No, the ''the'' isn't a mistake, I didn't mean to write ''a''.
So yesterday, I bought 2 rats, a Rex one (I think that's how they called it) and a hairless one. Both are female, and were in the same cage in the pet shop. However, there was a third one in the cage.
Now, I'm starting to feel bad about not buying the third one, because I know rats are pretty social creatures, and now I know that rat is alone... and will either be bought alone, be bought to be introduced to other rats she doesn't know, and/or be introduced to other rats she doesn't know before someone buys her (as the pet shop employee told me and my girlfriend they are supposed to get more rodents during the week)
If I go and buy the third rat this morning after my (night) shift ends, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have to do the whole introduction process since she would have only been separated from it's 2 friends for a day.
ALSO, me and my GF learned that hairless rats tend to not live as long, so it's likely that my other rat will eventually end up alone. Forgot to mention therat we left (atm) alone at the pet shop is not a hairless one, so it's way less likely that even when my hairless one passes away, that my second rat would stay alone for too long.
So... should I go ahead and pick her up? (I already had plan to buy a bigger cage when my paycheck arrives, since I already had one, albeit a small one, that my GF was given a long time ago, taht she lent me until I get a bigger bage) At the pet shop, they were already together, and got along well so...
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