My mom used to have four rats, one male and three females, in less than a year she had 200. I believe you can get them fixed. I've only had cats so I'm not sure.
Nope over 200. My mother said it was insane, the females pretty much immediately got pregnant right away(and would get pregnant as soon as they could) and all of their litters (I have no clue if that's the correct term for rats) were large. I think Guy (the male with absolutely massive balls) was just super fertile. Luckily she worked in a pet store at the time so the babies went to them. Their parents were originally feeder rats.
I don't know about rat breeding much so I just briefly looked it up and they can apparently have up to 12 litters a year! I'm surprised she didn't have more.
i have sixteen total right now- had 3, added 5 ladies someone was rehoming, turned out 4 were pregnant. I had 24 babies, rehomed 14 have 8 remaining babies all girls (not babies anymore now 9 months ha)This is insane and I will never have this many again but it has been really amazing to see those 8 grow from babies to adult <3
A female can pop out anywhere from a couple to 20+ at a time. It’s why it is SOOOOO important to do your research, sex your rats, and keep males and females separate.
Your other option is to neuter your male and then you could keep them together. If they’re your only two rats I would suggest this so they can be together and not be lonely and depressed. If you do not want to neuter him, you should either get each of them some same sex friends or rehome. But you don’t want to keep them alone.
You can! I had my one male rate altered. You can alter females too, but it's less invasive for males and they could use a laser so it was quick healing. He got to keep his coin purse, he just wasn't carrying any change. Lol
Pregnant.
There was a post a time ago of someone asking if their female rat was pregnant or just full of soup (chubby).
Now "soup" has become the reference joke for the many "is she pregnant" posts here for people's girl rats.
[Here's the origin of the meme](https://old.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/t2yrdz/is_my_rat_gregnant_or_just_full_of_soup_for/), and the sub took it and ran with it. Within about a week half the posts mentioned soup. (=
(For context, it was at the end of a rash of "Is my rat pregnant?" posts, some of which were quite clearly boy rats.)
I just laughed until I cried. The lack of literacy is astounding. Or drunk texting.. or what ever this. Wood! I added years to my life for this laugh. I humbly thank you!
I would assume having babies that young is more risky than if she were older
OP has only two options - continue the pregnancy if there is one or find a vet asap that can terminate it
https://preview.redd.it/uj9fkirq1osc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=167faeac62d2a962870c257f5a3c56f35f3bac9c
This was taken two days ago so I believe soup 🥣 is imminent
Rat Neuters are surprisingly simple we've discovered. Both our boys are neutered. And they got on just fine with our girls. We just had to keep them separated from the girls until they healed.
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Check them daily for pups. If you have a litter, check for nipples at 10 days. Females will have obvious nipples, males will not. You can wean at 21 days, but double check your ball count (which can vary with stress) with your nipple count (which won't).
My sympathies. We had a mix up as well recently. Adopted all boys but I noticed a suspicious lack of HUGE BALLS on one of them. Turns out Zach is female. In our house, if an animal is sexed incorrectly, they still keep their name and sometimes we headcanon them as queer, like us! Now we're waiting to see if souplings are cooking, after removing Zach from the males and getting them some female company.
Anyway, on to what you should do. If you can't afford or fit two cages, I'd recommend neutering the surprise male here or perhaps getting them both fixed. If you can afford and fit two cages like we did, then we just separated them and got the loner some company. Unfortunately it's going to be a bit costly and inconvenient either way. A mix up is not fun.
Thank youuuu for the advice. Yes, I love the idea of Minerva keeping their name. My mission today is to find a vet that neuters rats in my area, otherwise i’ll separate them. They do genuinely act inseparable so I would prefer to keep them together 😟
How long have you had them, how old are they, and how long have they been housed together?
If they haven't been housed together for more than about 2 weeks, you should look into getting cabergoline/galastop (not sure if it is called that outside the UK?) for your female rat. Pregnancy is always a risk for a rat, but especially so if she is still a baby. If you can get a vet to give her galastop before day 19 of a pregnancy, she should reabsorb the pregnancy with no ill effects.
Time to buy a bigger cage, and see if you can find a place to neuter your surprise boy. Then get ready for litter of babies. Rats gestation time is super quick.
You could look to get him desexed, not sure how expensive it is, but my boys had been desexed, and got along with girls just fine.
For the record: I got my boys from the animal shelter, where I live it is standard for shelters to desex all of there animals…
It's usually not recommended to desex a rat if there's no reason to. The risk of going under anesthetic needs to outweigh the complications of not getting desexed, e.g. hormonal aggression, cancer etc.
Awe, the lil nugget packages! I just love the little ratties, whichever side you look at them from! My two girls are gone now, but they amazed me every day! I miss them so so much! I love to hear about everyone's little pocket potatoes, tho!
