About Ratty Corner

The History

Ratty Corner combines my two hobbies of web site creation and rat keeping. It began as a corner - the ratty corner - of our family website, which itself evolved from a printed magazine. Eventually it became my main focus, and gained its own url. Over the years I've added an insane number of photos and a lot of other information. Then Ratty Corner became the name of my ratabilia stand at local rat shows. It still remains in the form of some online gift shops, but I soon discovered that I was never going to make my fortune selling ratty goods.

Club Memberships

I've been a member of the Midlands Rat Club since 2001 and a committee member since 2002, although I am hoping to leave the committee in 2008. I am also a member of the National Fancy Rat Society, which I have now joined three times because I keep letting my membership lapse. Doh!

Moving Forward

The next incarnation as of summer 2008 is as a rat breeder, with the hope of producing top notch friendly and healthy rats, both pet and show quality. I am planning to breed for mink and cinnamon, with the advantage that this will also give me agoutis and blacks. Yum. I would like to breed dumbo rats too. I have picked up a rex boy by chance in my collection of prospective breeding males, but am not sure as yet whether he will be bred from. (Though he is my favourite snugglebum right now).

Annette