SITH Rattery Open House Parties,
RatsPacNW Shows, and
Other Social Events

SITH Star checks out cookies at a past SITH Rattery Party

It has become a bit of a tradition to hold a vegetarian friendly pot luck style rattery open house party every few months, to provide local rat lovers with an opportunity to get together and socialize with like minded people.  It’s an opportunity to share information, ask questions, show off photos and brag about our rats to an audience that is actually interested in listening!

The theme of the event may change, depending on the season, but those who have attended previous SITH Rattery events, will know that one thing never changes -- I do insist that you leave your own wonderful rats at home. This is to protect both your rats and mine from exchanging infectious diseases or parasites. I would further ask that you avoid visiting a pet store that sells rats, or another rattery on the same day as the Open House, and if you have sick rats at home, or have reason to suspect your rats may have recently been exposed to an illness, or have come into contact with wild rats, please let me know, so that we may discuss additional precautions to keep everyone's rats healthy and safe.   Unlike with other animals there are no vaccines to protect our rats from the many contagious and potentially lethal rat viruses.  These viruses are airborne and can live outside the body of a rat for 3 hours or more.  The most common source of these viruses is petstores that sell rats.  I have known people who just went into a petstore to buy supplies and didn't go anywhere near the rats, yet still brought lethal viruses back to their rats. 

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