I have found Ratz and Fancy Rats to be very useful over the past few years as I have learn more about these wonderful animals. Below are general pages to help with ideas.

• My rats are kept in same sex groups.

• All my rats are handled daily for at least 30 minutes per group.

• My rats are kept in good sized cages - I have an 4 Explorers and two Abodes which house my groups.

• My rats are bedded on Bedmax as a base litter, with Yesterdays News in the litter trays and torn newspaper & kitchen towel in the igloos. All the cages have hammocks as well as toys to keep them entertained.

• My rats are spot cleaned daily and cleaned out once a week. Once a month I have full clean which invloved the whole cage being scrubbed.

• My rats are fed on a diet based on the Shunamite diet which I vary each time I make it. Please see the links above for more details.

• All water bottles are emptied/refilled daily and scrubbed out twice a week.

• Dr Squiggles is offered twice a week and water is available 24/7.

• All my kittens are handled daily from birth.

• My kittens are given 2 meals a day (breakfast & evening time) of fresh foods, such as Egg, Chicken & pasta plus a serving of Curly Kale. They also have dry mix available to them all day and is topped up as soon as the bowl is empty. A bottle of Lactol (puppy milk) is offered 3 times a week.

• All expectant/nursing mothers are kept in a Ferplast Mary, until the litter is 3 weeks old they then, depending on the size of the litter, I move them in to a Savic Freddy. At 4.5 - 5 weeks the boys and girls are seperated and housed in Savic Freddy's. If the litter is small (less than 10 kittens) then they will remain in a Mary style cage.