02/11/2026
Ratties in need! Such a brilliant cause to support this Christmas. Bacchus Residents Rescue do brilliant work, and such an amazing thing The Rat Wiki are doing!
🎁 Christmas Care Package 🎁
🎄A Fundraiser for Bacchus Residents Rescue 🎄
The end of this month marks a whole year since we were alerted to reports of domestic rats running free in some woodland on a local village social media group. We, along with a couple of friends, then spent a whole weekend trying to find them all. In the end there were 12 that we tracked down, 12 very friendly, seemingly well handled but also terrified innocent little rats that needed immediate safety and care.
To cut a long story short they needed A LOT of risky and quite expensive veterinary attention and so I sought help in the rat community not knowing how much I might receive at such short and immediate notice. I was worried for nothing though as this amazing community rallied together and helped those rats in the fastest and most compassionate way possible. We quickly managed to raise all the money over night we needed to get started on surgeries and within just over a week nearly all their veterinary bills were covered. The amazing efforts and generosity from The Small Pet Vet team also made this effort much less stressful and costly, so huge thanks to them as well.
I still to this day remain very humbled and thankful at how generous and caring everyone was in that whole situation and am still very lucky to have one of those rescue boys here with me, who reminds me every day, what a worthwhile thing it was we all achieved last year. All those rats got the proper care they needed and most of them went on to some of the best homes we could have wished for. There are still 4 of the gang alive and well today and those we have lost finished their lives very happy and really loved by both their new ratty friends and adopted owners. I couldn’t have wished for more. You all gave them their lives back that could have been stolen from them on that day they were abandoned.
As thankful as I still am with everyone’s efforts I always knew I wanted to pay that amazing act we experienced forward and turn it into something else in tribute to that time. I have thought a lot about this lately and decided I wanted to help some people who continually go above and beyond in helping rats on a day to day basis. These people spend so much of their efforts, time and money rescuing not just rats, but all little creatures that need their care. I continue to be amazed by it all and think this year they deserve some help from us all. This is the perfect time coming up to the one year anniversary of our rescue effort to help with one that goes on continually.
With that in mind I have chosen Bacchus Residents Rescue as the ones to focus this effort on. I have started a Go Fund me drive which you can click on in the link below. My plan is to raise as much money as possible for them and hopefully start by putting together an amazing Christmas care package to send to the rescue. This Christmas style hamper will be filled with all sorts of fantastic items they can use from quality food mixes, tasty treat boxes, critical care supplements, hammocks, essential cage goodies and healthcare items too. I will be using small businesses in the rat community to provide all these items to the care package. Any funds left over afterwards will be sent as a cash donation to the rescue as well. Every penny earned from this will go straight to Bacchus whether through purchased items for the care package or through the direct donation afterwards. I’d also like to add the names of anyone who donates to a special Christmas card that we can collectively add to and send that over as well to wish all the team a merry Christmas and thank them for their efforts.
I have already spoken to a few businesses who are generously providing donations towards this effort or have agreed to provide items at a discounted rate for the rescue which is so kind of them and will make a huge difference to the fundraising effort. If there’s any businesses out there that think they can provide to this effort in any way please message the page or email on [email protected] and I’d love to work with you on this.
Thanks so much to everyone who donates and let’s make this a special Christmas to for the rats over at Bacchus and help their amazing rescue efforts continue into the new year.
Click on the link below to donate:
https://gofund.me/fee5cbcae
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Care Package Contents so far:
1) 5kg Shunamite Style Rat Mix - Donated by Mischief Made
2) 5Kg Shunamite Style Rat Mix - £30 total