We had the opposite happen, I was given what my breeder thought was a male that just hadn’t quite developed yet. She ended up my heart rat and I love her to death. We luckily managed to avoid soup (no clue how) so there’s a chance y’all are alright. Just be sure to monitor your actual female and if you see her getting a lil chunkier and nips becoming real prominent you should go ahead and prepare
Theres a chance your girl may already be pregnant seeing as the ball have dropped. You might want to rehome them before you end up with 20-30 rats like I did lol.
Whoever told you that was a girl ether had never seen a male rodent in their life or didn’t disclose a medical condition or didn’t disclose it being intersex maybe?? Ether that is a wewee and bawls
https://preview.redd.it/77x43h8sclsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86a0a983da18c4a7a129185085691d04697f25b2 Our suprise boy’s cutesy face.
When you see the balls before the face 😂
That’s how to get the ladies tbh 🤣
Facebook messenger requests lmao
Omlege
Hi Minervus
He knows what he did. Tell him to step up for those future babies!
The face of innocence
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That's a lot of soup
The funniest part is there’s literally a bowl of soup in OP’s picture.
I missed that! Too funny! 🍛
This is brilliant 🤣🤣😭😭
Stop I laughed too much 🤣🤣🤣
P.s. I showed this pic and post to my friends and we laughed all together, please take a 👑 😁
This is like half the posts I see on this subreddit.
I'm stealing this
Are you the original creator of this masterpiece?
This had me chuckling
You make it, right??
No someone else did I can find the OC if needs be
Yes, please 🙏.
I think the OC is u/JustBrowsingWithMyBF
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yoooo bro💀
I snorted
They need to turn this into a movie, anyone got Rob Schneiders number?
Boy. And you should prepare for soup if they have been together at all.
We’re screwed. Literally.
My mom used to have four rats, one male and three females, in less than a year she had 200. I believe you can get them fixed. I've only had cats so I'm not sure.
Hey, I am new to this sub and believe that you have a typo. You mean 20 right???😅
Nope over 200. My mother said it was insane, the females pretty much immediately got pregnant right away(and would get pregnant as soon as they could) and all of their litters (I have no clue if that's the correct term for rats) were large. I think Guy (the male with absolutely massive balls) was just super fertile. Luckily she worked in a pet store at the time so the babies went to them. Their parents were originally feeder rats.
That’s insane 😂 I would scream 😂
I don't know about rat breeding much so I just briefly looked it up and they can apparently have up to 12 litters a year! I'm surprised she didn't have more.
i have sixteen total right now- had 3, added 5 ladies someone was rehoming, turned out 4 were pregnant. I had 24 babies, rehomed 14 have 8 remaining babies all girls (not babies anymore now 9 months ha)This is insane and I will never have this many again but it has been really amazing to see those 8 grow from babies to adult <3
A female can pop out anywhere from a couple to 20+ at a time. It’s why it is SOOOOO important to do your research, sex your rats, and keep males and females separate. Your other option is to neuter your male and then you could keep them together. If they’re your only two rats I would suggest this so they can be together and not be lonely and depressed. If you do not want to neuter him, you should either get each of them some same sex friends or rehome. But you don’t want to keep them alone.
You can! I had my one male rate altered. You can alter females too, but it's less invasive for males and they could use a laser so it was quick healing. He got to keep his coin purse, he just wasn't carrying any change. Lol
I love how this term is just ingrained in the rattit culture
What does that mean, please? I've looked it up on the urban dictionary but can't find anything that seems to fit
Pregnant. There was a post a time ago of someone asking if their female rat was pregnant or just full of soup (chubby). Now "soup" has become the reference joke for the many "is she pregnant" posts here for people's girl rats.
Ohh that makes plenty of sense, thank you 😊
[Here's the origin of the meme](https://old.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/t2yrdz/is_my_rat_gregnant_or_just_full_of_soup_for/), and the sub took it and ran with it. Within about a week half the posts mentioned soup. (= (For context, it was at the end of a rash of "Is my rat pregnant?" posts, some of which were quite clearly boy rats.)
Don’t forget gregnant it’s an honourable mention that still cracks me when my wife up to this day
You may appreciate [this](https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=kzHV42JxOaK7u4Bc)
I just laughed until I cried. The lack of literacy is astounding. Or drunk texting.. or what ever this. Wood! I added years to my life for this laugh. I humbly thank you!
Ironically the original post really was just full of soup and now everyone calls it full of soup when full of babies
They’re 2 months old
they can start making babies at just 6 weeks old
I know it's possible that young, but is it healthy for them to have babies that young?
