RatPalace.com - Pet Rat Care and Discussion

Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:40 pm

After many months of pondering and indecision, I have decided that it is time to put RatPalace to rest. There are several reasons for this decision - mostly time and costs - but other factors have helped me to make this decision.

Due to all of the valuable information contained on RP the site will not be disappearing completely. It will be put into an archived state. These changes will take place at midnight EST on Sunday, February 19 on RatPalace's 6th Anniversary.

All articles will remain and rat/mouse related forum information will remain and will be set to Read Only (no posting). Other boards may or may not be removed. Other changes to miscellaneous sections of the site may be removed or changed as well. But all important health and care info will remain for as long as I keep the RatPalace domains.

During this week it would be a good idea to exchange email addresses and let others you wish to stay in contact with know if there is another board you will be posting at. There are other rat forums out there - I'm not leaving you high and dry! Many of you already post at several of them. Feel free to have discussions here about where you will be going or suggestions of other rat communities.

Many thanks to all of you who have made RatPalace what it is over the years. Also many thanks to those of you who have donated your time and/or money to keep us up and running this long. I have met some wonderful people and have learned so much. I will miss it greatly, but it's something I need to do and I hope you guys understand that.

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Christy
RP Admin
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Frodo, Zorro, Erzulie, Maeve, Clara, Molly & Emily

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Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:47 pm

Let me be the first to say thanks to you Christy (and of course Jason) for all the time, money, effort and energy you've put into keeping RatPalace up and running, and providing such a wonderful community over the last 6 years. RatPalace was (and is) the only forum I've felt totally at home at, but all good things eventually have to come to an end. Thank you for giving so much, for providing a home for the Squeak! folk when that forum closed and for helping, supporting and educating so many people since then - me included.

I'll miss this place for sure, but I've made some great friends and learned more than I ever thought there could be to learn (and there's still so much more out there). Thank you, Christy (and Jason) for everything, and thank you to the rest of the mods and members of helping to make RP the best forum for rats and their humans. I'm honoured to have been part of that, as a mod, as a member, and as a rat mum. Hug

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

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Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:49 pm

Just more

Christy.

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Kate & the M.O.U.S.
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event ... what kind of film would you use?
~ Anonymous

Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:37 pm

I haven't been a member of this site for very long, and don't post often, but the amount of information I found here was simply amazing. Thanks to everyone that made this site what it is!

Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:43 pm

Wah closing? ;_;
Where do all the rat people go now?...>_>;;;

*Hugs* this place is great and always will be great. Thanks for all the hard work and effort <3

Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:58 pm

It can't have been an easy decision, Christy, but it must have become a monumental amount of work over the years. I was one of the ones who arrived here at the beginning, when the Squeak board closed, and you set up RP to give us a new home. I've met some wonderful people here and learned an enormous amount in the past six years. You deserve a rest, but also our thanks.

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Linda and the RMDs

Many have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it. We remain responsible forever, for what we have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:15 am

Andy, were you a Squeaker too? It seems like you've been here forever and I can't keep track of who was/is who half the time. LOL

But this place has been far better than Squeak ever was, and has been the best rat site on the web, bar none. Sad to see it go, but good to know that it will be archived for all the great info we've gathered here over the years.

I wonder if this means I can get away from Linda now. duck

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Kate & the M.O.U.S.
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event ... what kind of film would you use?
~ Anonymous

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:19 am

Thanks Christy and all the admin for all the work they put into this!! I will miss it here so much!! Hug

Everyone here is so nice, and helpful, what would I have done without you guys??

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Rest in peace, Violet and Isadora. <3

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:47 am

	Kate wrote:
	I wonder if this means I can get away from Linda now.

Not a chance...
...you can get away when you pay me back all that money I loaned you for that cocaine deal.

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Linda and the RMDs

Many have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it. We remain responsible forever, for what we have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:51 am

	Quote:
	Andy, were you a Squeaker too? It seems like you've been here forever and I can't keep track of who was/is who half the time.

No, I'm still a nipper in the rat world - I've only owned rats for the last couple of years now, though I spent about 6 months prior to that doing my usual manic research before I got them and I've wanted rats since I was in my early teens (a while back now, I admit). My flatmate/best friend is the rat fiend - he's had rats for about 12 years now, so between him, my sick rats who forced me to learn everything I could medical, and RP I learned a lot. However, I also know my RP history. I wish I'd been around for Squeak! - I continually feel like such a noob compared to so many people here.

