A Colorado Rat Breeder - Camarattery

As most of you know one of my adopters burglarized my home in February. They took everything my family had except our clothes and some of our furniture.. Some of the animals were taken as well.

Obviously this has changed how I feel about having adopters in my home. And its changed how I feel about the rats in general, my passion is not completely lost but I have a hard time letting rats go because my trust has been lost. Even though I know 99% of my adopters are good people I am having a hard time determining who is who. My aggressive new German shepherd tends to be a better judge of character than I am. I pity the fool who comes into my home with bad intentions next time.

As a result I have adopted out most of my rats over the past few months, going from 50 standard rats to the teens. So I will no longer be breeding as much as before. I simply cannot. And I no longer have the big cages to hold that many rats. Those critter nations were just to laborious and taxing to clean.

I cant post nice pictures anymore, I cannot let anyone in my rattery to see or play with the rats, its just sad, sad situation.

I feel as though I am not appreciated or respected. Since the burglary I have literally had dozens of adopters be very rude to me and chew me out for not having rats for them as if its all about them. Which its not. Its actually all about me and my family. This all during the time I was shut down for months and had that posted clearly on my site. So this has made me not want to deal with the adoption process in general since no one is reading my site.

On a positive note I have had some very, very wonderful adopters who have gone out of their way to help me and have been very charitable as well. And I and my family are very appreciative of that.

Having said all of this, I am no longer breeding as much as I used to. So you will have to wait to get great rats. And its going to take me 20 X longer to post pictures about the babies I have because I can't get pictures like I used to, I may not post pix at all. I am obviously still keeping my site up to date. So there is no reason to ask me if a certain rat is available, they are clearly marked available or reserved, so that's easy to see, its just irritating to keep telling people this. The date I update is on the home page. You can't miss it.

I am normally never a negative person. And I am sorry to post this. However very few people seem to be understanding and patient.  I know no ones life is easy, but we don't have to make everyone else miserable too. Just everyone be nice. I am here to help you and you are helping me by taking the babies I am not keeping. I just have to be more careful now.

So the changes are that you wont be expecting pictures and I will not be breeding as much.

Camarattery is now mobile friendly! We are the 1st rattery to offer this. If you are using a smart phone you will now be able to avoid the big site and difficult navigation links with slow loading times. Everything is now automatically brought up on your phone using the all new mobile web application I have downoaded to my website.

Now you can take Camarattery with you where ever you go! Happy surfing!

Amy

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I thought I would try a new blog to update you on curent happenings. I hope you enjoy! This page is a spin off from my old news page. I have included all of the previous news updates from the old page here. See below...

Amy

3/15
We have not had a litter in 7 weeks, but we are happy to say we are back and we had a new litter born yesterday. Please email for reservations. Thanks for your patience while we had our scheduled time off.

2/6
February is our month off from breeding, and we are on a full shut down of the rattery. Right now its is no rats leaving the house and no rats entering it. Once our month off is over we will post new babies as they were from our January breeding's and they are weaning now. At that time we will also post pictures of the new rats. We will have a few babies that we need to adopt out from before we shut down. As for our site it is just kind of taking a rest as are the rats and our family. We are just enjoying some play time and rest and relaxation. Please feel free to email us for your spot on our wait lists for when March comes.

11/21
Cama Homecoming was born to Cama Christie Road X Cama King For A Day on 10/26/2008. She is Colorado's 1st ever down under dwarf. She is one of only two known in the world. For some reason dwarf and down under don't like to end up on the same animal. Down under are easy to get and so are dwarf, but both together is a rare find. Congrats to Cama Homecoming! Appropriately named as I have tried for years to get this combo and also I name all of my hooded rats after Green Day songs.


9/21
I am back from the California AFRMA show. I wanted to thank everyone for their hospitality! Thank you to Karen Robbins for training me for show judge and putting all of the time into that which finalized our club as an official AFRMA affiliate, so now we are locked in for that. As most of you know our club has been an AFRMA affiliate since June, but now we are official with a trained show judge. So now we can hold shows and have the AFRMA best in show affiliate club title, so that is very respectable. Anyone who shows a rat in Colorado at the ACRE events will receive the official titles approved by AFRMA. All show standards are as per AFRMA rules as we are their affiliate.

I also wanted to mention that Karen is a very, very precise and excellent teacher. I learned a ton from her. I will enjoy visiting the AFRMA shows on a more regular basis as well as any further training I can receive from Karen.

I also wanted to thank Ken and Connie of HGLR for their hospitality when I was in CA. They did a ton for me and the the club and saved us money in the process.

Also while I was there I wanted to thank Hilloah from RRLM, Amy from FAR and Brian from SHFR for the new rats! They are stunning! It was also nice to finally meet some of you as well as Rachel, Mikey and Debbie.

9/4
Colorado's 1st Mink Merle dwarf was born in my rattery. He was adopted to Donna at GRIM rattery in Los Vegas NV. Congrats to Donna! I still have not seen another Merle dwarf anywhere!

6/27

I also have new blazes in my rattery!  I had many adopters asking for blazes since they have not been able find a breeder for them here in Colorado in years. I now have some lines are are free of any known health issues that I am very happy to be working with! They are also very long lived! They have been worked with by well known breeders dating back ten years. So the health history is very well documented and traceable on NARR. It took me years of searching to find the perfect lines that I wanted to ship in!

