AIMS

- To operate a multi rattery breeding programme 

- To breed for the widest genetic diversity by managing a maternal line bred to a new buck each generation, thus maintaining 0% inbreeding coefficient

- To raise rats in a loving home environment who are interacted with and socialised to as high standard as possible before being placed aged 6-8 weeks into their new families.

- To offer an alternative to buying rats from pet shops or those farming rats/ breeding aimlessly

- To build our community of rat keepers when placing our surplus kittens into strictly pet homes. Offering lifetime support.

- To promote a high standard of welfare among our keepership and beyond

- To assist with rescuing and rehoming all rats in need where possible

- To encourage those breeding rodents as feeder items for reptiles to use a more suitable species such as Multimammate Mice, Mastomys natalensis. We deem rats to be a highly inappropriate choice due to an estimated 100,000 being kept as companion animals just like hamsters, rabbits, cats or dogs. Rats have been domesticated for hundreds of years and are interactive and loving pets.