Introduction
The goal of the Pittsburgh Rat Lovers Club and Rescue is to promote the well being of rats through education, rescue, and adoption.
We are based out of Western Pennsylvania, but have members around the globe. We have two websites that we use to help spread information. This is our official website that contains a lot of great educational resources including the group's informational handout.You can also find additional links to some great educational sites, suppliers, and fun activities.
We can also be found within Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/group/pittsburgh-rat-lovers-club. Here you can use your Google Account to log into and participate in our active message boards. All you need is a verified Google account to apply for membership.
For additional info on how to become a member please read out member guidelines.
Have a Question, Surrender or Rescue?
Email the Club's Managers at pittsburgh-rat-lovers-club+managers@googlegroups.com
Or Call/Text/Email:
Lindsay Pulman LVT LATg: PRLC Club President, Rat Education, Health , Medical & Surrenders
(724) 234-7481 or (724) 266-0334 pulman2@comcast.net
Lisa Dunsey: PRLC Manager, Owner/Operator Rat Nation Shelter of Pittsburgh - Rescues, Surrenders & Adoptions
(412) 999-8178 rdunsey@msn.com
Kelly Yann: PRLC Manager, PRLC Adoption Coordinator
(412) 708-7919 kcyann@aol.com
We have created a Amazon Wish List for our Rescue Rats & Rescue Rabbit it is:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1Q9WDLT3MOI75?type=wishlist
Thank You from all of us here at PRLC/Rat Nation of Pittsburgh !
2023 PRLC RAT CALENDAR
The New 2023 Calendar has now arrived
Thank you for all the photos submissions in 2022, we had a lot this year!
The 2023 calendar is $10 if picked up in person or $12.50 if mailed in the US.
Click here to order a calendar.
New on the website: How to feed orphaned baby rats or mice
Investigating animal abuse
If you see abuse in a pet store or other site, do not react at all, just walk right past the offending cage or tank. Stroll around, pick up some inexpensive pet supplies for fish, or for some other unrelated species. Spend a few minutes looking at the fish or some other species. Keep an eye on the store employees, and when they are busy elsewhere in the store, stroll back to the tank or cage and quickly take some photos of the animals and cage or tank with your cell phone.
Be observant and remember how many cages or tanks, the approximate size, about how many animals in each, what the issues are (filthy conditions, too many animals in the tank or cage, injured, sick or dead animals in the tank or cage, no water or food readily available ….
Then, casually stroll back to the check out counter and purchase the small items you picked up, as a cover. Do not react, nor say anything to anybody.
Then, alert us immediately. Send the photos, and all the details that you observed, and we will get the humane officers on the case immediately.
Sendai virus warning alert
Since last posting our warning about the Sendai virus being confirmed everywhere in the US we have been in contact with people who recently informed us of illness in their rats that are showing all the clinical symptoms of Sendai.
Click Here to have more information about the sendai virus (symptoms, quarantine, advice...)
How to help us?
Our association is taking care every day of numerous rats. And we have regularly new rats abandoned, or rescued that we take in here at PRLC.
Each donations help us to buy food, pay the veterinarian care, buy new materials and make sure they live in very good conditions.
If you want to make a donation
through PayPal please use
rdunsey@msn.com
For more information please contact : managers@pittsburghratloversclub.org
Thank you !
