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Color Identification (With URL This Time)

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Question
I am posting this for a friend who has six female rats. She asked me to find someone who would know what color her rats are. Because there are a lot of pictures, I have a link here to my Photobucket account. It should be public, but if not I can upload the pictures somewhere else.

She said one of them was supposed to be a rex when she bought it, but was never very curly haired.

The rats are named: Aneya, Nayeli, Toker, Dumbo, Blondie, and Winter.

The Photobucket Album: http://s390.photobucket.com/albums/oo347/ivchameleon/ratties/

Answer
Keep in mind these are just by looking -- to know a rats "real" color you have to know their background genetically.. so this is just an educated guess.

Aneya is a seal-point triamese. Triameses are born hooded and "molt" into a siamese look. She has funky coat.. she looks like a velveteen.. but she may just have that ultra-soft, easily messy coat.

Nayeli is a wedge-blazed (badger-blazed) mocha (or dark beige), her marking are borderline banded, but if I were to classify specifically I'd just say she was collared.

Blondie is a beige (possibly fawn, hard to tell by that light) broken hood.

Dumbo is a dumbo black capped with a headspot.

Toker (the dumbo?) appears to also be beige, although the picture quality makes it hard to tell for 100%; she could also be a mocha.. she's either self, English or berkshire. Selves have no white. Berkshires have a white belly. English has a white spot on the chest, but that's it.. so double-check on her. If she got Toker from a breeder, Toker may also be a mink-based platinum. If Toker is a pet store rat, that's pretty rare, and I go back to my original assumption of beige.

Winter appears to be a pink-eyed white.


Hope that helps :)