April 8, 2011 Adoptables in the immediate future
This is just a note for my waiting list and former adopters who may be wanting another BVR rat or two to expand their families.
Because I try not to breed more litters than are necessary and due to the age of my upcoming breed-stock girls, I will not have babies available to adopt until this fall.
Because the Burmese litter I’ll be doing right after the NIRO spring show is a co-breed, and because it is the start of a whole new bloodline here, there will be no available babies in that litter. TMCC and BVR will be splitting the litter evenly, and I’ll be keeping all of mine to carefully watch and select in order to found the new line. Because there’s very limited health information available about TMCC Demetrius’ pedigree, I wouldn’t feel comfortable selecting from only 2-3 rats.
I won’t feel comfortable breeding Sparks and Spike any earlier than 8 months, which means I’ll start trying to catch them in heat in August. Even if I catch them on the first go, their babies won’t be ready to go until September at the earliest, and possibly October, just before we shut down breeding for the RFL show Pre-Show Isolation. The good news is that both of those litters should have plenty of babies available to pet adopters, if they happen!
My post-RFL litters will have one available to pet adopters (FSTR Arrakis’ litter) and one that most likely will not (BVR Jolt’s litter) because again, that litter is a line-builder and I need to have adequate selection from in the future.
Bottom line is, if you’re interested in a BVR rat, there will be very limited adoption opportunities this year, so if you’re on my waiting list, there will indeed be a wait. This allows me to build better bloodlines to work from, and not to add more than necessary to the pet overpopulation issues by breeding “extra” litters.
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