The sky wept again. It seems every time I leave Dr Sohal's clinic after putting to sleep one of my beautiful rats it rains. Everytime. No difference today. It rained hard for about 10 minutes as I was walking to the subway to go home. The weather must agree with me on how sad it is when my babies have to leave.
Kamali told me this morning, there would be no more rallying, she was tired and waiting for help. I took her in, and was able to gas her and hold her myself. She went very quickly.
She was one of those sweet ones, a lady through and through, unlike her much bigger and more brusque fawn sister Kyrie.
She was born in NB in horrible conditions. With her was her dad Byron (taken in by Linda on Rat Shack forum), her mom Corrie (who stayed with Godmother but was much loved by SQ) and her auntie Nettie, who moved around a bit but ended up back in SQ's care at the end of her life. The adults were snake rats but the snake ignored them. They guy's girlfriend decided to keep them and not let him feed them to the snake. Then as nature proceeds along, Corrie had her first ]litter.
Godmother took them in to foster, having never dealt with a litter before, but did amazingly well. Big thanks to her! We got pictures and updates of our wee ones growing up. :)
Holly put out a big plea for adopters for these wee ones, but for some reason there were no takers in her area. A few of us in Ontario decided if they could get the babies to us we would take them in. Thus began Holly's long journey to rehome these sweethearts. She drove over 13 hours one way to Montreal, stayed overnight and headed back. The rescue in Montreal (Jane of Small Victories) brought them into Ontario and we all met up at Jane's parents farm outside of Toronto.
I met Joanne/jorats for the first time then as she picked up some adoptees from Jane's rescue (Vincent and Pascal I believe?) and 3 PEW boys from Clark's rescue as well.
The babies were adorable!! But one little beige girl picked me. I picked her up and she climbed behind my neck and stayed there. I never put her back with her siblings again, I was so afraid of losing her. She stayed there sleeping for a long time (Joanne kept checking :)). Notamuised took in 2 girls who are now with Nickelrat, Vanessa took in 4 lovely boys (I have no idea how she was able to tell those 3 beige boys apart!!), and I took in Kamali and Kyrie.
Kamali with her friends in the Horde (beige girl towards right)
In her hammie:
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