kingrattus I am sorry your mom did that but your post irritates me. You were breeding rats? For what, feeders? If not feeders, what pets? Rats are NOT breeding stock to be bred whenever someone wants babies etc. they are animals and should be treated with respect. They are not "stock" and every one of my breeders is a pet way before a breeder, some breeders I don't even breed!
It is very unhealthy for rats to just have babies over and over again, and that's what it sounds like your rats were doing.
Perhaps you should report your mother to the Humane Society. How did your rats die? Did she literally kill them by hurting them or by not feeding them? If you knew she did that to your kitten why would you leave animals in her care?
When I was younger I rescued 5 kittens in Easter, who I found squished between a fence and some small concrete area, I carried all of them home by myself. They were the cutest little kittens. Well one day, my moms bf killed them, brutally flinging them up against our patio wall, blood was everywhere. He kicked them so bad their eyeballs were out! Luckily, one of our kittens Blacky was hiding behind the stove and because of that he lived, and we still have him today. That was when I was in 5th grade, he is an old kitty but still kicking. This man also stabbed our cockatiel in the stomach killing him. Then when my mom FINALLY left him, when I was in the 8th grade, he broke into our house and let all of our cockatiels free. Years of work went into our tiels, we had them all since they were hatched! We were fortunate to find two of the babies outside on our lawn, but the other flew away or were probably caught by a cat or something terrible. These were my moms birds and she loved them so much. She cried for days after that. Those were our birds.
Well want to hear another horror story? When I was pregnant with Dylan I had some pet ratties, on same sex cages and they were my loves. I also had three bunnies, a fawn rex, a Holland Lop and a mini lop. I also had two mice. These animals were my PRIDE AND JOY! I was so ill during my pregnancy I was hospitalized for two weeks for hyperemesis and lived off an IV. During that time I could not go near the animals because I was sick and would throw up everytime I was near them. Dan said he would take care of them. They were moved to the garage (a nice one with ac and heater mind you) so I could breathe easier at home. Everyday I would ask Dan if he fed the animals and layed with them etc. Everyday he said yes. One day after feeling I could finally manage to go touch them, I walked into the garage and most of them were dead!
I lost all bunnies, 6 of my rats, both mice and my hedgehog who was given to me on my 18th bd. Speedy the first. I don't know how some people can be this way, but he just didn't understand the respionsibility and knew nothing about animals. On that same day I had my ultrasound appointment in which I had to drink tons of water and was so fricking pissed because I couldn't pee, I got stung by a bee, the first sting of the season mind you, then found out a friend of mine passed away. The same week I caught Dan with porn and he left me, WHILE I was pregnant! It was really the worst week of my life!
But in Dans defense he now understand completely the knowledge, care, love and responsibility to take care of animals and he is crazy about the cats. We have since worked out of problems and I would trust him with anything now........he knows anyway if he ever did something like that again I wouldn't tolerate it. He has taken animal husbandry classes etc. It's really amazing that a lot of people just don't understand how to care for an animals and really sincerely think you can only feed and water it every five days and it will stay healthy. It's very sad.
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