08:30 PM
I always wanted a champagne one - its a kind of creamy goldy colour - they are gorgeous. Mine were Brown ( Fletch - after Steve Fletcher) White ( McGorry - after Brian McGorry) and Black with a white tummy ( Morris - after Mark Morris - all 3 were AFC Bournemouth players at the time!)
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Heh that takes me back. Brian McGorry used to play for Weymouth when I went out there to watch them as a teenager. My mum used to fancy him and my friends used to tease me that he was my father :shy:

The rats I have left now are just pretty common black and white/grey and white varieties but the two that died were "blue" rats, which - as in the British Blue shorthair cat, is actually dark grey. They were very pretty.
 
Oops, sorry, Kathy (and Ginge!)... senior moment again. :(

Those are some darn fine-looking rodents, Griffin! I only had white mice, and then they had white mice, who had white mice... and then the cat had white mice! I loved my mice (this was in the pre-pony owning years), but after the little 'beginner' mice grew to a pack of 24, my parents decided perhaps the pony was the cheaper option! I must say, all rodents are really pleasant. I think voles, with their flexi-noses, are particularly cute, but I don't think I know of any kept as pets.
 
My cats have dropped huge hints that they too would appreciate voles as pets, however they haven't quite mastered the art of bringing the little creatures home alive!
 
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