A Colorado Blue Rat Breeder, A Colorado Rattery
A Colorado Rat Breeder. Camarattery, Breeding Dumbo, Dwarf & Standard Rats In Dark American Blue, Russian Blue, Wheaten, Burmese, Siamese & Pearl Merle. Breeding Self, Hooded Down Under, Blazed & Marked Patterns. Satin, Rex, Hairless & Harley Coats.
12/15/04 - 3/23/07
MJM Mary Jane Cama
Mary Jane is my favorite rat. She is now gone! She was sadly put to sleep due to an impacted molar that got terribly infected and was not getting better after 4 months of treatment. She was a strong rat and very well could have lived another year, but the infection began to take over her entire face. Fortunately tooth impactions are not inherited, it comes from a rotting tooth.
All of my beloved American blue rats come from MJ. She is the sweetest rat I have ever seen. She gave me 3 perfect litters. Her kids are, Whimsical Beauty, Star Dust, Cama Ziggy and Cama November. Whim and November now have babies of their own as well! I will always have her line in my rattery as long as they all stay sweet and healthy like they all are. She has the perfect large body and bone structure with that big blocky head I love. So do her kids and grand kids and great grand kids. I feel fortunate to have her and her many family members, and I have very tender feelings for them. My plans with her line is to improve on them and keep them very much the same at the same time. You just can't do a whole lot better that my M.J and her babies. But I will continue to line breed that family so that I can concentrate her awesome genes. M.J is also my logo. And my best friend. She will never leave my rattery or my heart!
Update: MJ has 5 generations of babies at my rattery! Never once has there been a tumor or any other health issue in her line.
Her latest generation of family is Cama Freestate, Cama Insight and Cama Sweetest Perfection, Cama Strangelove, Cama Everything Counts and Cama Rumours. They were here to meet MJ before she died, they were 7 and 8 weeks old when she left us.
I will miss my MJ! She was my bestest rat ever! She was here with me from the beginning of all my current lines. She was here through it all, she was always here by my side raising all of the female babies with her loving mentoring way. She was and had always been the #1 Alfa rat in my colony every day of her life. She will be sadly missed.
Peter Parker
MJM Peter Parker Cama
Peter Parker was an American blue dumbo. He was Mary Janes first hubby. Almost all of my American blue babies came from him as well. He is no longer with us. I dearly miss this big boy! His son is Cama Boo.
Cama Boo
Cama Boo
Boo is no longer with us. He has passed on. And is is sorely missed. Boo was the son of MJ and Peter Parker. Boo's children were Cama November, Cama Ziggy and Cama Star Dust. I miss you boy!
Cama Ziggy
11/4/05 - 6/07
Cama Ziggy
Ziggy is a very sweet boy! He is MJ and Boo's son. He has left us and will will dearly miss him! He died due to an infection in his mouth and head that the vet worked so hard to fix, but it finally took over. Ziggy's children are Cama Hendrix, Cama Tragical Beauty, Cama I Put A Spell On You, and Cama DragonFly. Ziggy had 2 beautiful litters and as usual he is a perfect self which is normal for my rattery and for that line. Ziggy now has grand children and great grand children in my rattery.
Ziggy spent most of his life in the loving home of Sarah who was always there for him and loved him every second! Sarah was the best ratty mom you can find for Ziggy, and he knew it too! Ziggy was the most squishy, lovey personable rat in the world.
We will both miss you buddy! You were the best ratty friend a person could ever have!
Cama November
Cama November
November is MJ's daughter. She is now retired and living in her retirement home. She gave me a beautiful litter! Her daughter is, Cama I Put A Spell On You. November is one of the most special rats I have have the pleasure of having.
Cama Runner
Cama Runner
This is Cama Runner. Some of you may remember him as I used this picture on my home page. He was a PEW Rex. And a very good looking one at that. He was sooo sweet and a cuddle bug!Runner is no longer alive as he died of Mycoplasma from a rescue animal I brought in. I also lost his brother from another litter from that myco issue. They were identical except his brother was a velveteen. That will teach me to do rescues! Ha just kidding! I respect those who can do rescues, but this showed me it is not a good idea for a breeder to do them. Runner was only bred one time and that was to a hairless named Sweetie Peetie. They only had one baby. That was Cama Honey Bunny. Sweetie didn't lactate with that litter so Mary Jane raised Honey. Honey had babies of her own they are Cama Creedence and Cama Clear Water. I am trying to find pictures of Runners parents (I coulda' sworn I took pix!) Chocolate chip (an agouti American Berk velveteen) and Snow Ball (a PEW Rex). That was before I had a digital camera. So I'll have to do some digging. This is my longest line of Camarattery rats. This line isn't going any where! I will always have them here. Although I can't keep them all! All Rex rats in my rattery are from Runner. I will not mix any other Rex gene with this line because they are very rare in that when you breed them as doubles they do not loose their hair like all others do.They get tighter thicker curls.
