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LtR - Gissele, Alohi, 'lole, PiliAloha, PiliLani, Fifi, Wikiki
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How to Make a Blonde Horde:
1. First start with your colony of female hairless stock breeders (most of which are RED beige/fawn mix - what I call
'Zoo Hue')
2. Mix it with equal number of females from your cobreeder in the same color scheme.
3. Add a 4-female colony dash of an unrelated group
4. Blend slowly, allowing for the girls to merge using the largest containment vessel you have
5. Stand back and wait for individual rats to settle.
(This part may take some time depending on if any of your ingredients are in heat)
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| Simone, Gisselle, Fifi, Alohi, Lani, 'lole, Pili?, Wikiki |
Individual rat personalities will vary the energy produced but if you have done this correctly, it will be almost impossible
for you to identify 75% of the ingredients without separating them by hand.
Verification tests for the Blonde Horde are as follows:
If you open the cage door and are immediately mugged - you might just have a Blonde Horde
If every single girl in the cage goes into heat and the flapping of their ears lifts the cage two feet into the air -
you might just have a Blonde Horde
and lastly, if you imploy the bathtub method of containment during cage cleaning and THIS is the result:
Congratulations, you have a Blonde Horde!!
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Individual pictures of the girls. Please note that surface skin scratches are normal for a hairless rat kept with other rats.
They don't have the fur to protect from normal ruff housing and normally they don't require anything other than a dob of
Neosporin.
I have plenty of cute little sock dresses they could wear, but they are nudists at heart.
Because there are so many girls in this group, I spread it out over two pages with some funny pictures and anecdotes
in between. It also allows for you to see the variety of RED in the coat colorings.
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Above and right - PX 'lole (means rodent in Hawaiian) pronounced ee oh' leh - Dumbo Fawn Hairless
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Above and right - PX Fifi - Fawn Rexed Dumbo hairless/carrier
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Above and right - ZT Gisselle Dumbo 'Zoo Hue' hairless/carrier (PiliLani is also in the picture to the right)
above and right - PX Konani [co naw nee]which means Bright in Hawaiian. But what it should mean is ONE BAD RAT. This girl
is reform school bad and she talks trash constantly. Squeak, squeak, squeak. See that nick on her ear? I am sure it was her
fault. Konani is a Standard 'Zoo Hue' rex hairless/carrier.
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Below is the cage that the Blonde Horde resides in. It is a custom made Martins Cage 4' x 4' x 2 1/4' with two full levels,
and added shelves. It was originally intended for the Prairie Dogs but because Phoenix Gate downsized her side of my hairless
line, I had to repurpose the cage. To clean it, I basically roll the thing end over end out the door to the patio. It is
not that it is extremely heavy, but it's bulky as hell and the wire spacing doesn't allow for a good finger grip.
The photo was taken when it housed 8 large males.
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