The Moncton Rat Train of 2008
Back in May 2008 we discovered a man/rescue in Moncton, New Brunswick was unable to stop taking in rats and was completely overwhelmed. There was over 100 rats but there wasn’t enough care for all of them. The man was unable to physically clean cages due to his health so the majority of work fell to his young daughter and an older friend (Alex) who posted an S.O.S. to adopt out these rats and fast!
The rats were kept in cages too small for them, too many rats in a cage, not clean conditions, fed whatever they could afford, and most of them had no out time at all. The Specials got fed too much and became obese with no exercise. There was extremely limited vet care and it became overwhelming for all involved.
These rats Alex is holding are all girls...they were obese Specials (my Pea is the beige back rearing up in the middle...she arrived at 615 grams and was a smaller girl that was round and lumpy)
Holly, a wonderful woman involved in rat rescue, decided we needed to make a Rat Train to Ontario as there just wasn’t enough good homes that weren’t already full locally. She drove to Moncton, New Brunswick from Halifax, Nova Scotia three times for this effort. Working with Alex and Clark, the owner of the rescue, Holly took pictures of the rats available for adoption and compiled a brief description of each. Holly posted the pictures and descriptions of 100 rats and two degus on the internet. She later updated this as people were approved for adoption.
Then we created an adoption application and started screening adopters. It sounds really easy but it is not! For most of us with full-time jobs or in school, all of the work had to be done in the mornings and at night…MANY emails to answer, applications to go over, and plans to make. I soon assumed all of the responsibility and work for screening adopters.
We needed enough adopters in Ontario to even consider a rat train (transport, not an actual choo choo train LOL). The Ratshack, jorats, moderators and members and some members on Goosemoose all played important roles .... helping with and supporting the raffle, making donations, volunteering time and ideas, spreading the word and adopting rats.
Once we had an application process set up, we had to figure out the next issues, like HOW we were going to get them there, and where would each leg of the train/transporter be able to go to and from, then arrange timing and oops…forgot about funds for the Transport and any medical bills needed…
It was also decided to use the funds donated to provide each adopter who wanted one with a copy of The “Rat Health Care” book. The rats had been through so much in their short lives that we wanted to ensure they received the best possible new start. Holly took care of the book ordering and distribution.
A Raffle was started on behalf of these efforts. To be honest the Raffle was the hardest part for me, very demanding, and there’s a lot of rules to raffles that have to be followed, that of course we didn’t know about LOL. We were very lucky to have so many talented people donate prizes for the Raffle.
Vansessa was in charge of donations and all funds. She kept the books and reimbursed people for expenses incurred in this rescue effort. Vanessa fulfilled this responsibility from the time we decided to undertake this operation until all receipts were received and funds paid out several months after the actual rat train.
The transport was finally arranged into 3 legs (Clark drove from Moncton to Montreal (Jane/smallvic’s place to stay over) and there it split into Vanessa taking approximately 75 rats from Montreal to the Markham meet up (a doggy daycare facility’s space was donated by Moon, one of the moderators of the Rat Shack) after that individual transports to different parts of Ontario met up there to take home their Train rats and deliver others on the way. Some had to foster a few days until the new owners could pick up 
Also in Montreal, Jane held onto the U.S. bound rats that Keltikka & Amanda (NYDaisy) picked up and helped distribute to their new homes… NYDaisy was my U.S, Adoption Coordinator and she was invaluable.
Here are pics from the Meetup on June 20, 2008
Vanessa’s car packed with cages!
This was a long hard trip for Vanessa and the rats. She had to keep stopping to move cages around and get the air flowing in between. The rats were clearly overheating but they had to endure this in order to get to their homes. We took all the cages out and placed them in a cool part of the office where Moon works. (which by the way was the best thing she could have done, donate her time and area for this to all come together, it was in a quiet and private area. She even put up print outs of the adoptions and new adopters/adoptees up for faster identification.)
Here we have the cages with Moon, myself, Mamarat and Nickelrat:
We quickly got to work, watering the rats and trying to hook up extra waterbottles to the cages. We also had to "air" out some rats as well, they were so hot and some were listless. We were worried about Vanessa and Mamarat's bigger groups, but it seems all they needed was a cuddle, and a reminder that they were going somewhere great. They perked up really fast.