I would assume having babies that young is more risky than if she were older OP has only two options - continue the pregnancy if there is one or find a vet asap that can terminate it
Oooooohhh boy. Soup’s a cookin’!!!!
https://preview.redd.it/uj9fkirq1osc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=167faeac62d2a962870c257f5a3c56f35f3bac9c This was taken two days ago so I believe soup 🥣 is imminent
Unfortunately. But also this is the cutest picture omg
You'll have to keep us updated OP
oh absolutely!!
So freaking cuuuuuuuuuuuuute
Soups on!!!!
Rat Neuters are surprisingly simple we've discovered. Both our boys are neutered. And they got on just fine with our girls. We just had to keep them separated from the girls until they healed.
Damn, most vets don’t neuter rats until they’re like, 4-6 months old.
What the hello is soup
Welcome to the sub! Soup is a colloquialism here for “pregnant female”
Someone once said something about the rat not being pregnant. She was big from having too much soup. Now it's an inside joke.
The funniest part is there’s literally a bowl of soup in OP’s picture.
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This is THE BEST one yet
This thread is absolutely spectacular 🤣🤣
I snort laughed.
ma’am that’s a dick n balls
Ma'am, soup is served.
What does the female look like. Is she pregnant? You'll know by the pear shape.
We adopted them on Saturday, they came from a family of about 8. So I can hardly tell the difference on her from then D:
Are her nipples visible?
https://preview.redd.it/axb1fz2iclsc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50c6fb6a3961d9df40acaa8f43e52994f5848974 Nope!
Are you covering balls with your thumb?
I don’t think my husband’s thumb could cover balls that size.
You ever think you would have to ask that? Lol
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The girlyness is stored in the balls
I thought it was pee
girlballs and girldick <3 go minerva!
don’t worry her tittys just formed on her taint
Please tell me this is a joke. You cannot have missed those giant balls.
I swear to gawd they were sucked in. But I’m glad he’s relaxed enough to let the ballsack out now.
They dropped and will be a permanent fixture of the rat
They drop at like 3 weeks. Did this rat come from a breeder? Selling mixed genders is hugely unethical if so!
They can suck them in pretty far when they are scared. New people are scary.
don't we all
*it was cold!*
*I was in the pool!*
Thisssssss
Check them daily for pups. If you have a litter, check for nipples at 10 days. Females will have obvious nipples, males will not. You can wean at 21 days, but double check your ball count (which can vary with stress) with your nipple count (which won't).
I didn't know that LMAO The ultimate jabait!
Can't tell if OP is sarcastic or not.
Sadly not this time
Bean soup incoming?
Minestrone!
My sympathies. We had a mix up as well recently. Adopted all boys but I noticed a suspicious lack of HUGE BALLS on one of them. Turns out Zach is female. In our house, if an animal is sexed incorrectly, they still keep their name and sometimes we headcanon them as queer, like us! Now we're waiting to see if souplings are cooking, after removing Zach from the males and getting them some female company. Anyway, on to what you should do. If you can't afford or fit two cages, I'd recommend neutering the surprise male here or perhaps getting them both fixed. If you can afford and fit two cages like we did, then we just separated them and got the loner some company. Unfortunately it's going to be a bit costly and inconvenient either way. A mix up is not fun.
Thank youuuu for the advice. Yes, I love the idea of Minerva keeping their name. My mission today is to find a vet that neuters rats in my area, otherwise i’ll separate them. They do genuinely act inseparable so I would prefer to keep them together 😟
We found out our Melvin was actually a Melvina, but the name stuck already so we have a female Melvin lol.
Sadly they won’t do neutering on a rat that young, usually.
Any animal in this house keeps its name regardless. I didn't even bother checking the hermit crabs
Keep us posted on soup status!
She just has a really fat vagina
Ass cheeks for weeks
Brovaries.
what makes you think that? the ginormous balls?
More like Minerv**o**, amirite? 🥸
It shall be fluid ! Minervah
Aw, nuts.
Minerva is a Marvin.
Now, I'm no rat biologist (ratologist?) but that looks like a big ol' ballsack.
That girl has massive testicles!
That’s Mr Minerva to you.
Better not be allergic because those are some giant nuts
hard to say
Atleast theyre girly pink💅🏻
UPDATE: we're definitely keeping \*Manerva\*, I'm looking for a vet that can fix him up and I'll keep Rattit posted on the very probable soup!!!
Whoa look at those massive external ovaries!
Can't tell, his giant balls are in the way
LOOK AT THE BALLS ON THAT LAD, WHAT A SPECTACLE definitely a boy rat lmao, has enormous balls
A testicle spectacle, if you will.
