Mainely Rat Rescue (MRR) is an organization incorporated as a non-profit in the State of Maine. MRR was founded in 2007 by four women who saw a need to save unwanted and often misunderstood, pet rats. Having worked and or volunteered for animal shelters and other rescues, they had been using their available resources individually and were re-homing abandoned pocket pets. They decided to rally together, combining resources and sharing contacts, and are now the proud founders of Mainely Rat Rescue.

Mainely Rat Rescue’s mission is to rehabilitate and find homes for surrendered or abandoned rats, as well as spreading awareness, education and support for this often misunderstood animal. While in foster care rats will be socialized with people and other rats, giving them the skills they need to make great companions. Proper food, housing and health care are provided to all rats until they find their forever home.

Future plans for MRR include becoming 501c3 in 2008 and one day expanding the rescue to include other small mammals, as well as having a shelter to house animals until they find their forever homes.

Mainely Rat Rescue is an all volunteer organization and does not receive funding from the state or any government agencies. MRR relies solely on donations and the revenue generated from our online store to support the animals in our care. All donations are greatly appreciated.

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E-Mail Problems: We have been experiencing some issues with email. If your emails to us are bouncing back, please copy and paste the error message along with your original email and send it to us at mrr.information@gmail dot com
Thank you for your patience and continued support and we apologize for any inconvenience.

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Announcements:

July 12, 2008: Thanks to some generous supporters, we have $155 of the $300 we need for our 501c3 application! Keep em coming, we are almost there!

Thanks to the follow people for their contributions!

Martha Fantasia

Lindsay Fortier

The Sumner Family

 

July 3, 2008: MRR has several VOLUNTEER positions available! Needed are foster homes, a fund raising committee leader, adoption counselors, and a coordinator for our southern region foster homes and adoption counselors. If interested, please email volunteer@mainelyratrescue dot org for more information.

July 2, 2008: 501c3!!! Dori from MRR is working diligently on the 21+ page application and information papers required by the state of Maine to apply for 501c3 status. The application fees for this are over $300 and we have to submit a check along with all the paperwork. Since we cannot use a credit card, MRR has to save up the money and we are hoping the public will help us with this. If you ear mark your donation specifically for the 501c3 application, we will send you or somerat you love, a free hammock as a thank you! The bigger the donation, the better the hammock design

May 26, 2008: MRR’s foster homes are full and over flowing. We regret that we cannot take in anymore surrenders at this time. Please send us an email and we can at least feature your adoptable pets on our available animals page. We will make another announcement when space opens up.

May 27, 2008: MRR now has neutered and spayed ratties available for adoption. Adoption fees for these rats are $10 each with a donation of your choice to help off set our costs.

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Community Bulletin Board:

*NEW* Rat Themed Children’s Party *Wicked cute!*

*NEW* Artist’s Corner *Contribute!*

7/18/08 *NEW* Ratutorials Web Comic *Laugh!*

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Rescue Stories from our Readers

June 20th 2008 By Nicole of Haverhill, MA

I knew that since Tooey was all by herself that she needed some friends. Rats are little furry friends that need to be in company with their own kind. I was unaware of this at the time I adopted her and then learned from many sources about this fact. I finally researched for a couple months to find the perfect place to adopt. I checked petfinder.com and even on craigslist. I finally chose the perfect place to find my new furry friends. That is of course mainely rat rescue. I searched for a while until I found the fruity babies. I thought how adorable. I knew I wanted my rat to have a black hood because Tooey is all white and I didn’t want them all to look too much alike. All of those babies were absolutely adorable and it did not matter which baby I got. The boys were VERY cute, I especially liked Kiwi but I wanted to have 3 girls. In the end I now have Pineapple and Nectarine. I was referred to Paula for the adoption and it was so quick and easy. Luckily, she lived only 15 minutes away so I could get them easily. On the day of the pickup I brought my Jeep Cherokee thinking that I could fit this massive cage in my car but unfortunately I did not. Thanks to Paula and her husband I got a carry case (WHICH I LOVE) to bring them home and Paula and her husband help me fit the cage in the car. I thank MRR, Paula and her husband for all their help and doing such a great thing by helping rescue ratties.
~Nicole
Necta & Pine

Necta, Pine and Tooey

May 20th 2008 By Thomasena of Gorham, ME

I adopted three adorable girls from you. Their names are Mercury, Venus and Luna. They live with my boy, Wade. They get along fabulously! They groom each other and sleep in a big pile in their hammock. They live in a big ferret cage with different levels and I love watching them run up and down the levels stashing their food. They also play together and popcorn around. They have brought me such joy in the short time I have had them and I wanted to thank you for the hard work you do! They would thank you if they could too; they seem really happy together. Thank you again!
~Thomi
Luna & Venus

Mercury & Wade

 

May 2008

We need stories! Please tell us about your rescue/adopted ratties. Even if not from MRR, we still want to hear about them and so do our readers. We will use one story per week, bi-weekly or per month depending on how many entries we receive. If chosen, your story will be featured right here on our front page for all to read. Your rescue ratty could be a star! All stories must be non-fiction and those we choose to use will get a free gift from MRR. Please include your name, address and phone number when submitting your stories, that info will be kept private. We will also need a photo to accompany your story, after all, we want the whole world to see how rewarding adopting and rescuing can be!

Please send all submissions to kim@mainelyratrescue.org

“Tonka” adopted January 2008

Read our previous Featured Stories HERE!