Finding cages and carriers were another huge concern for us. We had to find small enough enclosures so they could all fit in the cars. We received many cage donations but even with that, many cages had to be divided into two in order to accommodate more rats.
Jorats getting the water bottles:
Mamarat and Nickelrat watering the rats:
Alicemcmallis, myself and Moon putting Revolution on all the newcomers
Moon holding some of Rat.charmers sweet PEW girls
Peeking out!
All the cars lining up to receive their precious cargo.
Jorats, and Mamarats new ratties all packed up to go home 
and a few days later…Amanda and Keltikka’s cars all packed up with their little inmates in Montreal in preparation to crossing the border and taking these lucky little rats to their new homes.
Keltikka had 13 cages/carriers
Not sure how many Amanda had!
And this is the final result of our efforts.
The following is an organized adopted list of the rat train adoptables for the canadian rescue effort.
Note: The liverpool babies were rescued by Holly along with other members of their family from a tank in a shed and were included in this rat train.
adopted by Loraine Speck Canada, Ontario
1. Boy 3 (new cage) - black berk- 5 to 6 months old, black berk with stunning markings, friendly, always looking for attention
2. Boy 8 (new cage) - black hoodie - 4-5 mo, hyper, happy, loves attention, sweet
3. Boy 5 (cage 9)
4. Boy 7 (cage 9)
adopted by Caleb USA, PA
1. Boy 2 (new cage) - beige hoodie - 4-5 mo, hyper, happy, loves attention, sweet
2. Boy 3 (new cage) - beige berk - 4-5 mo, hyper, happy, loves attention, sweet
adopted by Keltikka USA, New York
1. Ianto (cage 2)
2. Owen (cage 2)
3. Jack (in foster)
adopted by Vanessa Canada
1. Bruce (cage 3) - black self - 10 mo, sweet, outgoing
2. Paul (cage 3) - black self - 10 mo, sweet, outgoing
3. Blaze (cage 3) - black self - 10 mo, sweet, outgoing
4. Nicko (cage 11)
5. Adrian (cage 11)
6. Steve (cage 11)
7. Dave (cage 11)
8. Janick (cage 11)
adopted by Cityratt Canada, Ontario
1. Cap'n(cage 4)
2. Smee (cage 4)
adopted by Sara/Odd1out Canada, Ontario
1. Boy 1 (cage 4)
2. Boy 2 (cage 4)
3. Boy 3 (cage 4)
adopted by Jorats Canada, Ontario
1.Jasper (cage 5)
2. Rufus (cage 5)
3. Remi (neutered boy) (cage 20)
4. Calia (girl) (cage 20)
adopted by mamarat Canada, Ontario
1/2/3/4. Hawkeye, Marcus,Walter and Ross- 4 dumbos (Cage 21)
5. Forest (cage 13)
6. Moose (cage 13)
7. Levi (cage 13)
8. James (cage 13) 9. Wyatt (cage 13)
adopted by Donna-Lynne (skinnyhippiechick) Canada, Ontario
1. King Beanbag II (cage 6)
2. Sprite (cage 6)
3. Lucretius (Luc/Luke for short(cage 6)
4. Nietzsche (cage 6)
adopted by Jennifer (ohrats27) USA, New York
1. Monty - Dad
2. Gyro - Beige hooded son
3. Dash - Beige son
4. Jacob (cage 6) - black hoodie, 7 weeks old
5. Dave (cage 6) - himilayan - 7 weeks old
6. Zach (cage 6) - approx 7 weeks old, beige turning siamese
adopted by Gina, PiedPiper Canada, Ontario
1. Mokka (cage 6)
2. Zen (cage 6)
3. Keemun (liverpool babies)
4. Rooibas (liverpool babies)
adopted by Lindy/lj Canada, Ontario
1. Crabbe (cage 6)
2. Goyle (cage 6)
3. Remi (cage 7)
4. Neublus (cage 8 )
5. Minky (cage 10)
6. Neville (cage 16)
adopted by Randy Canada, Ontario
1. Gimli (cage 9)
2. Tobias (cage 9)
adopted by Laura (Bruxxy) Canada, Ontario
1. Oliver (cage 9)
2. Otis (cage 9)
adopted by Amanda (NYDAISY) USA, New York
1. Timothy (cage 9)
2. Homer (Bossman) (cage 17)
3. George (cage 17)
4. Plato (cage 17)
adopted by Deefar USA, New York1. Boyo- (in foster) agouti berk- approx. 8-12 mo, adventurous and very playful
2. Vandike - (in foster) agouti hoodie - approx. 18-24 mo, treated for pneumonia (clearing up wonderfully)
3. Sammy (cage 16)
4. Sampson (cage 16)
5. Lil Mama (cage 2)
6. Ginger (cage 2)
7. Willow (new cage) - black berk - 5 to 6 months old, black berk with stunning markings, friendly, always looking for attention.
