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Published: 2009-11-29 23:04:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 310; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 0
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My youngest rat Odyssey had babies 3 days ago ( on Thanksgiving) this is them on day three! There are four of them. Welcome to the world little angels.
**Edit**
The little girl on the end closest to my fingers passed away last night. She was only 3 days old , R.I.P. little one.
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oh really?? so adorable!
i want them anyhow!! i used to have rats!!i loved them soo much!
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Just can't resist go "aww"! 
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hehe I liked hamsters for a while but rats are much more lovable!
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My rat Ginger had twelve in her first litter. And she was very young at the time. I doted on her for weeks, the best food and shelter, and pounced on anyone who so much as coughed near her.
They all survived and are the brightest and healthiest rats I've ever owned. Lady Luck must have been smiling on them.
It's just a shame that sometimes you can do everything right, and something will still go wrong.
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Twelve is a lot! My brother's rat had 14! and they all survived
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Smaller litters would usually be healthier, but I guess it could've been something genetic or a development problem. It's always sad to loose them so young, though.
Here, maybe this'll help cheer you up.
I went away for a weekend and left the litter with my mum, and when I came back they'd vanished. I was all "Mum how can you loose 13 rats!"
I was really panicky 'cause our two dogs are rat-catchers and we live in the countryside so if a wild rat was in the house it would kill them., not to mention electric cables and other dangerous stuff.
It turned out that while I'd been gone Ginger had:
broken out of a glass tank (I still don't quite know how)
moved all 12 babies
brought all her wool bedding
taken all the food drom her cage
stolen all the food from a feed bag she'd broken into
chewed up two years worth of notes from my Law coursework for extra bedding
and gone to live under the radiator on the other side of the room.
Luckily the babies were still easy to catch, and they all got back safely, but Ginger was very annoyed with me for spoiling all her hard work.
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Oh my goodness! How funny is that! You must have been so worried but then so relieved! I am happy her and her babies turned out fine ^_^ That stinks she chewed up all that work though , you must have been mad!
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For the final year of my course everytime my lecturers asked me for something I had to say "sorry, my rat ate it"
It was impossible for people to take me seriously after that.
But worth it for those cute little monsters
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hahaha! Sorry , my rat ate it ... I can only imagine the faces!
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Aww... and poor little one. Unfortunately that is common with rodent litters (probably part of the reason they have so many.) I had mice when I was a kid and we would always lose at least one when they had babies.
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My brother had two rats that were pregnant at the same time , and all together they had 22 babies , he didn't loose one 
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Cute little babys and Welcome on Earth!
R.I.P to the little girl that passed away... She will watch about her silblings now...
One of my rats had babies too, it were 13, but one (also a white) died after 2 days
A breeder told me that it maybe was leucism.
I don't know who the father was, since she was an emergency.
I think the other ones will be healthy rats
They are ust soooo cute!
I have 9 now
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9?! Wow , that is a lot ^_^ I have 3 right now ( and 3 babies)
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Yeah, 9 xD
Never wanted to have that much, I had 4 at the moment...
But little Coco was pregnant then - and voila - 3 new baby girls
the 9 boys live with my father.
I also think that she was sick, seeing, that she was the only white one I think theres a higher possibility that it was leucism.
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Yeah ... another thing that makes babies sick is megacolon , I think my girl may have had that .
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They can die of megacolon in this young age?
I know that they die around 4 weeks, when they start to drink less milk and in very rare situtations they can get it when they become old.
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Actually , it is just as common for them to die from it at 1-7 days as it is 3-4 weeks. It is becoming more common unfortunately as of late.
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I never heard of that - maybe it's different in other countries?
Here in Germany I only read/hear of these that die around 4 weeks and most info pages say the same.
But I still learned something new 
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Yeah , it is different in different countries I think , because of genetics
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That's very interesting I think
So much to learn...
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thats sooo cute
i think the first one will be a white one
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The only little white one died today
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noooooo!
why did this happening?
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oh mah gawd. too fucking cute. get them away or i will squeeze them to death out of cuteness.
*flails*
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oh no. i'm sorry to hear that.
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Me too ... she was my favorite!
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hehehe they only get cuter too!
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Precious. Haunting. Thanks for sharing this.
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I guess some people find this kind of thing "Cute".. I find it to be pretty gross but I have to say interesting to look at non the less.
Weird how the whiskers are the first to pop out.
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