What is one excatly, is just a plain old white rat?

I was at work and saw an ad for one free to good home and was just curouis as to what one was.

Generally white fur red eyes

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Akai-Chan

Thanks I was just confused cuz I would have thought they would have just put white rat but when i read albino I was thinking is it a rare type of rat

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Dog-Sophie

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Nah I;m pretty suire albino is just plain red eyed white

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Akai-Chan

Alright cool.

well I hope he/she gets a nice new home. Id take her/him on if I had the money and if I was allowed to have pets that have to do with shaving and long rat tails

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Dog-Sophie

10 Gallon tank - 2 fantail goldfish.

Rest in Peace Kira (cat)2011

Not very rare at all, I'm afraid: most laboratory rats are albino.

More commonly known as Pink-eyed White, [PEW], because there's more than one way to get a white rat with pink eyes.... One of course is the genuine albino gene, but very often combinations of other colour genes can give you a rat which is white with pink eyes, a 'fake' albino if you like.

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Merlin your gonna lose me !! lol

So someone could put a black and brown rat togeather and if they ended up with a white rat it wouldnt be genuine as the parents were albino?

do i have it

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Dog-Sophie

10 Gallon tank - 2 fantail goldfish.

Rest in Peace Kira (cat)2011

If the parents both carried the albino gene it is certainly possibly, if they just had a recessive white gene and a recessive pink eye gene I think it would be a fake albino... I;m not too sure on the genetics of it, MM is better at genetics than me

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Akai-Chan

Almost there It depends on what other colours the parents carried. If they both carried the albino gene, then yes, the white kits would most likely be genuine albino.

But let's just say, for an example, they both also carried the gene for Siamese (ivory coat, red eyes, brown on nose, ears feet & tail) and a gene for Champagne (pink eyes, very pale beige coat colour). Some of the 'white' babies could be Champagne-pointed Siamese... the colour on the nose, ears feet etc would be soooo pale as to be invisible, and the rat would look like an albino.

We have a variety in the UK here called Roan (aka Husky). They are born a solid colour with white markings but gradually get more & more white hairs in their coats as they age, often ending up looking like a black-eyed white. One well known pet store chain here has been selling Champagne Roans. These silver out to white as well, and as their base colour (Champagne) is a pink-eyed colour, they look just like pink-eyed whites/albinos when older.

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So someone (like me for example) who didnt have a clue (until u explained) could think they have a albino but really they could a "fake" one unless other wise stated.

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Dog-Sophie

10 Gallon tank - 2 fantail goldfish.

Rest in Peace Kira (cat)2011