8. Willis (new cage) - beige berk - 4-5 mo, hyper, happy, loves attention, sweet
9/10. Harriett and Henrietta 2 female degus
11. Ella (cage 3-females) - beige hoodie - 8-12 mo, Abby's sister
12. Abby (cage 3-females) - black hoodie - 8-12 mo, Ella's sister
adopted by Kent Canada, Ontario
1. Tesla (cage 14)
2. Darwin (cage 14)
adopted by Karen/trillium Canada, Ontario
1. Hobbes(cage 14)
adopted by Viven (Rat Charmer) Canada, Ontario
1. Tennant (cage 1)
2. Simms (cage 1)
3. Tesla (cage 1)
4. Lucy (cage 5)
adopted by Carol Ann Rowland Canada, Ontario
1. Jessie (cage 5)
2. Sniffles (cage 5)
adopted by Shelagh/lilspaz68 Canada, Ontario
1. Phlox (cage 2)
2. Hazel (cage 3)
3. Sweet Pea (cage 4)
4. Calla (cage 4) - black hoodie - 9 mo, sweet, friendly
5. Lily (cage 2) - black berk - 4-5 mo, sweet, friendly
6. Laurel (cage 2) - black hoodie - 4-5 mo, friendly, sweet
7. Alyssum (cage 2) - black hoodie - 4-5 mo, sweet, socialized
8. Poppy (cage 2) - black hoodie - 4-5 mo, sweet, socialized
adopted by Random Rat Canada, Ontario
1. Bambi (cage 4)
2. Beauty (cage 4)
adopted by Jenn Wilson (Jennw) Canada, Ontario1. Carn (cage 4) - black berk - 15 mo, Mom, sweet and friendly
2. Midge (cage 4) - black berk - 12 mo, daughter, sweet and friendly
3. Pint (cage 4) - black berk - 12 mo, daughter, sweet and friendly
reserved for Taunya A.
1/2. 2 degu girls
adopted by Patrica/Rodentist USA, New York
1. Caspian (liverpool babies) - black hoodie - 4-6 wks old, sweet
2. Rilian) (liverpool babies) - black hoodie - 4-6 wks old, sweet
3. Trilian (liverpool babies) - black hoodie with a kissy spot on his back - just above his tail. He is half the size of his better fed brothers as rescued weeks later by SQ/Holly
6. Clive (liverpool babies) - black berk - 4-6 wks old, sweet
5. Staples(liverpool babies) - black hoodie - 4-6 wks old, sweet
adopted by Dahlas Canada, Nova Scotia
1/2. Tory and Ace (bonded, elderly so must go together within martimes)
adopted by Theresa Canada, Nova Scotia
1/2. Mr. Bigg and his PEW brother, Rollie
adopted by breakthenight Canada, Nova Scotia
1. Keiran (cage 1)
2. Gallagher (cage 1)
Adopted/permanent foster by Raven (Twitch) Canada, New Brunswick
1. Chop Suey
2. Magi
3. Serraphim
4. Zen
Adopted by WOSMU Canada, Nova Scotia
1. Michelangelo (liverpool babies)
2. Raphael (liverpool babies)
Boy 4 (cage 16) - adopted through clark Canada, New Brunswick
Boy 5 (cage 16) - adopted through clark Canada, New Brunswick
male gerbil-reserved
Girl 2 (cage 5) died
Bruce (cage 19) died
and the numbers involved
Actual Miles Clocked...