Edit: I just noticed that I signed up on RP's 4th birthday - so I will have been a member for 2 years exactly when we stop posting.

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:01 am

Oh wow, I thought you'd been here for much longer than that! Can't get away from you, either. wink

And Linda, the check's in the mail. Yup.

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Kate & the M.O.U.S.
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event ... what kind of film would you use?
~ Anonymous

Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:21 am

Is that an insult or a compliment, Kate? duck

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:08 am

You decide. Devil Rat

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Kate & the M.O.U.S.
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event ... what kind of film would you use?
~ Anonymous

Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:25 am

Awwww. Well, I'm sure the decision wasn't easy, but I commend you for doing what you need to do to reclaim your own life!

I cannot thank you enough for having provided us a virtual home for six years. I, too, an another Squeak refugee, and I remember how wonderful it was to know that we'd all reconvene, thanks to you and Jason.

{{{hugs}}}

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Arvay and the Squirmin' Vermin

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'

--Erma Bombeck

Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:08 am

Noooooooo...... That's so sad, I haven't been here that long, but I really like it here what am I going to do now? Cry

I go to other forums, but this is the BEST one! Well, thanks anyways for making a place like this in the first place. I've learned a lot here and had fun here. Thanks a million. Raise the Roof

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33 rats
5 mice
4 hammies
4 Dogs
3 guinea pigs
3 rabbits
1 cat
R.I.P. Sebastian, Brently, & Bethoveen

Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:36 am

Well, I'm glad I found this place when I did...had I waited another couple months to get rats I probably would have never stumbled upon it. There's a lot of really great people here and loads of information that has already helped me out so much in the short month I've been a rat mommy. I've been to other forums but I've only posted here. It reminds me a lot of another community I used to be apart of (besides the fact that that was a peircing community, and also some of the mods were mean). I'm going to miss it here, but I'm so thankful I had the opportunity to be a part of it for a little while.

Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:28 am

I'm going to miss you all so much! It's so nice knowing that other people are as crazy about rats as I am! wink

I hope we can all keep in touch. Thank you so much Christy and Jason for all of your hard work, it is very appreciated! Hug

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Jess and the Four Rat Girls

Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:36 am

well i don't know about anyone else, but while i am sad to see this forum go, i am glad that it is the right decision for christy.

for those who don't know of the other place i visit the mostest, come over to Rats Rule forum and give us a try. it is only as good as the people who post and with everyone here posting over there, it is sure to be great.

the address for the rat forum is
http://www.goosemoose.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,118/forum,rat

there is also a dog forum, a cat forum, a hedgie forum, a bird forum, a ferret forum, a chin forum, a rabbit forum, a goosemoose forum...

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Visit ACE, MELANIE, BONBON, and the rest of my crew in Rat Tails

Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:46 am

When you do get over to Rats Rule or RMCA, let everyone know your RP name when you introduce yourself if you don't keep your same name!

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:13 pm

Remember that thread about who was from Squeak! and does anyone remember it...one day we'll all be on another forum, and someone will say, "Remember RatPalace?" and we'll all chat about how great RP was and all the newbies to the rat-forum world wont know what we're talking about, lol.

Then, Andy, you, myself and others will be "old school" like those on these forums who were from Squeak! before...

Hope this all makes sense

It does in my mind! Mr. Green

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Tails and her RAM byting Rats
Linux & Apple Mac
Angel rat

Maxie & Pepper

Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:39 pm

Hehe yeah it does.... but we'll never be as old as fogeys like Kate, Christy and Linda. LOL

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:09 pm

Dont forget Arvay

I'm gonna miss the smileys... Sad

Esp these:

JMHO

(cos I made it

)

(although I know some are standard with some forums...)

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Tails and her RAM byting Rats
Linux & Apple Mac
Angel rat

Maxie & Pepper

Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:13 pm

I really prefer this smiley set too...if its okay with Christy, maybe she'd be willing to let me use it on the new site(?) I still haven't gotten that stupid confirmation email though, so I don't even though if that would work or not..maybe you have to use the ones that're standard with the forum? I dunno yet.

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--Brittany

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom."

Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:38 pm

i'll be really sad to see RP go, but just wanted to thank everyone for all the help and advise with my first little ratbags. kate xx

Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:48 pm

You can customise the smiley set on the forum... though that would probably have to wait until it was up and running first. wink

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~