Roux is a himilayan.

Roux is one of three does brought to me by an RSPCA inspector after being found dumped in a car park.
The RSPCA called me ask me if I could take 3 more rats. I agreed to, and was told that had I not done so, they likely would have been euthanised, but they didn't want to tell me this in case I felt pressured into taking them!

Roux and her cage mates arrived in a battered critter 2 cage, all three of them hanging off the bars like monkeys, and all of them totally unused to being handled. These weren't just rats who had only been picked up once a week or so, these were rats who acted like they'd never been picked up. They weren't scared of people, as they would happily come to the bars and didn't run and hide when you approached, but they just hated being picked up. Roux was the worst.

I intended to only foster these girls, and I put them up on the rehoming forum, hoping to rehome them as a threesome, or rehome two of them and keep the other one here.
After 2 weeks, however, no-one had expressed any interest in them.
This is partly due to the location, and partly due to the fact that they needed work

So after a fortnight, I made the decision that they were staying here.
Roux, like all the girls, is a young, feisty doe who loves to get out of her cage and explore. I was slightly concerned that she may have been pregnant when she arrived, as she had a little round belly. Fortunately, that wasn't the case; she's just a little podgy!
Roux is a lot better now at being picked up, but she still doesn't relish it. She is very indepenant and strong willed, like most young does. I don't think she'll ever be a cuddly rat, but some rats are like this and I always respect their wishes over my own. As long as she is happy, I don't mind that she only acknowledges me in passing!

Why Roux? Just another foodie name that I always thought would suit a silly little doe!