Gingerbread Rats

14/02/2025

I'm obviously biased but I can't recommend Dawn at Tail & Tuck Hammocks enough. She's an amazing pet home of mine and so creative, if you're looking for new hammocks please do check her out. I'm currently decking out my cages in her gorgeous hammocks. Pics to come when I've set everything up, but you can see product pics on her page now.

14/02/2025

I just want to say a massive thank you to any pet homes that have been especially patient with me while I've been moving house and my brain has been melting down. As everyone knows it's always a stressful time and due to the timings I've effectively had to move house twice in 5 weeks, still deal with my 9-5 job as well as deal with some amazingly timed health issue flare-ups alongside still dealing with my ADHD medication being on a shortage. I'm slowly getting there, I can see the light. Normal service (emails, social updates etc.) shall resume shortly.

REMINDER: I don't respond to messages here, I need to set up my messenger to auto respond - please email me at [email protected] if you have any rattery queries.
Thanks.

28/01/2025

I just can't with this pic. Two Gingerbreads in one of my pet homes 💗

06/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! The end of 2024 was a little challenging for me as I was horrifically ill with the flu, moving house and then just about being well enough to go away for a couple of days over the new year. I've been terrible in the last month of updating so here's where I'm currently at with the rats...

I'm currently choosing my keepers from the current litters from Anise and Lakritsi. The available kittens to home will be mostly black (and there's a lovely cheeky choc dumbo buck in the mix too) and these will be offered out to my mail list ideally by next week when I know how many I'll have available. Any not taken by my list will then be offered here and applicants will need to complete a homing form.

So far I'm happy with my likely keeper picks as they will be assets for me in developing my Quicksilver and Lilac lines moving forwards. The pic below is of my keeper British blue dumbo doe from Lakritsi's litter, I'm hoping she'll be an asset in adding dumbo into some lines which are currently not available in dumbo.

Also I just want to thank those homes that have massively helped me out by looking after some of my rats while I move house. I'm currently in a bit of limbo while I wait to move into my actual house at the end of the month and I really couldn't have done it without some great people helping me out with some rat sitting, it's so very appreciated, thank you.

23/11/2024

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20/11/2024

I was always very much a Twitter person over Facebook back in the day. I say back in the day because I was on it back in 2016/17 until recently on a personal account and found it so good to just put info out into the void and I find that style of platform really easy to follow and manage. I slowly stopped using Twitter once it got sold so I'm happy that Bluesky appeared as it's basically Twitter 2.0 but with much less of a Musky presence. If you exist there and want to follow some rats, I'll absolutely be posting more there as time goes on.

Gingerbread Rats | UK | NFRS member Insta: Give me all your rats 🐀🏳️‍🌈 Owned by -summers.bsky.social

20/11/2024

I just thought I'd update my website with a better overview of one of my breeding aims - Lilacs, and why I'm travelling the Lilac path. It's a long process but I'm happy with where I'm currently at as I now have some minks in my cages and it looks like I might have been able to achieve Lavender out of my current litters with Anise and Rits. I'm really optimistic for 2025 and what it could bring.

Breeding for Lilac What is Lilac? The National Fancy Rat Society Standards note that a lilac rat is "a pinky dove grey throughout, from tips of fur to skin, blueish tinge a fault. Foot and...

15/11/2024

Rits is being such a good mum with her 3 day old beans.

13/11/2024

Right on time! After I initially thought Lakritsi and Anise didn't get pregnant, they proved me wrong and only really started showing around day 17/18. Today on day 22 I came home to two litters and both mum's doing well. Anise has 12 beans and Rits has 10. Now we watch and wait and hope these beans thrive. Pics of Anise and her babies as she's much happier to be checked right now.

Please note: I won't know about availability on kittens just yet because these beans have only just been born so please don't ask here.

12/11/2024

Keeping my fingers crossed.

10/11/2024

Not going to lie, I'm in love with my Zephyr Rat Stud American Mink does. So far I've still got two does to name but here's Zephyr Laffy Taffy. Taffy is such a sweet doe, I'm absolutely smitten.

