Josh is an agouti dumbo and great grandson of Seven.

Agouti is up there with black as being my favourite rat colour and ever since my little Zero died, I'd wanted another agouti.

Now an adult, Josh weighs around 900grams, which is heavier than Seven at his peak. He has obviously inherited the 'big gene' from Seven. However, he is also overweight and loves his food, something which needs to be kept in check. Though he eats as much as any other rat, he puts weight on more easily so I used to cut back on treats for him and attempt to get him to excersize. This wasn't easy because he's a bone idle rat and if he were allowed, he'd simply eat and sleep all day. However, now Josh is over 2, I feel he should be allowed to eat more of the things he likes, as eating realy is his biggest love and its highly unlikely he is going to lose weight now.
Josh has always been an alpha type of rat, but now he is older he is less worried about all that and usually accepts new members of the colony well. He's one of my absolute favourite boys, ranking up with Seven as one of my most special boys of all time. He's gentle, licky, squishy and adorably simple minded!

Josh was one of the rats who became very ill during the infection of July 2006. On at least one occasion he looked as if he should be euthanised, and had the vet been open, I most like would have done. However, I kept him in my room for 3 days where he slept on my bed and I regularly syringe fed him fluids and liquid foods when he wouldn't eat, and he made a remarkable recovery. I would never have expected him to survive, but Im so glad he did. He's a very special boy to me, so gentle and licky.

Why Josh? In contrast to JuJu, Josh had his name the day he arrived. I've always loved names beginning with the letter J, and Joshua is a nice old fashioned name, but mostly he is named after Josh Homme of QOTSA due to the fact that his fur is a lovely ginger/red colour in good light! Rats respond better to names with one or two syllables and they learn their names more easily. Josh knows his though whether he chooses to respond is another matter.