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How to Adopt From Us Our Policy
Please be sure to read through our policy completely before contacting us!
Before the Adoption, Contact the Rattery: Please email your requests to daratter@hotmail.com if you are interested in adopting from a current or upcoming planned litter or for an available GARMCA rescue rat. You will be sent an adoption application to be filled out and submitted as honestly and completely as possible. When you are approved, you will be contacted and will be placed on the desired waiting list. Adopters must be serious about adopting and pick up and so must show significant interest or I will not place the reservation. All litters are reserved and place through waiting lists. Please be prepared to wait as we breed for the improvment of the rat as a whole and as a pet and not to fill pet orders. We will fill as many reservations as possible when we can so please be patient. Please be sure to read all of the policies before you contact us.
The Adoption Day: All adopters will be required to sign a nonbreeding pet only adoption contract. I am currently only placing rats on breeding contracts with those ratteries that are currently being mentored or that we are cobreeding with. Contact us for more information on this policy or if you would like to be considered for a breeder placement/mentoring. Rats that are bred on a nonbreeding contract will not be registerable by the NARR. Each litter born here is registered with the NARR to track health and temperament. Adoptions will be held in the Atlanta area at a predtermined location, date and time. For additional driving out of state, there is an extra adoption charge to cover driving costs.
Once you have them home: All adopters must quarantine their new rats in a separate air source location for the minimum of three (3) weeks unless you currently own no other rodents. This is a precaution that every rat owner should practice to prevent outbreaks of viral and bacterial illnesses. Please contact us if you have any questions reguarding proper safe methods of introduction.
For more information on the proper method of quarantine,
please email me and read the RSA's Quarantine Guidelines.
Phoenix Gate rats are sold as pets to approved homes only. These are never be used as food or to produce food for another animal. NO FEEDERS.
Rats are sold in same sex pairs unless it can be proven that your currently own the same sex or a suitable altered rat.
Babies are $20 each and sold on a pet only adoption contract. Babies will only be available to go to new homes only if they are at least five (5) weeks of age.
We ask that any rat that is adopted out through Phoenix Gate Rattery is to be returned to us in the event that the rat is no longer wanted or you are not able to care for it. Additional special policies apply when a pet only rat is bred either on purpose or accidently.
For those interested in BREEDING or SHOWING rats: Currently we employ restriction on certain lines for various reasons and it is important that these rats are not ever bred. However, some lines are available for qualified breeders and will require a breeder's contract to be signed and adhered to. We also provide mentoring for new breeders (usually within our state) given our availability at the time as we dedicate a lot of time, energy and resources to these new breeders. We also currently do not breed specifically towards show rats though we do breed towards the RSA's standards and for the 'whole' rat. Thus we do sometimes have show rats available.
*** At this time the southeast states do not have rat shows nor do we have a show-based rat club ***