All miles listed are One way, as time spent with rats traveling.
Raven/Twitch - St. John to Moncton (3X) = 286.8
Twitch's Uncle - Moncton to St. John = 95.6 & St. John to Halifax (2X) = 512
Godmother - Moncton to Dartmouth = 159 & Fredericton to Moncton = 111
SQ/Holly - Halifax to Moncton (3X) = 489 & Halifax to Dartmouth = 14.5
Dahlas - Bridgewater to Halifax = 64.4
Clark - Moncton to Montreal (2X) = 1228
Vanessa - Montreal to Markham (2X) = 668
Jorats - Sudbury to Markham (2X) = 476
moon - Markham to Toronto = 55
Lindy/Lj - Markham to London = 126
Karen/Trillium - London to Windsor = 119
Total for Canadian Mileage was 4, 403 miles!
Fosters
Dahlas -fostered Liverpool boys
Twitch - fostered The Fosters
Jane - overnight for transporters and short-term foster for rats (Thank you also to her volunteers who came in and helped clean up the chaos after all the rats departed! )
Amanda - foster for a week for U.S. ratties
Moon - fostered Gina's boys for 2 days
Cityratt - fostering the Himi boys for Sara
Shelagh - fostering for a week for Kent
Special Thanks to Moon - Hostess with the Mostest (offered us the best place to all meet up and take care of the rats and do the pickups for the rest of the deliveries...Thank you Moon!!!)
And some pics of the ladies I took in from this rescue...Laurel, Sweetpea (Pea), Calla and the Moncton Monster or Partygirls.
Partygirls (that's my sweet Poppy in Moon's hands)
My lovely Calla (Pea is hiding)
Pews!
This project was a huge undertaking. The rat community rallied together to help one rescue who needed our help.
Every bit of effort from everyone involved made this happen.
Who was around for the Clark/Moncton rat train rescue in 2008?
Well take that filth, that neglect, and quadruple the overcrowding, and you get the lovely RatsTownRattery!
Early yesterday we saw an ad on Kijiji for "rats giving away for free can't keep". My friend decided to email for more information, but first we decided to click on "View Poster's Other Ads". You can imagine my surprise when I found ads for Rats Town Rattery offering their "cute rats" in their other posts.
So my friend called the number and spoke to Julieann. She said they had "20 males and 10 females" and that they were all "a year or two old". We discussed what we could and what we should do. We decided we would go down there last night to assess the situation and then figure out what we could do.
It was so so SO much worse than anything we were expecting.
It was a small downstairs apartment and as soon as we took 2 steps down the smell hit us so that it was hard to breathe. Little did we know we'd be smelling that smell for the next few hours. We found out that they had just been kicked out of their old apartment and this one they had moved into a few weeks ago! The new landlord was giving them until Friday to get rid of all the rats and they were offering them up for free, otherwise they were going to be dumped in a nearby park. We were shown their "rat room"., he boys were in a homemade horrid wood box. It was a bit narrower than an FN, and shorter, with NO LEVELS. ALL the boys were in this cage. On pine. No food. One waterbottle empty and lying on its side.
At first glance, I estimated around 25-30 boys. Clearly they didn't know how to count, either.
I looked down at the girls... they were all in a blue-bottomed Living World Rat Resort cage, dimensions 25 x 24 x 16 inches (cage calculator says 2 rats). ALL the girls were in one. All 19 of them. (you can see Emma flat in the bottom of the cage)
Again, these people clearly don't know how to count.
They also tried to pawn a huge bag of pine off on us which we refused to take.
The guy thought all the minks were russian blues, and when we told him they were mink he asked if that was rare. *doh* The woman was crying and saying "OMG I love them so much, I am going to miss them!" (Why weren't you taking CARE of them if you loved them so much???)
So, we looked at each other and realized that there was no way in hell we could leave the rats there. So we crammed all the boys into the other Rat Resort that was empty for a transport cage, and the girls in their own, and crammed them all into my friends truck. We didn't know the final numbers yet, and we wouldn't until we got home.
