RAT BABIES (& the current menagerie)

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Four boys, four girls, plus one runt who didn't make it till I got home from work. They are so ridiculously adorable. Pictures tomorrow, because I keep forgetting to take them when handling them today and I don't want to disturb the mommy again this evening. I'm already completely in love. You're supposed to pick up the babies a ocuple of times a day to start socialising them, and whether or not it's hooking the babies on human contact, it's sure hooking me on the babies.

Until I get pics of them, here's the current crew:

Auntie Lightning says hi:


Auntie Sunday isn't too sure about any of this:


Auntie Bandita, cleverly disguised beneath her mask (her and Sunday are sisters, and also they are half-sisters to Lightning...


...and to the mommy Silver, who isn't big on pictures:


Rain, the camera-hog boy:


And Honeypie, the black blob, only visible after Rain is forcibly restrained from approaching the camera:


One more of Lightning:


And Helen a year ago, she's the pink one. The others are no longer with me (but are Merlyn, Caramel, Small Rat, and Sweetie)