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Jinsin in the green season ❤️

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We are slowlyyy starting to gain interest in the available ratties.

I have 3 boys, a fixed M/F pair, and two girls from the easter stray group who are pending. Then in a little over a week once well checks on the easter stray boys are done I can send the two who aren't pending to my foster home and be down one cage.

Of course as soon as I get that enclosure empty, I do have two chinnies being returned that will fill it back up.

I am planning to introduce Vita and Virginia to the Pipsqueakery girls once they're all well checked, since I'd rather have one cage with 6 rats than a cage with 2 and a cage with 4. Just easier.

I'd LIKE to get at least one more mouse into a new foster home (I have 4 at my house) and empty 2 more rat/chin enclosures.

Right now I am at 69 animals in 29 enclosures and I would like to get down to 55 animals.

I also really want to find a way to set up a permanent free roam area for the rats so I don't have to be setting it up and tearing it down all the time.

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My handsome boys

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I can’t believe Taco (guinea pig) is turning FIVE soon 😭😭😭 he’s just a baby

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A couple of foster beasts. Virginia, Minibell, Gandalf, and Michelangelo

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tonight’s plan is to feed all of the herps and sweep

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tonight I'm going to clean both degu cages and Doc's cage. I cleaned the stray girls this morning.

if i have time I will spot clean the piggy cages, otherwise tomorrow. and the girl rats tomorrow too, but i might need to buy more bedding again first.

I also want to put the new playpen together soon

to do:

-buy more bedding

-clean degu pair cage

-clean degu trio cage

-clean doc’s cage

-spot clean piggies

-clean stray girls cage

-clean girl rat cage

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We have 100 animals at the rescue right now... Luckily we have 11 pending adoptions, but we have 32 animals on the waitlist and I get emails every day.

I am not sure what more I can do to try to get animals adopted, or to get more fosters, at least that is feasible with my current workload.

I know that I can't help every animal and it is not my responsibility to do so, but that doesn't really actually make it easier.

I'm just tired. Hoping since I have been able to start listing the baby rats for adoption, that I can get most of them adopted in the next few weeks and not have quite so many enclosures. There are 68 animals at my house currently and it's a lot.

I will manage, I'm just complaining a little. I have been careful to prioritize my intakes so that I don't take a bunch of non urgent animals and then end up with no space for urgent ones. I am offering courtesy listing on our socials to everyone on the waitlist, but most don't respond and only want to surrender.

There's only so much I can do... And the other local rodent rescues are in the same situation.

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to do:

-buy more bedding

-clean degu pair cage

-clean degu trio cage

-clean doc’s cage

-spot clean piggies

-clean stray girls cage

-clean girl rat cage

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Haven’t been active much on here bc I’ve been insanely busy 🫠🙃

Doc has a respiratory infection, I have a mouse who came in with pneumonia, and then Shogun the rat self harms due to anxiety and has a URI so he’s on TWO meds!

Plus socializing the unsocialized rats, constant vet checks to get through my backlog, and I’m getting at least 1 surrender request a day and EVERY rescue is full basically.

But we’ll get through it

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Michelangelo had to get x-rays today (he has pneumonia) and then had to come to work with me after so we got him fitted for a fine italian wool suit

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I think it is Nyx and Frog’s time soon.

They are my last two mouse girls. Frog is 2.5 and Nyx is 2. They’ve both developed eye conditions with age and they are getting worse. Frog is losing weight too. Nyx isn’t quite as bad off but it won’t be much longer and I would rather they go together.

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Tonight's to do list:

-Rat girl playtime

-Clean rat girl enclosure

-Clean rat boy enclosure

-Couch time for Shogun

-Upload mice to Petfinder

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We took in 6 rats as a transfer from The Pipsqueakery this past weekend. They were from a hoarding case in Ohio. Ignore the shaved fur- they were all spayed/neutered.

I decided to go with a Locked Tomb theme for names

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Tonight I am dropping off 6 rats with another rescue, I’ve been babysitting them since the transport.

Then I need to get home and clean both of my rat cages. If I have time I need to do rat playtime for the group of 5 girls at a minimum.

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got home from the pipsqueakery trip late last night

today’s to do list:

-clean stray girls enclosure

-wash all my dirty hides

-bring up clean pig laundry and sort

-put dirty pig laundry in bin

-emails

-hamster intake

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Hey, US folks--if you haven't already heard, the federal government is taking public comments on whether to weaken the Endangered Species Act. In short, they want to redefine the definition of "harming" wildlife (not just animals but also plants and fungi, though no fungi have been listed yet) so that the destruction of wildlife habitat is no longer considered to be harm under the ESA.

As anyone who knows anything about ecology, wildlife biology, or just the way the natural world works knows, if you destroy a species' habitat, you harm that species. Period. The people who want this definition changed are corporations and other entities who want to use sensitive wildlife habitat for logging, mining, even golf courses. Meanwhile, endangered species that rely on these places as their last havens are much more likely to go extinct because they can't just "go somewhere else".

This isn't wishy-washy bleeding-heart stuff here. This is SCIENCE. Actual scientists who have dedicated their careers to studying wildlife and their habitats are the ones who have been pushing so hard for decades to protect and restore these lands, and to educate people on why habitat destruction is the single biggest cause of species endangerment and extinction.

Sunday, May 18, 2025, is the last day to leave a public comment. You can do so at https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001. This doesn't have to be a long or involved comment; simply saying "I do not support changing the current definition of harm in the Endangered Species Act" is enough. It won't take long, but it will let those in charge know what we, the people, want. Thank you for taking the time for this.

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