RUPERT
Gender - Male 
Species - Banded rat hybrid with a meerkat
Height - 1 ft (30 cm) with a 1 ft tail
Weight - 35 oz (1 kg)
Shape - Slightly chubby/pudgy
The base pattern for the design of this character is the banded rat:
Bottom view - http://www.ratfanciers.net/images/bottomrat.gif
Side view - http://www.ratfanciers.net/images/banded_side.gif
Top view - http://www.ratfanciers.net/images/banded_top.gif
COLOURS:
Brunt Orange - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23791658/RupertColors/BruntOrange.png
Platinum (grey) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23791658/RupertColors/Platinum.png
Chocolate (brown) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23791658/RupertColors/Chocolate.png
Pink - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23791658/RupertColors/Pink.png
DESIGN:
His main fur colour is orange, with a grey under belly instead of the white seen in the above reference of a banded rat. His tail, ears, nose and feet are pink like a normal rat, however the top edge of the left ear has a brown spot- some of the spot running over to the inner ear. The fur at the end of his snout and near the start of the tail is brown, and the end of the tail is black tipped. His eyes would be brown, and a taft of brown fluff on top his head.
On his back are 10 brown meerkat stripe markings, featuring a black/dark gradient-outlining the stripes. The same thin gradient-outlining also appears around the border of the orange fur.
THE STRIPES:
All stripes are evenly spread out between the neck and the base of the tail, while the length of the stripes is centered at 75% the width across the orange fur area. 
The 1st and 9th stripes both has 2 small gaps within both strips, one at the 1/4 mark and the other at the 2/3 point.
The 2nd and 7th stripes both have a small gap within the stripe at the 1/2 point.
The 4th stripe has two gaps, one at a 1/3 of the way and the other at the 3/5 point.
The 5h stripe has only the one gap at the 1/5 mark.
The 6th stripe has a single gap at the 3/4 mark.
The 10th/bottom stripe has two gaps, at the 2/5 point and the 4/5 mark.
All the other (3rd, 8th) stripes have no gap.