Wow its been DAYS!

Holy cow I cant believe how many days its been since Ive posted! Woops! And I see MySpace isnt picking up my blog so Ill have to work on that. ANYWAY heres all the news here but I do have a disclaimer:

Mom/Pat/anyone wishing to be negative: I get that u hate rats. And most cats. But guess what. This aint ur blog and just because u dont like something (and btw there r A LOT of things u people dont like) DOESNT mean the kids and I cant like it. Ok? So remember if u dont have anything nice to say then shut the hell up and dont say anything at all damnit! I dont really need to hear Angelina cry because u people say things about her pets that she loves. Have some sympathy.

Ok so now that we have that out of the way here we go. So most of u know Angelina picked out 2 rats a couple weeks ago at a pet store that was going out of business. They were selling off all the ratties as feeders for $1 and we just couldnt let that happen so we took 2 Siamese girls home with us. One is just a little thing and her name is Crystal. Shes so pretty and such a sweet little thing. Angelina would sit and hold her all day if we didnt have any cats! The other is also Siamese and shes a little older and her name is Salem. Well Salem had a cold when we got her so she was on antibiotics for that (NO Mom and Pat people cant catch shit from rats no matter what ur moron teachers taught u in school!) but at the same time as she was on the meds for the cold we didnt know she was already pregnant when we got her (here comes the Mom and Pat fit!). Anyway when we figured out she was pregnant we switched her to baby safe meds and we started posting online and found a bunch of homes for the babies. People were emailing like crazy wanting them. We agreed we would keep just 1 girl and that was it and that the rest would go to good homes. Well 9 days ago Salem had 5 beautiful little babies. 4 girls and 1 boy. Now for rats thats a VERY small litter. Usually they have around 12 babies so 5 was a shock. I was happy with 5 though to be honest. I knew 5 would be easy to find homes for 4 of them so no problems there and I knew Salem should do great with such a small litter when it comes to nursing them because there would be no fighting for food! So really I was happy with the 5. The babies looked GREAT! Nice and pink and wiggly and so damn cute it wasnt even funny. Everything was good for the first 3 days until I took the little ones out to clean the cage. I noticed 1 was turning yellow like it was jaundiced. Went online and emailed Donna, T, Terry and Cathe for help and started to research. Well it seems the babies were effected while they were still in Salems belly by the meds and had some liver issues. Poor things. Unfortunately the 1 little yellow one died the next day and when I took her out I realized 2 more babies were turning yellow. CRAP! So this went on and we researched non-stop and figured out that really it was just a waiting game and there was nothing we could do. So now lets fast forward 2 days to day 6. One of the little yellow looking babies wasnt looking so good. She was really weak and just terrible looking. The other 1 was looking almost just as bad and then another 1 was starting to turn yellow but not quite as fast and not as bad. The 1 the male looked great. Nice and pink and growing fine. That nite I went to check on them again and the 1 really bad looking baby was dead. Next morning the other really bad looking 1 was gone as well leaving us with only 2 babies on day 7 - 1 healthy looking male and 1 yellowish looking female. Ive been fully expecting the female to die but so far at day 9 shes still going so hopefully she will pull through this and the male still looks great and is such a fat little guy! Weve named the Isabel and Nigel and we r just watching them like hawks and hoping they both make it through this mess. The kids have been very upset having to see 3 of their little babies die hence my disclaimer to anyone wishing to be negative at the start of this post. I dont think we r out of the woods just yet but Im really hopeful that these 2 will be just fine. They r both active and getting in tons if hair. Donna says Isabels size is good but Nigel is a tad obese LMAO hey hes a typical man going for the boobie as often as possible LOL! Salem is doing a wonderful job as a Mama even though shes been through so much with losing 3 of her little ones. Rats can definitely get sad and depressed by the death of a baby. Ive seen that first hand and its really very sad to watch but she seems to be doing much better now and is even trusting me to handle the little ones more and more each day! Here r a few pics. Anyone who doesnt like rats click the little X at the top of ur page now and dont bother looking!

Salems beautiful little face!
All 5 rittens at 12 hours old
Nigel & Isabel at 8 days old
Isabel at 8 days old - my little fighter
Nigel at 8 days old - Mr. Fatty McRattie
Thats it! Ill try to keep updating here as the days go by!