We got to my place at about 10 pm and started "triage". The 28 boys were in bad shape, lots had abscesses from fights, and one scrawny beige boy (Gilbert) has an infected wound on his shoulder that looks very painful.
There were two nakies, one has a large cyst on his back (Leo), the other has a dead eye that looks like it's an old injury, and there's no smell of infection. He's very VERY skinny too. (Eli)
They are all so filthy, the dirtiest rats I've ever seen in my life. Here is a typical belly:
The girls are all younger, and in a bit better shape than the boys. One is older and is showing symptoms of PT (Emma), we're starting her on steroids and it was decided she would stay with me to treat her.
The others are between 6-8 months old, and there's a heck of a lot of blacks! Haha. They've figured out the hammocks fast.
There's one blue dumbo female who is apparently mom to a lot of the ratties. She looks so young...
Here's two of her son's, these one were in the Rats Town Rattery ad
And this is Dad:
Whenever we start to feel like, "What the hell did we just get ourselves into?" we keep saying to each other "We just shut down Rats Town Rattery." And that feels good.
The girls went into my friend's rescue and most were adopted out, as they had few issues beyond socialization. The boys were a whole different matter. so much illness, and injury and aggression.
Here are the stories of the residents that stayed (due to aggression, or illness).
RTR Hoodsie – black hooded
arrived thin, and a little weak, and cool to the touch
started on baytril/doxy week after triage, got pale, thinner and failed, died overnight.
DOD Jun 16/10
**RTR Emma** – black variberk
arrived with untreated PT, lying in bottom of cage with girls, unable to climb or move around much.
Was put on steroid therapy and rallied for a short time
DOD Jun 17/10
**RTR Connor – black hooded
arrived healthy
Dec 20/10 - Developed URI, was treated with baytril and doxy for 1.5 weeks was doing well, then got cold, weak and thin and wasn't able to move much air.
Jan 7/11 - Given dex injection, moved in with Eli and recovered for awhile
DOD Jan 28/11
**RTR Leo** – black self hairless
Arrived with a terrrible abscess on his back from a bite, cleaned up.
Was put into foster but returned as aggressive and alone
Oct 15/10 – neutered
Jan 23/11 - Developed a huge abdominal mass
DOD Feb 25/11
**RTR Eli** – black self hairless
Arrived painfully skinny, with a dead, damaged eye that spurt blood when he rubbed at it. he had an enucleation with Dr Munn (worst case he had ever seen, eyeball’s attachments had ripped and it had inverted), had a infection post-surgery from all the bacteria inside for so long, but resolved well.
Sep 21/10 - Eli must've had a seizure and become aggressive afterwards, as he disembowelled his old cagemate Russell (at this point we thought it was an accident as he was a very gentle boy)
Dec 3/10 - Eli bleeds into the ocular bulb, and he ends up having a seizure and almost dying, come out of seizure and becomes aggressive for a short time afterwards.
Goes to vet in the morning and he is back to being confused Eli, but he is sneezing blood out of his nose an shaking his head - put on dex, baytril and doxy.
Dr Hammond is pretty sure the pressure of the bleeding on the brain caused the seizures.
Affected "good" eye shrinks and dies by Dec 10th
Dec 17/10 - Eli suddenly becomes aggressive, and starts vicious biting and hormonal behaviour. He is unhandleable and blind.
I call Dr Munn and we decide that it could be a tumour pressing on his brain causing the seizures and the temperament change, amitriptyline is ordered in for him.
Dec 24/10 - eli started on Ami, and it works well
Jan 21/11 - Eli develops a URI
Mar 11 - discover internal tumour under sternum
Mar 11 - very large and nasty abscess in groin starts
Mar 17 - develops a little paraphimosis from the pressure of the abscess and its location
Mar 21 - abscess opens up and we start cleaning
Bounces back but is aging fast, died quietly at home beside me
DOD Apr 3/11
**RTR Gideon** – black hooded
arrived healthy and well. Sent to a foster home Jun 20/11
Returned from foster with 2 ailing cagemates (Finley-inner ear, Malcolm - severe UTI)
Oct 22/10 -Was neutered for aggression, helped a little but this boy was still aggressive and had to be handled carefully
July 2011 started aging fast
Aug 4 was thin but still mobile
Aug 26 was thinner, HED, and knuckling (internal mass?)
