Useful Stuff:
Other Ratteries
If Ramkin rats cannot provide the animals you are looking for, then please consider other options, some of which are listed below, and are relatively local to us.
RCT Rats Banbury, British Blue and British Blue Agouti, also Black, Agouti and British Blue Blazed Berkshires (Badgers) from September 2009.
Hakuna Matata Rattery HKM Rats have provided me with the starter rats for my lines. Cheltenham - BE/RE Seal and Russian Point Siamese, Black and Russian Blue. Hairless and Topaz/Agouti variegated.
Alpha Centauri Stud Alpha Centauri Stud has also provided starter rats for my lines, which has included my first dumbos. Weston-super-Mare - British Blue, Wheaten Burmese and Golden Himalayan.
Aquarius RatteryStroud, Gloucestershire - British Blue, British Blue Agouti and Black in top eared.
Symphony Rattery Reading - Ivory and blacks.
Comis Stud Bedford - Russian based rats working towards Dove Agouti.
Fizzlephut Rattery - North West London - Mis-marked ("splodgies") in mink, black, cinammon and pearl.
Atlas Rats - Russian Dove in self and Essex, with related varieties in dumbo and top eared varieties.
Rescue:
It is not only breeders who have rats looking for their forever homes. Every year significant numbers of rats and other small furries, both babies and adults, end up in rescue centres across the country. If you cannot find a breeder locally to you with available kittens, you can consider homing from a rescue.
FindaFurry This free, volunteer-run, site specialises in linking small animals across the country to their forever homes. Not simply rats, but hamsters, rabbits, ferrets, chinchillas, gerbils and many many more.
Other Small Furries:
The Crittery For information on less well-known small furries.
Cages and Accessories
Once you have found your pets, you want to give them the best - or at least the best you can afford in the current economic climate - and with some of the links below in my opinion you can do both. The following are some of the places from where we source our food, treats and cage accessories.
Betty's Beds - Durable hammocks that even our most destructive of chewers have found difficult to swallow! And they come in enough different colours, patterns and styles to suit any tastes! My bucks particularly like these.
The Rat Warehouse Everything your little furry friends' heart desires from grooming accessories to the latest in organic yummies can be found here.
Acrorats Everything your little furry friends' heart desires can be found here, particularly when it comes to upgrading their current living arrangements from merely large to massive.