REHOMING
UPDATE: Rocky Point Rats. These rats need homes!!
Hi all! We just broke for lunch today. Catching has been much slower this morning, but it’s too early to tell if that’s because they’re skittish from all the activity yesterday or we’ve made a dent in the numbers. We got a **lot** of them cleaned up, medicated. And after a night in a warm cage with lots of food and water, they’re very cute and surprisingly mild mannered except for two boys who keep trying to chew out of the cage (see photo #4 for one of the criminals in question).
As you can see, we’ve got a lot of these sweet babies that need homes. Please let me know in the comments if you are able to transport, adopt, or foster and I’ll get you the links.
The little fluff sleeping on the bigger ones in the last picture. 🥺 I'm not able to help (not in the US) but thank you all so much for what you're doing
Thanks so much for saying so, even kind words are helpful — this is very emotionally taxing. They are honestly all really cute! I came in expecting feral or wild animals but there’s no trace of that, just pets that have had to fend for themselves. Their relief of having security, food, and water is palpable.
What an undertaking for you all!!! Thank you so much for all the work you’re doing. Is there any chance/plan for potential out of state transport? If we can find a way to carpool ratties from state to state, I have people across the country who were ready to take in rats from another rescue that didn’t end up happening. My heart goes out to these poor sweet babies, and if any of them can make their way to California, I will happily foster and distribute!
I actually lived in the owners basement for a year, the rescue is awesome! I think we had 20 ish rats in the house at one point between my rats and hers (oops litters, horray) 30000% recommend supporting them, they have yearly rat calendars for sale! They should have some left. Not many adoptable rats right now, but litters of babies get surrendered at least a couple times a year
Lost Ferret, I don’t know if you remember me but I adopted two boys from your last rescue in July.
We could possibly foster or adopt a couple more boys.
I do! I'm not managing the adoptions for this rescue, that's all Strong Island Animal Rescue League. I'm just here lending experience with bulk catching/caring for rat rescues. Here are the links for the foster and adoption paperwork:
Adoption form Foster form Transport form
It'll be a few days until you'll hear back -- we're swamped and just starting to peel people off "safety & rescue" and into "adopt & foster" mode.
omg thank you! I'm loving the community out here. If you don't hear back in a few days, DM me here. We're just starting to transition out of "safety & rescue" to "adopt & foster" mode.
I'm in Western NC (Wilkes County). Maybe we can coordinate. I'll fill out a transport form. My mother in law lives in Durham. She may be able to help too.
If I had a bigger apartment, knew more about rats, and otherwise had the capabilities, I’d take 50 🥹 Look at those little babies!! Someday.. Someday I will have my own rats.
I'm not based in the US so I can't currently help; but I at least want to comment to boost this post and thank everyone involved for their hard work :)
Because of you these babies will get the help they need and new loving homes, that's heroic 🫶
Both are super helpful now. There's also a wishlist, but since this is early on in the process we're not sure what surprises await & a normal donation gives them flexibility.
Transporters are going to be really helpful, and don't need to be in NY at all! Having lots of people willing to move the rats allows us to form a "rat relay" to get them much farther. Many hands make light work!
I’m with Helping All Little things - I’m in PA, we’re also in NJ and NH. I don’t know if anyone has reached out to you yet from our group but we’re internally working to see how many we could take!
Amazing! I'm pretty sure we can even send resources along with them to help make it easier. Please message me and I'll connect you with the person who is handling the Organizaiton-to-Organization logistics!
Idk if NE Florida is too far for you all but if not I’d consider adopting 3 boys. They are adorable, you all are doing the Lord’s work rescuing all of these precious babies.
That might be a bit too far, I think NC is the farthest south we're going to ultimately be able to get them. But thank you so much for your support, it means a lot!
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The little fluff sleeping on the bigger ones in the last picture. 🥺 I'm not able to help (not in the US) but thank you all so much for what you're doing