6/8
I wanted to take a minute to post about something that is very saddening to me. I had adopted 2 rats to a breeder under a non breeding contract and that was not followed. 1 rat Cama Black Sheep a hooded down under was put under strict contract not to be bred for down under and I registered him with NARR with NO breeding rights. He has been bred. I posted about this below at the 1st of the year. At that point the breeder removed my prefix from his name and his pedigree off of her site because she was guilty. She then planned to breed him 2 times and has done at least one of those breeding's and the babies are almost 2 weeks old, DOB apparently is 5/28/2008. I want to remind you that they are illegally bred!

The second rat is Cama Back In Black. He was put under strict contract not to be bred for dwarf to this same rattery. He was bred just for dwarf and these illegal dwarf babies are posted to this breeders site, there are now 2 generations from him at this rattery, his children and grandchildren. I want to remind all of you that if you see these rats on any websites, this is a sad and illegal situation.

When I contract my rats, and in this case it was by the preference of this breeder that I contract her in this way... I expect that to be followed. Either by written or verbal contract. And either asking to breed the rats after you already have done it or not asking when contracted not to breed them is not honest. From a breeders perspective contracting is the safest way to make sure your rats are handled properly and the way you the breeder see's fit. And when another breeder cannot follow a contract that is really sad. To break contract just to cut corners and get fast results without the hard work does not benefit the animals involved in any way. It just displays dishonesty. And it's very bad Karma if you believe such a thing.

If you see my 2 rats in any pedigrees, these are ILLEGAL breeding's! These rats do not have the right to have been bred! Keep your eye out! I am not asking to much for any contracts or agreements to be followed. I am not a tyrant for thinking such a thing is bad. But I also will not sit there and watch these things go one right in front of me and say nothing.

Once I had posted about their breeding status in January and these rats were bred anyway, by this breeder posting certain babies from them is an effort and public display to make me look bad. When in fact the breeder who broke contract is in the wrong. And although I am not the revengeful sort, everyone should know what the situation is. As long as the breeder does the right thing and desists breeding my 2 family's of rats illegally like is happening right now, that will be the right and honest thing to do. This breeder actually asked me not to post anything on my site months ago when I approached her about the dishonest breeding of my dwarf (she said she wouldn't post anything either), well to post his litters and me just sit here and say nothing is not right. I am saying something now. Asking me not to say anything so you can get ahead and still adopt out the illegal babies you have bred and posted is not ok.

If the pedigrees on a certain site get shortened so that my rats are no longer posted there I will post the family members of that line after my rat's disappearance in the pedigrees so that the public knows what to watch for. This way we are all on the same page.

4/15
Colorado's very 1st born real genetic Satins were born this week here at my rattery! This is very exciting! It has taken me a long time to achieve this and a drive out of state 5 months ago to get the breeding stock. And now that the parents are finally breeding age I have a litter!  The baby Satins from this litter will stay here to make more for next time.

Satins are many times mistaken for rats who are not genetic Satins nor do they carry the gene. They are just shiny rats. Many who breed Rex mistake shiny Rex for Satin and they are not actual Satins. I have had those myself. All they are is a good quality coat but not a recessive Satin. Mine are genetic recessive Satins. All Satins are very heavily pedigreed and not in unknown stock at this time. There are not many of Satins in the rat community right now. The only way to say you have a Satin is to have a pedigree proving it. And in that pedigree they will not pop up out of no where, it is recessive so both parents have to at least carry the gene.

Here is an example of a Shiny rat that is a Rex, it is not a Satin. Just because the hair shines does not make it a Satin! This rat is one of my double Rex's.

 

4/9
Colorado's 1st Dwarf X Dwarf litter was born today! I have a beautiful litter of very small, fat and healthy dwarf babies.






3/21
I have posted a new litter, it is a very exciting one for Colorado! Thanks to Ratz Realm Rattery for making this litter possible! This is Colorado's very 1st litter of hairless dumbo dwarf rats! Here is the link:
http://www.freewebs.com/camarattery/rrlmastroxrrlmcold.htm
Now that we finally have a wonderful foundation to our dwarf hairless in the state it will not be a problem to make more! I already have a wonderful assortment of hairless carriers to breed them to! I have 10 hairless or hairless carriers to make that possible, they are all dumbo of coarse! So I am well on my way to having lots of pink piggies like everyone loves and has been asking for.

1/30
On January 4th 2008 Camarattery had the world's 1st genetic Rex dwarf born in our rattery! Her name is Cama First Blood. Fitting name! Congrats to the parents Cama Nick of Time (mom) and Cama Ruff Stuff (dad)!





1/4
Cama Back In Black & Cama Black Sheep are now officially registered with NARR with a non breeding status. This is per my verbal contract limiting the way in which they can be bred.

Update: I didn't catch Back In Blacks registration in time and he is not registered with NARR as unbreedable, his papers went through before I caught it, but he is contracted as non breedable. Not that this makes a difference since he cannot be bred as per the agreements myself and the adopting breeder have made.

1/1/2008
February of 2008 to Feb of 2009 is the year of the rat! Yay the rats need some recognition! The year of the rat does not start in January because the Chinese calendar does not coincide with the newer calendar we use today. So starting in February lets celebrate our rats!