my first baby rats

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im REALLY trying not to get too attached to these babies, but im just so excited about this. months and months ago i bought 2 little girl rats and 2 little boy rats, one being a hairless male. all were only a few months old. recently i put all of them together for about 2 weeks and then seperated the males. i put the 2 girls with 2 other girls i bought in a big wire cage. i really should have writen down when i put them with the males so i knew when they would have babies. i could tell it was going to be soon cause the girls were geting really fat and i kept telling myself i would put them in another cage soon.

today i woke up and heard something funny and looked in the cage and saw the one rat hovering over a pile of babies. i flipped out and knew i had to get them out because the cage has a wire bottom with a tray underneath. i put the 2 big girls in a small aquaruim and started taking babies out. some of them were in the wire holes, not stuck though, they were wiggling their selves out or down into the tray.

when i finally got the babies out i counted 24 babies, there was definetly more than that, the moms had already eaten some of them, hopefully just the ones that were born dead or very sick. when i put the babies with the girls they seperated them into 2 piles and started nursing. i guess they both had babies on the same day im not sure. but im so proud that they are nursing them and i cant believe they had so many babies their first time. just had to share my story, sorry it was long, enjoy the pic.