Cama Honey Bunny
Cama Honey Bunny
Honey Bunny was a very special girl as I mentioned before she was the only baby born to her father Runner. If I wouldn't have gotten my honey I would not have been able to continue my Runner line which was the best rex line I have ever seen. Most of the time a rex will have rex babies but Runner had Honey a velveteen(Honey could have been a bad rex?). But Runner had one of each with his parents. Honey gave me 2 beautiful litters. The 1st litter I did not keep any but this last litter she had Cama Creedence and Cama Clear Water. The father to those babies was RES Darryn. Honey was one of the sweetest rats ever! She is now in her retirement home with several other females to grow old with!
TRM Minnie Cama
TRM Minnie Cama
Minnie was my 1st really well pedigreed rat that I got after I got back into breeding on 04. She has a 25 generation pedigree. I actually bought her at a pet shop because I felt that such a pretty baby shouldn't be at a pet shop worrying weather or not she will find a good home. So I bought her and fell in love with her. Later I found out that TRM had sold her to the pet shop and I got her pedigree from that breeder. Minnie and her family have the strongest immune systems I have here in my rattery. She had one of the sweetest personalities I had seen in a rat. She is so loving and playful! She is always at the door ready to come out, and she passed that onto her babies. Minnie is the mother to Cama Vivian, Cama Grace and Cama Cash(now living with Cloe with a strict non breeding contract), And Cama Trouble. She is the foundation to my Siamese line and my Russian blue, and Russian dove line as well.
Cama Vivian had a litter! She had 5 Siamese Burmese and 8 black eyed Siamese! These are the 1st of their kind here in Colorado! They are F2 from the UK! So this should make ole' Minnie proud! She has a lot of grand children now and some with a lot of "clout" in the community!
Update: Minnie is now in a loving retirement home! She now lives with Whimsical Beauty in Loveland!
Cama Vivian
Cama Vivian
What can I say about Vivian! Well words cannot describe my feelings for her. She was #1 the most beautiful rat I have ever seen! She was also one of the the sweetest. She got that from ole' Minnie. This is the reason I chose Vivian to be the mother to the 1st litter of black eyed Siamese and Burmese in the state of Colorado. Vivian is a very well pedigreed rat with amazing documentation of her health and lineage. But her babies, as planned did out do her! Not only do they have her beautiful personality and body but also her beauty, but better.
Vivian is doing very well still but she is still young! She is now in her retirement home with Verna. And I know she is getting very well spoiled. I really miss her! But I do get updated too!
Update: I kept 2 of her babies and adopted out the rest as non breeders. They all went with non breeding rights. Vivian had 13 babies all were Siamese Burmese or black eyed Siamese.
Update again: One of Vivian's babies Cama John had a litter. And Black Eyed Siamese were included in that litter. 2 of which are now starting a BES line at RRRA rattery in Arizona along with litter mate Cama Joe Bean who is a Russian blue Irish. The rest of that litter was sold with non breeding rights. RRRA was given breeding rights according to my strict breeding contract.
Cama Tragical Beauty (AKA Tragic)
1/31/06 - 11/12/06
Cama Tragic
I choose this picture because I think it shows how loving a mommy she was. I lost my Tragic in labor on her second litter. I hurts me so to see her gone! In this picture she not only had her babies but she also lovingly accepted a litter from another mom in need. So she had 2 full litters here and loved every minute of it! You can see the contentment and joy in her face.
Tragic was the daughter of Whimsical Beauty and the grand daughter of Mary Jane. I did not keep any babies from Tragic because they were the wrong pattern, but her family still lives! I will always remember how wonderful and beautiful she was and keep her close to my heart.
Aww this picture saddens me!
Cama Carlene
Cama Carlene
Carlene is still doing well and now in her retirement home with Marilee and Carlene's daughter who looks just like her. Carlene is the daughter of Cama Vivian and Minnies grand daughter. Carlene was proud to mother Colorado's 1st litter of black eyed Himalayan and Burmese Himalayan's. All of which were self's, proving Carlene was herself a self patterned rat. So I did breed out that Irish that came from Ole' Minnie.
