TWO new RATTIES!

[Christmas_Hamster]

I love her fur and I will miss it but I do lurve nekkie even partially nekkie ratties! So I will def. take pics!! C=

=D

[luckies4me]

I really hope you are doing your quarantine for your new rats in a seperate home. Most rats diseases are spread through formites in the air, meaning that even if the new rats are in a seperate room they can still transmit disease. All new rats should always be kept in a seperate home, away from other rodents for at least two weeks, 6 weeks to be safe. Rat disease spreads fairly easy, and even if kept in a seperate home care must be taken to change clothes/wash hands/shower before touching or coming in contact with other rats. Particles of disease can also be carried in your nose, and all it takes is one little sneeze to spread disease. This is why people always wonder how their rats get sick if they are the only rat in the home...but they take the rat into petstores with them.

Also, for clarifications sake, there are many different types of rex genes out there. Double rex (mating two rexes together which causes the guard hairs to be very brittle, causing them to fall out) and patchwork rexes are two very different genes. Most double rexes are not patchworks. Many people cannot even tell a bad hairless from a double rex. The way to know? Double rexes hair long curly whiskers, whereas a true hairless has almost no whiskers at all, or they are very close to the muzzle, and very tightly curled.

I almost forgot!!! I just wanted to say that they are both awfully cute. Especially the hooded one.