Rick Pariseau
Proud as a Pilot Who Patched the Windshield With Duct Tape
The evening after Rick of Rick’s Rodent Ranch told me that jumbo rats bite and gave me a new bridle to replace my old one because it was wearing out, I sat down to put it together.
When I tried to swap the bit from Woody’s old bridle to the new one, I discovered it wouldn’t fit. The cheek pieces that hold the bit were too wide and stiff to fit through the rings in the bit.
I sure wasn’t… Continue reading
“The Jumbos Bite”: Rick’s Rodent Ranch in Lexington, Oklahoma
“You’ve got different rat sizes,” Rick explains as he gently lifts a young rat onto his lap.
“You’ve got your fuzzies, hoppers, smalls, mediums, larges.” The rat scrabbles across his leg. “Oh, you’ve got your jumbos too. But they bite.”
Rick got into the feeder rat business with “four rats a friend gave me.” Now he has over 1,200… Continue reading