Usually a female Siamese is not as dark pointed as a male, but Carlene far exceeded any male born here in my rattery as far as her intence color. She passed this onto at least one female black eyed Siamese in her one and only litter she had for me before I retired her. Carlene's father, RG St. Jimmy is 100% UK blood. She is 50%. Her litter was an incredible 75% UK blood. Her father Jimmy is the key to my dark Burmese and Siamese, as he carried no American or UK ruby eye dilutions keeping my Burmese and BES as dark as they come. His line will continue to keep these eye dilutions out of their blood as long as I can possibly handle it. Which shouldn't be hard to find out crosses since my self blue line doesn't carry any eye dilutions at all. I have worked on making self Burmese carriers all year so I can add them back in several generations down the line. So I have no plans to let my Burmese or BES get that diluty color that has been the experience here in the US in many cases. Carlene may have been retired to a life of play, but her father and hubby/uncle Long View who is also 100% UK blood have no plans to ever leave my rattery. They will be added into the line whenever I can to keep the rich dark color there but also only when I can keep my Inbreeding ratio low. No other ruby eye Siamese will ever be added to this line. Only the pure unaltered black eye gene!
I will miss Carlene but her legacy remains.
PNS Beau Duke Cama
8/2005 - 12/28/2006
Beau Duke(Dwarf)
He was born 8/2005 and was adopted by WCRR in late 05. PNS his breeder directly adopted him to WCRR in Arizona. WCRR bred him to WCRR Blackie a black berkshire female with a nice pedigree, health and confirmation producing a litter of dwarf carrier babies. WCRR decided to stop breeding when the babies were 5 weeks old and I myself drove to Arizona to get Beau, 2 black berk daughters and his son a hooded with head spot Siamese male and 2 other rats. Later I bred his son to his daughters producing Colorado's 1st ever dwarf rats. So every dwarf rat in Colorado is a direct decendant of Beau. I never got a litter of babies from Beau himself!
I chose this picture because one week after I went to Arizona to get Beau, while he was in quarantine with his son Luke and WCRR Peanut who I also got from WCRR, Peanut disemboweled Beau, but the little booger was fighting to live. In this picture you can see on the right hand side the scar and scab from his injury above his hind leg. Yes he healed but he was never the same. I tried to breed him with every female in my rattery and either because they had never seen a dwarf or because they sensed something was wrong they too wanted to kill him. Fortunately his children were here to produce dwarf's for him.
In late December 2006 he started breathing heavy over night and got weak and his body started failing. He should not go this soon, but after all he has been through, his mind is sharp but his body just can't do it anymore. He has no signs of illness, his respiratory tract is healthy no problems with his lungs, it's just time for Beau to leave me! I spend great deals of time coddeling him to make him feel better and be loved, he isn't in pain but he is scared. He will leave me loved and appreciated. He is still sleeping in his nest box with his son Luke and his grand children and the BES and Burmese where he feels comfortable. He is dreaming of all of the love he has had in his short life. Update: He died on 12/28/2006.
I'll truly miss you my baby!
I will always remember how every time I fed the boy's you ran up to me for a peanut so you could take it down stairs and eat it before the big boys ever knew there was food to be had. You were never at a disadvantage because of your small stature! You were just to fast to catch! At least for the other rats, for me you were always there when I wanted you!
Goodbye my love!
Cama Folsom
Cama Folsom
Folsom was bred one time and retired to a life of play. He was adopted out young, but he left such a sweet impression on me that he will be dearly missed in my rattery. He was a very playful and mellow ratty. He was the very 1st black eyed Himalayan in the state of Colorado and a dumbo to boot. He is a great marked self and has great confirmation and perfectly sweet temperament as well. He was the 1st rat in Colorado to breed to a dwarf rat giving me a litter of dwarf and dumbo carriers. His line will continue for a long time to come. His children are Cama Danger and Cama Spellbound. Folsom is the son of RG Long View and Cama Carlene.
Cama Basket Case
Cama Basket Case
Blasphemous Rumours. She is the the foundation to all of the Rex rats in my rattery. Basket Case is the grand daughter of Cama Runner, and she looks just like him. She is a double Rex and always had a thick coat that is super curly. She gave me one great litter and was retired young to a life of play. She is the mother to Cama Everything Counts and Cama Rumours. She is a dumbo carrier so all her babies in my rattery are dumbo. She is a very sweet and lovey female who never has a bad day it seems. She is just right all the time. She just wants to please you. I will really miss her! She is the daughter if Cama Creedence and Cama Clear Water. They were the children of Cama Honey Bunny. Basket Case is a homozygous Rex, meaning this line of rats can be bred Rex, to Rex and never will they loose their hair, they just stay curly.