Sep 4/11 - ear started bleeding, he would shake his head, hard to stop the bleeding
Sep 7/11 - other ear started bleeding
DOD - Sept 8/11
**RTR Waco** – black hooded
arrived healthy, but aggressive. He had to be separated from all his cagemates (was supposed to be neutered at my fosters but due to mixup, wasn't)
Lived alone, and mostly unhandleable, but healthy for most of his time.
Sep 11/11 - testicular mass was noticed
Sep 20/11 - seemed very old and frail,HED full blown, so I introduced him to the Oldies group, and he was accepted and very happy. Jill especially cared for him
Sep 24/11 - noticed his head looked wide, and carefully felt along his jaw, a large mass below the mandible, that kept growing. He steadily got weaker over the weekend, found internal mass as well
DOD - Sept 26/11 (PTS along with Jill)
**RTR Percy** – black hooded
arrived with a URI, that has never gone away. He's been on meds, combo's of meds, and treatments the entire time. (baytril, baytril/doxy, baytril/amoxi, baytril/zithro, metacam, theophylline
Fear aggressive, actually terrified of people and handling, will bite if you're not careful. Terrified to be out of his cage/safe zone.
Developed a fleshy mass on his back, and a large attached tumour on his hip
Jan 14/11 - auction was run to get funds to have his tumours removed
Feb 21/11 - hip tumor recurred, also another lump was found on his belly
April 2011 - Percy started to really age, with hind end weakness and his tumours started to grow faster
Sep 29/11 - resp is horrible, HED is bad, tumour on belly is huge and hard. Will be pts sooner than later
DOD - Nov. 8/11
**RTR Toby** – black hooded
arrived healthy
May 2011 - developed a tumour on his side, that ended up scabbing
Tumour continues to grow, watching the scabbing
Toby develops HED, and has trouble with ramps, especially with the large tumour
Sep 7/11 - ear starts to bleed like Gideons did
Tumour is very large, will be pts soon
DOD - Nov. 30/11
**RTR Malcolm** – black hooded
Arrived healthy but older
fostered out but returned Sep 2010 due to a fall causing paralysis (turned out to be UTI)
Mal was paralysed in hind end due to bad UTI - treated and mostly recovered
HED started progressing
Aug 2011 - skin issues, scurf and grease in crazy amounts. It actually loosened the hair follicles so the hair could be pulled out gently, which made a chance at a skin infection less.
Sep 29/11 - still living and HED is almost full-blown
Nov 2011 - started becoming very incontinent (from bite near urethra in Foster?) and developed urine scald/sores, became temp Bed Rat on fleece, bathed almost daily and used petroleum jelly to be a waterproof barrier to his skin…sores healed and he was happily returned to his friends.
Dec 2011 - became a fulltime Bed Rat after he was unable to get around his cage bottom
Dec 25, 2011 - spent Christmas weekend up at my Mom's, getting cuddled, spoiled, and syringe fed
Jan 2012 - developed late onset PT
DOD- - Jan. 17, 2012
**RTR Finley** – black Berkshire
arrived healthy, went into foster with Waco and Connor
Sep 11/10 - returned from foster with a head tilt. Foster didn't treat the headtilt, so he had to go through a long course of meds, also had a URI
Stayed on meds almost entire time, his URI would flare up without abs as a preventative
Sep 29/11 - still going, still on abs for URI, some aging, but not too bad
Nov 2011 - aging fast, losing weight, HED is developing fast, tumour developing on sideFeb 5 - inner ear infection is back with a vengeance, shot of dex, fluids and then syringe feeding happily, he enjoyed it very much
DOD - Feb 6, 2012
**RTR Boris** – black self
arrived healthy and hormonally aggre
Oct 15/10 - neutered, worked very well, paired off with Toby
Sep 7/11 - older but decent body shape, no resp issues, no tumours
Sep 21/11 - discovered internal mass
Nov 2011 - developing HED rapidly along with relative weight loss
Feb 4/12 - developed PT symptoms, treated and bounced back for a happy short stint as a Bed Rat
DOD - Feb 7, 2012
**RTR Huron** – black Berkshire
arrived with a URI, that has never gone away. He's been on meds, combo's of meds, and treatments the entire time. (baytril, baytril/doxy, baytril/amoxi, baytril/zithro, metacam, theophylline
Aggressive, attempted to get his respiratory issues under control so he could be neutered (mostly unhandleable)..didn't work
Lived with RTR Percy, but separated due to fighting
Health beyond resp issues is good, still on his own at Sep 29/11
Feb 10, 2012 - URI flared up with a lot of congestion, added another med to his regime, dex and steaming which helped, had ordere a neb which I needed him to hold on for
he became a Bed Rat and a very happy one. Unfortunately he had a stroke the day the nebulizer arrived.
