Rattatious Grandma: About Me

Hello & Welcome!

I am Anna, aka the Rattatious Grandma. I recently retired, on April Fool's Day 2022, so appropriate for me. The one thing I seriously wanted to do as soon as I retired was to raise rats, again.

I say again because over 30 years ago I raised and bred rats. They were supposed to be for my two young daughters, but because my daughter's were very young, I'm the one who cleaned their cages, paid for their supplies, and generally oversaw their care. And became very attached to them in the process.

Because we accidentally received a male and a female, instead of two females, we soon had 13 new baby rats. We raised them to a sufficient age for rehoming and sold them through a local pet shop as hand raised rat pets. There was such demand for hand-tame baby rats that we worked out a deal with the shop owner to breed and raise more hand-tame babies in exchange for all the rat food, supplies, and toys that our rats needed. It was an arrangement that worked out for everyone involved, but times have changed in the 30+ years and family owned pet shops aren't the same as they once were.

I am not looking to full-time breed them now, but I do enjoy having them as my own pet companions. They have always been wonderful pocket pets to me, like kittens that never grow up, but my work just didn't leave enough spare time to care for them properly, until my retirement.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this blog, but I know that I want to share this journey and my sweet little mischief with anyone interested in learning more about these wonderful creatures.

Here are the members of my mischief as I begin this new venture in my retired life. I will be sharing about each of them and my new retired adventure in this blog, I hope you will stay tuned.

Annie