Cama Poprocks
Cama Poprocks
Cama Poprocks will be dearly missed in my rattery. She had one litter for me and I retired her as well. She is one of the biggest females I have seen and she is the only rat I decided to keep based on nothing other than her personality. As a baby and adult she was so funny and pop corny! She just wanted to hop around and play and love and get attention and give you attention. Even though she is a Irish and that is not my favorite pattern I knew she carried self and had all the personality to make up for any patterns that I didn't' need. She is the daughter of Cama John and Cama Sara. Sarah is the daughter to TRM Minnie. Poprocks was bred to her father because he is a self and both rats carry Russian blue and he is a self also. This gave me 4 Russian blues and many selfs. John himself is HUGE rat and the entire litter followed that trait. Their litter produced some of the most perfect self babies with not a white hair on them. They are just perfect. Poprocks not being in my rattery leaves me with a huge hole in my heart especially during play time. But she was adopted to a very special person who will do nothing but love her for the rest of her days. I really mis that sweet pretty girl! Poprocks children are Cama Unchained Cama Rusty Cage.
Cama Holiday
2/18/07 - 8/13/07
I went to check on Holiday today, she was due to have a litter. I found her dead. She was all stretched out as if in the middle of a contraction, their was a tad of blood at her vent. She apparently died at the beginning of labor and I wasn't there to help her, or see that there was trouble. Its not my fault I know, and its bound to happen when you breed, but when I never does and now all the sudden it finally happened this is a shocker. She was such an awesome girly. One of the best I've known. Her babies were with Rumours and were really excitedly anticipated by myself. Her unborn son was the husband to Cama Road To Acceptance. And now Acceptance has no mate and is getting older and needs to breed. This loss is great and the mom will be sorely missed! Words cannot explain my emptiness. I just found her not more than two minutes ago.
Cama Insight
Cama Insight
Insight is the son of Cama Winkey (Ziggy and Novembers son) and RRRA Mystery Cama is his mom. Insight is now retired and living with his new family and momma Eileen. He is one of the sweetest rats ever, so mellow and willing to please. He was the perfect rat to carry on my long line of blues from MJ's family. He is a very loved and appreciated rat and will be missed here in my rattery. I bred him one time and his children are, Cama Love In Itself, Cama Blackened, Cama Enter Sandman, Cama Orion and Cama Nothing. I kept alot of his children and they are dearly loved and needed to continue the blue self dumbos in my rattery. Sandman and Blackened and Orion are my very 1st silver self dumbos and they are dearly cherished and will start a new line of cool new colors here as well. I have big plans for them including breeding them for Burmese, Wheaton and agouti as well as of coarse, silver and blue and Russian blue and Ivory. They will be bred into these lines to out cross them and bring in unrelated blood and make them better selfs. This way my rats will not be to closely related. His kids are all as cute as a button! I was really impressed with Insight's entire litter!
Cama Shoot To Thrill
Cama Shoot To Thrill
Cama Shoot To Thrill AKA Thrill is one of my most memorable retired rats. She won my heart and also the 1st place in the Colorado Rat List photo contest. She is the most perfectly marked hooded I have seen to date. She gave me to litters and is the mother to Cama King For A Day. To this day all of my well marked hooded rats come from her line. Every time I get a good hooded rat in my rattery, I know it was related to Thrill. And she is the reason my hooded rats are what they are today. I have nothing but respect for Thrill. She is retired and living out her life with Elisa.
Cama High Voltage
Cama High Voltage
High Voltage is a black dwarf Berkshire. She has broken 2 records here in Colorado. 1st she is the 1st dwarf female ever born in our state and 2nd she was the 1st dwarf in Colorado ever to have a litter. She gave me a wonderful litter that carried dwarf and those babies were Cama Nick Of Time and Cama Ruff Stuff. When bred together they produced the 1st self dwarf rats born in Colorado. Voltage is a very sweet wonderful girl that is missed in my rattery, but she is retired to a life of love and play with Elisa. I will never forget this girl! She is the 1st dwarf I have let leave my rattery. But she lives with her sister Thrill and mom Daisy and aunt April, so she is one happy lady.
Cama Inject The Venom
Cama Venom
Venom is a very sweet girl. She has a wonderfully mellow personality. She had one litter for me and produced one baby. She was retired and adapted to the same person who has her grand mother High Voltage. and Great grand mothers April and Daisy. So she is living with her family. I will never forget her!
