Well said

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EVery rescue is entitled to an opinion and to make a decision, i think its a little unfair to say they will now end up as feeders.

I Mainly deal with ferrets but through rumours and personall conflicts there are rescues who would not rehome to me, dosnt mean im a bad owner like it dosnt mean akai chan is a bad owner but if i was rehoming ferrets i personally wouldnt rehome that distance anyway without actually going in person to do a home check, ive not heard any of these rumours that may be going round but if someone wanted a ferret and id heard stuff then id be erring on the side of caution to.

Its all got way out of hand now and is turning into a witch hunt, i have every confidence the rats will find happy homes speculating on them becoming food dosnt help anything.

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I didn't start the `argument`, i said no to somebody in a private message, and they felt the need to try and aggravate me on a public forum.

I don't care if 99% of the forum agrees with Akai chan, that doesn't mean anything to me, as I'm here to try and home rats which come into rescue, and not to win a popularity contest...and not to be on the receiving end of a witch-hunt...

I don't treat anybody differently, i treat people the same, and everybody applies the same, whether they have owned rats for 20 years, or 20 minutes, i don't care, i just go off the level of care they can provide., and i don't take chances.

I dont care about rumours, i care about what people say themselves, and if people say something which makes me worry, i look further, and decide that way.

Its not up to me to lower my standards so 1 person can adopt some rats, its up to them to meet MY standards i set out, a basic level of care and security.
This has worked very well for a few years now, and i wont home to somebody that i don't feel is right.

No point saying `oh shes a great owner` `shes well good` etc, as it doesn't matter, it was already sorted and decided before you all stepped in, at least have the grace to accept it and move on.

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I have to agree with this. very good post.

How can anyone cut tails off rats thats just sick. What reason could they have for doing so a horrbile act. Poor rats not good start to their lives but I am sure Laura will find good loving homes for them all.

All I am going to say about breeders is this, their is good & bad breeders but are history with any animals we have had from a breeders have had some sort of problems so we do not bother with breeders now. I am not just talking of rodent breeders here but also reptile breeders. We rather rescue our animals as least that way we are helping out in some small way & we know any donations we give to rescues is going to help more animals in need.

Just before anyone starts to think about attacking us over we don't know what we are talking about I have been keeping all kinds of animals from the age of 7 & Carol is the same, were both 44 now so many years of experience dealing with breeders, pets shops & people selling animals through private ads. We have seen the bad & the good.

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The guy we rescued these babies off was a 'typical lad', and probably thought he could 'modify' some rats, or experiment or something like that with absolutely no care into their welfare. He didn't care that they were ill and in pain, I think he just saw them as objects tbh, but he has been reported to the RSPCA now so I hope something is done about him.

Can I add a comment here & I am not defending anyone here. At the end of the day its is up to Spoiled Rat who she rehomes her rats out, she know who is best for them so stop attacking her. I do beleive read this post that spoiled rat as very good reasons for refusing this person to rehome some of these rats. We have only been on this site a few days & have notice certain people on here have nothing better to do then up from post to post making stupid comments that really is nothing to do with the post in question. Where are the people in charge of the site & why are they not stopping this!

Ian & Carol

If the person rehoming these rats doesn't feel right about rehoming any of these rats to any particular person then that is their right.
Move on

That's true but spoiled rat has been nasty about Red.
Red is a friend of mine and i know she's a perfect rat owner, couldn't fault her in anyway.
She's highly knowledgeable and caring. She treats every rat like their her babies.
I would imagine that Red is pretty upset by this and i feel that she is owed an apology.

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Actually if you go back you will see that Red brought the problem with her homing them into the thread in the first place. The OP had pmed her and rightly so, so that this thread could be kept for rehoming these rats and not for personal attacks.
If Red has a problem then she should conduct her arguement via pm with OP .