Healing Whiskers

While you are Prime Day shopping, don't forget to check out our Etsy shop where everything is 10% off for a limited time!

We have a variety of pet rat greeting cards, stickers, and mugs! 🐀❤️

Happy Father's Day to the best rat dad around—Johnny! 🐀❤️

It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🐀

Last day for our School's Out sale in our Etsy shop. All stickers and greeting cards are 5% off!

✨School's out for the summer! ✨

Another semester is in the books, so we are celebrating with a 5% off sale on all greeting cards and stickers until the 1st of June!

Kingston is a whole mood. #BarbieTheMovie

It's World Rat Day! 🐀🌎

✨The Pet Partners Pet of the Year fundraiser has ended, and with your help, we raised $890!✨

We didn't quite reach our goal of beating last year's total, but I'm so proud of what an impact a little rat can make! A big thank you to our donors; all of you are amazing! 🐀❤️

🚨Only ONE day left!🚨

The last spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat in honor of Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

Vincent enjoyed a well-deserved retirement filled with pasta and snuggles with his brothers. In late 2020, a small mass on his belly appeared, which turned out to be cancer. We kept going until he told us it was time to go 💔.

Vincent had 97 volunteer hours, visited 947 people, and we traveled 2464 miles for events. 🐀🌈

Vincent comforted many people and was (and still is) such a huge influence. A small rat making people smile in person and internationally via the web...there's something special about that. 💖

I sincerely thank everyone for donating, sharing, commenting and liking our posts. You all are amazing!

Tomorrow is the LAST day of the fundraiser! The last time I checked the leaderboards, we were around the top 15 - holy moly! Let's show them how great rats can be! 🐀

🚨Only TWO days left!🚨

Memorial spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat for Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

As Vincent became older, I decided to retire him from therapy work.

He was getting slower and tired more quickly, which is understandable for an almost two-year-old rat.

Our last visit, ironically enough, was where Vincent had his first event, at Berry College. He loved seeing his buddies, and it was very bittersweet. ❤️

🚨Only SIX days left!🚨

Memorial spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat for Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

When we had our reading program, I would visit a local library every other week. We had our usuals, and I saw significant improvements in their reading confidence. 📖

I remember a frequent visitor who was too young to read but made up a story from the pictures in the book to read to Vincent. ❤️

There's only a little more than a week left in our Pet Partners fundraiser, and we have raised $340 so far. Thank you! 🙌 

Memorial spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat for Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

One of my favorite little swag items to give kids and adults was an "I Pet a Therapy Rat!" button. I mean, who all gets to pet a therapy rat?

This was an excellent reward for those who were nervous about petting him.

They would typically pet his back real gently, pull their hand back, then smile or laugh. "See? not so bad! Here's a button!"

Memorial spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat for Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

Some of our first events were midterm de-stressing at colleges. Vincent was a natural!

I tried to get him used to being in a towel, a.k.a. a "rat burrito" but in the end he wasn't having it.

A towel is used as a barrier between the animal and the person just in case of accidents or if the person is allergic. Many of his working photos are in his basket, but that's all good. Whatever makes Vincent happy❤️.

Memorial spotlight on Vincent the Therapy Rat for Pet Partners' Pet of the Year Fundraiser...🐀❤️

When we passed our therapy animal evaluation, it was so exciting!

Vincent passed with flying colors and even had a "complex" score, meaning we could have worked in airports or other high-stress events.

I ordered a special smash cake to celebrate, which was really fun! 😆