Family Affair Rattery
Family Affair Ratz

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We are a small family run rattery located in northern Pasadena. We have been dedicated hobbyists in the rat fancy game, and are now breeding from time-honored stock. Our animals are bred for personality, temperament and health. We breed sparingly, choosing to devote time and energy to raising beautifully socialized animals!   We breed these intelligent, affectionate animals to produce loving family pets.

We believe rats are wonderful pets for anyone who is interested in them!  They are gentle, clean, intelligent, and therapeutic.  Please ask about our priority for chemo patients who want a hairless rat!

We only breed a couple of times a year.  This is a love, not a business.  This ensures that we have the time and resources to take care to produce amazingly well socialized and loving pets!

Dwarf Rats  Our dwarf rats will steal your heart!  We have a variety of colors and patterns, and have hairless and are working on double rex and harley!
Hairless Rats    Our hairless rats are the stars of the day!  We are blessed with lactating hairless lines...these are healthly babies!
Other Fancy Rats  Beautiful siamese, burmese, hooded, blazes and 
                                                    the occasional tailless!



Mature Ratties Available for Adoption:

None right now!

Baby and Young Ratties Available for Adoption:

1 male from Kevin and Storm, 1 male from Beaches and Mini


Updates:  FAR Kevin and FAR Storm, a black rex male carrying dwarf and a black rex female carrying dwarf had a litter on 9-26-11.  Ten babies, 2 females, 8 males.  Females are reserved,  two males are staying at FAR.  A combination of red eye and black eye siamese, black self, and blue in rex, standard, and double rex.  Take a look!  Cute cute Kevin and Storm babies



FAR Mini and Far Beaches, A black eyed himalayan based Burmese dumbo female and a standard sized Russian Blue hairless dumbo male, have 6 pups, 3 females and 3 males, all dumbo, born 9-29-11 
FAR Softy and FAR BeachesA black eyed himalayan dumbo female and a standard sized Russian Blue hairless dumbo male, have 5 pups, 3 females, 2 males, all dumbo, born 9-30-11.

Looking Forward

In January we will be breeding the next step towards dwarf and dwarf hairless.  You probably see that we don't breed very often, but we are breeding a bit more frequently just because my beautiful ratties have amazing bloodlines that I don't want to lose!  Thanks for your patience.   

Wait Listers: Email me if you are interested in being put on FAR's list.  It is your responsibility to keep checking the site!  If you have not adopted from me before I will need to know how you plan to keep these animals, cage type, bedding type, food, etc.  Please put RAT in the subject line!
 
Please be patient if you are on our waiting list.   We only breed a few times a year.  This is a love, not a business. We won't promise specific animals at specific times.  We breed carefully and thoughtfully, and if you are on our waitlist, and if we have someone in our litters that we are not going to keep for breeding that fits with what you want then we try to place them with you!

If you have rats already we will not adopt out rats of the opposite sex unless you are a confirmed breeder associated with a rat group, such as CARE, AFRMA or RMCA, or unless we have worked with you before. 

 


Breeders seeking FAR rats
FAR will only give breeding contracts for rats to established breeders.

WAITING LIST *

When you ask to be put on my waitlist I contact you when the next babies are born.  If the particular litter does not interest you but you would still like to remain on the waitlist you MUST CONTACT ME WITHIN THREE DAYS OF NOTIFICATION.  I will be happy to keep you on the waitlist but you need to confirm that you are still interested.
Waiting list people are required to check the new litters pages and contact me with a deposit within a week of the pics being posted.  I have had too many wait listers change their minds, and then the poor ratties miss out on amazingly good owners!  Rat babies for people on the wait list will be listed as pending, but only for one week.



FAR always get p.o.l. 
Occasionally breeders will take priority over waitlisters. 
Chemo patients always take priority for hairless rats.

 
Please consider donating to the IBC Network FoundationOne of the few breast cancer foundations that commits a significant portion of their proceeds to research and clinical trials for metastatic breast cancer.  Education and awareness are so important, but for those of us impacted, we need to find a cure!  Ask about contributing to the IBC Foundation in lieu of paying the adoption fee in cash for FAR ratties.  IT's a win win!  http://theibcnetwork.org/
Ready for rats? 
Please read this:

http://www.ratzrealm.com/id115_htm.htm
Come back when you are done!

If you have had or are currently undergoing chemo and are seeking a hairless rat (I got one during chemo and named her Alopecia!) let me know.  I'll move you up on the waiting list!  :0) God Bless!

Please remember:  Rats are social creatures that do best with a companion of the same sex.  Rats do not need to be littermates to be wonderful cagemates, so rats from different litters, even different breeders usually live together very well, especially if introduced at a young age! 
Ratties available at FAR

FAR Kevin and FAR Storm
born 9-26-11

Available 11-5-11
This litter is mostly rex, may carry dwarf
F1  black eye Siamese rex  FAR Hazel RESERVED
F2  Blue rex FAR Nutmeg RESERVED
M1  Black self double rex FAR Mr. Haggis RESERVED
M2  AVAILABLE Ruby eye Champagne rex
M3  Red eye Himi rex RESERVED
M4  Pending Ruby eye Champagne rex
M5  Black eye Siamese rex FAR Kevinson RESERVED
M6  Blue rex Reserved for Ratty Rat Rattery
M7  Black self rex Reserved for Silas Gann
M8  Pending Black self standard fur

FAR Beaches and FAR Mini
born 9-29-11

Available 11-12-11
This litter is all dumbo, carries dwarf and hairless
F1  Russian Blue dumbo FAR Snuggles RESERVED
F2  Burmese Dumbo FAR Rose RESERVED for Alana
F3  Red Eye Siamese Dumbo RESERVED for Lauryn
M1 AVAILABLE Red Eye Siamese Dumbo
M2 Burmese Dumbo Reserved for Ratty Rat Rattery
M3 Burmese Dumbo FAR Andaway RESERVED


FAR Beaches and FAR Softy
born 9-30-11

Available 11-12-11
This litter is all dumbo, carries dwarf and hairless
F1 Russian Blue dumboRESERVED for Lauryn
F2 Russian Blue Burmese dumbo FAR Citrus RESERVED
F3  Black Eye Himi Dumbo FAR Fluffy- RESERVED
M1 Burmese Dumbo FAR Cuddles- RESERVED
M2 Red Eye Siamese dumbo Reserved for Silas Gann

Pictures posted!
 Potential Adopters:  Please remember to keep in contact with us, letting us know how your rat is doing.  We are always striving to improve type, temperament and quality, so we need to hear about our ratties throughout their lives!  We are always evaluating our lines, and working to improve them in any way we can. 
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New IBC update posted!  Please feel free to read about my Inflammatory Breast Cancer journey as told through my prayer requests to a wonderful group of family and friends!
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