08/11/2024

If you want to see your name and rats in Pro-Rat-a, the NFRS magazine, please do send in a submission!

04/11/2024

It's an exciting day here at Gingerbread HQ, the Quicksilver project is definitely going to move forward in 2025. I already have resident Quicksilver bucks in the house but today I welcomed some absolutely adorable American Mink does thanks to Zephyr Rat Stud. This line of American Mink will also give me some additional options for the Lilac project I'm also embarking on. I'll pop some photos up when they've settled in.

03/11/2024

It's a working weekend for me but I'm very grateful to have a friend that took 2 of the Gingerbread gang to the LSCMRC show yesterday. I wasn't expecting anything to be honest, especially with only 2 entries, but I was pretty chuffed with newly-named Pumpkin Spice's (Kinny's) results.

Gingerbread Pumpkin Spice (champagne doe kitten)
🥇Best Self
🥇Best Opposite Age
🥉3rd Supreme Challenge

30/10/2024

I love seeing photos of Gingerbreads in their new homes. Thank you to both pet homes for sending these and letting me share. Gingerbread Forrest snuggles up with a treat in one pic and Gingerbread Cilantro is exploring in another.

24/10/2024

Edit: A home has been found.

Hello everyone, it's been a bit quiet here at Gingerbread HQ but lots of things are going on behind the scenes.

First off, apologies to anyone that has messaged me on messenger here, I hate the app, I forget about messages (isn't ADHD amazing) and I don't get all the message alerts so please do email me if you need to ask anything.

I've been away in America and now I'm back I'm still seeking a home for a pair of bucks. They are 1 x champagne (Gingerbread, dob: 03/08/24) and 1 x dove agouti (Beeghos, dob: 28/07/24). They are ready to go now so please do email me at [email protected] if you'd like more info and pictures with a view to adding them to your group. Homing them is my top priority and I'm happy to home them to any location if you collect or anywhere in Hertfordshire or Oxfordshire if you need my help in getting them to you.

Why Oxfordshire you might ask? Well, I've recently taken a new job and it's in Oxford. This means that there's going to be a few changes for Gingerbread as we'll be relocating to Oxfordshire at the end of 2024. What does this mean for homes? Simply that I'm expanding the areas that I can home to! I will still be visiting Herts approximately every 5 weeks, so homing kittens and any pet homes that currently take my rat mix will still be able to do this with minimal changes and I'll also still be attending some rat shows local to Herts too.

When will I next have kittens available? As I won't be moving for a little while yet, I've already paired up a couple of my does. I'm having to be conscious of their ages right now and I don't feel happy to leave pairing until we've moved and they're possibly what I'd consider slightly too old for a first pregnancy. This means that if the pairings take I may have kittens to home in January. Please do watch this space.

21/09/2024

It looks like I have some kittens from Della's litter to home along with some beautiful marked Beeghos kittens.

From this point on I'll no longer be keeping a waitlist because to be honest, it's been more hassle than it's worth and people haven't been updating me which is problematic when I need to work out which kittens are going where. Moving forwards I'll be taking interest when I have litters available and not before so if you'd like to home my kittens please keep an eye on my socials. Any current homes will be notified first by email as I will prioritise family groups.

If you'd like to home kittens that will be ready to go soon please reach out and complete a homing form and I'll come back to you asap.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sew5B4kTpIY9C-Ya4YDQXtLT3wNZPGg80IR_Bgx8adE/edit?chromeless=1

21/09/2024

I can't believe these kids are one year old now. Time just flies but they've all done me so proud in just a year.
Trey is my first NFRS pet champion, Babycham is a NFRS silver varieties champion and Jackie has delivered me a wonderful litter that contained my girl Lulu. Della is an absolute ridiculous liability and crazy girl giving me two litters - one to start my lilac lines from scratch and the other providing me with two chocolate buck keepers and she can be easily bought with a little duck treat.
While Fudge isn't owned by me, he still lives in the same house as he's kept by my housemate and I'm hoping that he'll stud my next litter as he's such a lad and the spit of his dad.