Convincing mom to let me get pet rats?

Your right rats do need to be in a group other wise they get sad and depressed! If your mum doesn't like the tail you can get tail less rats or get a guinea pig because they also make good companions for rats too!

They bring lots of benefits with having pets, especially rats! The advantages that come with having rats are that they are Smart, funny, cute, clean, friendly, can be taught tricks, behave like tiny dogs, following you around and begging to be let out and begging for food, eat pretty much anything (although common sense should be applied here), use household objects as toys, cheap to keep and, aside from daily play time, very low maintenance and easy to care for.

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