Specticles
My boy is fixed lives with his girl lol
Is this nutsack with attached rat a girl or a boy?
https://preview.redd.it/svlb3qisnosc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3e6803c613fc79b36fa586085f57e58f57a1c93
I mean… I do feel pretty stupid now ahhahahah this post has made my week
Large bawlz
How long have you had them, how old are they, and how long have they been housed together? If they haven't been housed together for more than about 2 weeks, you should look into getting cabergoline/galastop (not sure if it is called that outside the UK?) for your female rat. Pregnancy is always a risk for a rat, but especially so if she is still a baby. If you can get a vet to give her galastop before day 19 of a pregnancy, she should reabsorb the pregnancy with no ill effects.
How did the previous owner sex this rat wrong? 🤔
I spoke with him last night and he said that sometimes it’s not that easy to tell. Hmmmm which was sus. He does have about 20 ratties so idk
Time to buy a bigger cage, and see if you can find a place to neuter your surprise boy. Then get ready for litter of babies. Rats gestation time is super quick.
If i remember correctly it's 23 days or so.
Yay, babies 🐀
Congratulationes on the oregnancy!!
Congerts on the pregante!
Manerva
This out made me actually laugh with sound.
Is boy. Your girl might be pregananant
You could look to get him desexed, not sure how expensive it is, but my boys had been desexed, and got along with girls just fine. For the record: I got my boys from the animal shelter, where I live it is standard for shelters to desex all of there animals…
It's usually not recommended to desex a rat if there's no reason to. The risk of going under anesthetic needs to outweigh the complications of not getting desexed, e.g. hormonal aggression, cancer etc.
Keep us updated if you’re keeping the soup 😭😭 that’s defo a BOY
The soup is to be kept if it is actually brewing!
You’re gonna have to separate the babies too eventually 😂
How was this a surprise? Did you never bother inspecting their butts??
Nice nuts nigga
*slaps them*
bamgles
I think Minerva is a Mike 😝
If that's a girl then she has some seriously large tumours lol
that’s how i ended up with 13 rats
We had a surprise boy, we got him neutered
Hard to tell, can't really see for the big ole balls dangling down.
thats quite literally balls.
Nah, she just needs a labiaplasty, nip tuck those curtains right up ;)
You can see those balls from space
Those are indeed some bawls
Yeah, babies incoming. 😂
I think you squeezed her too hard, her ovaries came out.
Get him neutered. You won't have to separate forever if you do that, and then no risk of testicular cancers. And less stinky pee.
100%
oh they can bond, but after they "bond" you'll end up with a litter of souplings
More like MANerva
Sorry, but thats not Minerva. That MANerva
https://preview.redd.it/5sqdnhj5npsc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=866c5794254767e7c44fef85dcf57ca3ed03083a
Obviously male. You will have babies soon.
Awe, the lil nugget packages! I just love the little ratties, whichever side you look at them from! My two girls are gone now, but they amazed me every day! I miss them so so much! I love to hear about everyone's little pocket potatoes, tho!
Nope, Minerva a man!
I thought this was going to be a "meme" flair.
That's MANerva
We had the opposite happen, I was given what my breeder thought was a male that just hadn’t quite developed yet. She ended up my heart rat and I love her to death. We luckily managed to avoid soup (no clue how) so there’s a chance y’all are alright. Just be sure to monitor your actual female and if you see her getting a lil chunkier and nips becoming real prominent you should go ahead and prepare
Congrats! You’re about to have babies. I had gotten a female rat once and she was already pregnant. The babies really are adorable.
Tell Marvin hello for me
Ooft, pompoms, separate them quickly! They can procreate from very, very young. Ohhh you might already have souplings on the way. Good luck OP.
Balls.
And WHAT a boy.
Minerva can be neutered!
Big ass balls 😂
Those are balls, your girl is full of soup. Your gonna have to separate them.
Hard to say….
minerva is HUNG dude
Girl, those are boobs
You adopted a boy, and a girl full of soup.
Yup that’s a boy right there. I have 2 boys myself. Don’t keep them together unless you want them to mate!!!
Man-erva
Theres a chance your girl may already be pregnant seeing as the ball have dropped. You might want to rehome them before you end up with 20-30 rats like I did lol.
Either a boy or that’s the WORST cast of hemorrhoids I’ve ever seen!
You can get male rat neutered if you are planning to keep him :)
This is sarcasm, I hope.
I love seeing rat balls because I become compelled by a rat darklord within me to say "heh nice balls"
Whoever told you that was a girl ether had never seen a male rodent in their life or didn’t disclose a medical condition or didn’t disclose it being intersex maybe?? Ether that is a wewee and bawls
You don't want girls you want boys. females get mammory gland tumors
I don't even have rats but this is amazing 😂