My rat has a poo corner in his cage so weve put a big dish ther that he uses to go in, makes life alot easyer when we clean him out and he has a wee corner, when his out he dont do no toilets so he's pretty good.

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I've just read Kristen Bessants message in the forum from last month (14/03/08). It appears you have the sister of my male. it's nice to find out what happened to one of his sisters. I got Odo in December last year when the babies were all 5 weeks old. he took a bite out of my finger the day i went to get him and i still took him home. He's very handlable although still a little skittish. He lives in a indoor bird avairy with my female who after reading a lot of the postings i must have been spoilt with because she is absolutly bomb proof.

hi there i have just discovered this forum and think its great to read so many comments and experiences with keeping these wonderful creatures. I've kept and bred fancy rats for 16 years and came accross my first Gambian in June last year in the form of Ziyal my female and her sister in an exotic pet shop near by after rushing home to do my research and decide if i could offer all they needed Ziyal was home with me 2 hrs later. My male Odo joined the family in Dec last year. I have to say i must have been spoilt with my two as far as handling is concerned because both are extremely handlable in Ziyals case she is bomb proof any one can handle her although everyone who meets her say they can see who she's attached to. Odo still gets jumpy with sights or sounds he's not sure of but he is a one person rat. Ziyal was hand reared and Odo was handled from 10 days onwards although more regularly once i had him. Mine don't get the option to be scared of handling. Odo started off with a fake hand (one of those from a joke shop) this way he could get used to a hand coming near him and touching him without me getting the pain for doing so. once he didn't flinch with that i then introduced my own hand. This was done with in a couple of days. Now its just my hand only. He did seem to take a step back during puberty for a couple of weeks but it must have been the testosterone as he's calmed right down since.
I will be looking for advise with breeding the gambians specifically whether to hand rear or just handle. Although i haven't found alot of info on this subject although its a mixed subject with people i've spoken to. I mainly want to breed because i feel i have been so lucky with Zee and because they are so expensive to buy i would like to be able to keep a baby and Zee's line going. Any feed back from anyone with this experience would be appreciated.

Kindest regards to everyone

please can somebody help me find sum1 selling pouched rats????

i live in the north east of england and iv practically tried everywher

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It is not easy to find breeders of these animals and the only one's i know are located in the south. However as mentioned in a reply i put in a thread you have also posted in with hilary i am hopeing to breed from my pair and if you're prepared to wait i am more than happy to give you my contact details and keep you up dated that way you know you're getting one from a responsible breeder while using the time doing your research into their up keep and that way i know i'm selling to a responsible protential owner. Please note there will be terms and conditions as i don't want the young or any future young falling into the hands of a growing trade. I'm breeding from my girl because of her temperament as she is extremely friendly to the extent i can use her for attractions and talks about the species so i want to make sure i stand a good chance of getting one with a similar temperament.
As for the distance i have family up north so i may be able to arrange bringing one up if you can't travel down south.

Hi there, I can see you are from Wiltshire..So am I!
I have a little girl GPR (well not so little) and I am awaiting my little boy in 2 weeks time, Is it just the 2 you have?
They are lovely aren't they!
Gem

Hi, sorry to here you are finding it difficult to find any of these lovely creatures, I looked around for about a week & managed to find 2 breeders, but I think It was just the case of good timing as they both had litters that were pretty much ready, altho I am down south aswell and so were the breeders that I got mine from.
Gem

It is just the 2 i have. where did you get yours from. There a good chance that the girls are related as i only know of 2 breeders in this area as well i also know that the person who had my girls parents has since sold them on. I have to say i have been absolutely spoilt with my girl. The boy took me 2-3 months to find it seems there's not as many boys out there as girls.
Where's your boy coming from?

tht sounds brilliant! how much would you be selling them for coz my mum doesnt want to pay too much coz we dnt have a lot of money lol
about the terms and conditions tht is fine! im not looking into breeding them i just want some and dnt worry ill look after them, iv had animals all my life and im looking into becoming an rspca cruelty officer

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Hi,

My boy is coming from Southampton, he has 2 boys and 4 girls but 1 of the boys was already reserved, they are only 4 wks at mo, he's letting me have my boy at 7wks.
My girl orginally came from Kent, but I picked her up from Romsey so It was quite handy I didn't have to travel too far, they had 3 girls left, I have named her Ronnie and she is 11wks right now, she doesn't seemed too frightened of anything, but not too keen on me touching her at mo, but I'm taking it slowely and not rushing her.
While I was searching through the net I have only come across 2 breeders, which is why I got 1 from each 1, but the breeder in Southampton new of another breeder but he didn't have a litter.