Runatun Liv, was born on the 23rd of October 1997. She was a black based version of silver fawn rex. Liv's mother was actually a Wistar female called Ladgun Svanvit and her father was Runatun Mercurius. "Liv" is Swedish for "life".
Runatun Liv, was born on the 23rd of October 1997. She was a black based version of silver fawn rex. Liv's mother was actually a Wistar female called Ladgun Svanvit and her father was Runatun Mercurius. "Liv" is Swedish for "life".
The photo to the right shows Liv, hiding on my bed, or rather, she just found a nice spot to lie and rest between her crazy runnings around... I still let out my rats on the bed, which I think is a good place for my rats run around since I don't have a warm apartment.
Here she is, just planning a new plan - how to attack my flowers, or hide under the pillows so she can gnaw holes in the fabric undisturbed... Liv was a very nice tempered pet rat, really nice and lovely. She sort of an unkept look, that none of my other rats have had, I don't know why. Her whiskers are also rather straight, for a rex rat.
One strange thing with Liv is her colour. She was of course a bit pale in colour, compared to the rest of my silver fawns, but she looked more like a chocolate based silver fawn than a black based silver fawn. She must have been a black based silver fawn since her mother didn't have he gene that gives chocolate. I've always gotten quite nice coloured silver fawns when mating a silver fawn with a Wistar lab rat, with one exception. That was Charon, a daughter of Trinovantum Queen Anne of Scots, my best coloured silver fawn rat ever.
In this photo of Liv you can see that she was that good as a rex rat. She was mainly curly on her back, and rather smooth furred on the rest of her body, unlike all my other rexes that was good examples of rex rats all of them. This shows what happens you breed a rex rat to a rat that has no rex rats in its pedigree... Of course Ladgun Svanvit had no rex rats in her pedigree since she was 100 % lab rat. It didn't help that Mercurius was a good rex rat. But Liv's babies was rather good rex rats, at least the ones with a rex father.
Here is a photo of Mercurius, Liv's father. Mercurius was the black based version of silver fawn, with blue undercolour and yellow tummy.
She was nice rattie, though. I do remember Jalle keeping a black based champagne rex sister, called Kiv from the same litter, for breeding.
Two of Liv's littermates was sold to breeders, and the rest as pets. One male, Indy, was sold Ann-Zophi's mother.
When I got Liv she had already had a litter of nine babies with Runatun Mercurius. Her litter contained nine babies, one german blue based silver, Runatun Ino, one that seemed to be a german blue based silver fawn and seven black based silver fawns.
When I did mate Liv with my silver fawn male Runatun Imax this was my first litter in two years. This was my Ia-litter, and consisted of eight babies. Two of the babies, a silver fawn called Aristoteles Iaffa and a german blue based silver called Aristoteles Iannini were exported to Finland.
Liv never had any more litters.
Copyright Eva Johansson.
Last update: 15th of November 2005.