Hello all I'm new to this forum, but I hope to get to know it better!

I was wondering if there was anyone around who would like to chat about rats? I recently lost my four year old blue rat, Edmund, to a complicated respitory infection.

Anyway, I really miss him and I would love to swap rat stories with any other owners out there!

I'd really like to hear from anyone who knows about rat breeders. I got my last rat at the pet store and the vet told me that he'd probably had the affection (in a subacute form) since I got him because pet stores tend to have low quality rats (most of them end up as snake food. Which I fully understand I have a snake myself, but he only eats albino lab mice). So I was thinking about going to a breeder, but how do I find one? Somehow I doubt that looking up "Rat" in the Yellow Pages is going to work!

Anyway, I'd love to hear from any rat fanciers.

Cheers,
Tigeress