DOD - Feb 16, 2012
Adopted RTR Boys
RTR Chief – himilayan – adopted by Joanne/jorats
arrived healthy (8 mo)
was neutered for aggression, became docile but guarded
started having bouts of URI starting Nov 2010
March 2011 - started to deteriorate
May 2011 - complete paralysis
June 2011 - became emaciated
DOD - Aug 29, 2011
RTR Doc – mink self – adopted by Joanne/jorats
Arrived healthy (4 mo)
Neutered due to hormonal aggression
Stayed healthy until suddenly at 19 mo he died suddenly
Necro showed pulmonary abscesses in one lung burst
DOD - Sep 5, 2011
RTR Benny – black self – adopted by Kim/dogsnbears
arrived healthy
neutered at Rockwood
Adopted middle of Sept 2010
healthy but developed HED very early in his life
DOD - Nov 23/11
RTR Gilbert – beige self – adopted by Kim/dogsnbears
arrived sick, scrawny and with an infected wound on his shoulder
started with cleaning it out myself, debriding necrotic tissue, and water therapy
Jun 10/10 - ended up taking to vet for surgical debridement and closure, wound opened up but resolved soon after
Neutered at Rockwood
Adopted middle of Sept 2010
DOD - April 23/12
RTR Bates – black hooded – adopted by realisedsin
Arrived healthy
adopted Mid November 2010
Adopter went off-forum soon after…no more updates
RTR Aiden – black hooded – adopted by realisedsin
Arrived healthy but older
Adopted Mid Noveber 2010
Adopter went off-forum soon after…no more updates
RTR Melvin – black self 0 adopted by Janine/Nettster
arrived healthy and younger
off and on URI's
DOD Feb 26/12
RTR Oreo – black belly band – adopted by Janine/Nettster
arrived healthy and younger
off and on URI's
DOD Feb 26/12
RTR Chip – black belly band – adopted by CCH adopter
Neutered at Rockwood
Adopted Sept 2010
CCH didn’t give me contact info, and never contacted adopter for updates
RTR Willy – mink belly band – adopted by CCH adopter
Neutered at Rockwood
Adopted Sept 2010
CCH didn’t give me contaft info, and never contacted adopter for updates
RTR Charlie – pearl merle hooded – adopted by Lea-Andra/LA
Arrived healthy but full adult
Neutered then adopted Aug. 2010
Healthy until Sep 28/11 - went to vet, has URI and inner ear infection
from then on resp and UTI
failed suddenly, was pts (30 mo)
DOD - Nov 29/11
RTR Daddy-O – beige berkshite – adopted by Lindy/lj
arrived dirty but healthy, much older adult
Adopted Aug 2010
developed a terrible tumour in his armpit that moved up into his neck
DOD - 11/8/2011
RTR Jerry – mink Berkshire – adopted by Lindy/lj
Arrived as a healthy but much older adult
Adopted Aug. 2010
URI’s late in life
DOD - 12/7/11
RTR ? – black hooded – adopted by Dee’s friend when she was fostering
Adopted mid-August 2010
No updates, no contact info
RTR ? – black hooded – adopted by Dee’s friend when she was fostering
Adopted mid-August 2010
No updates, no contact info
