Feb 23, 2012
@ 11:26 PM

crowsteeth:

I have no patience or self-control I just emailed the breeder I bought Sora from about two little babies she has for sale. 

one is a black eyed white standard ear and the other is a black dumbo and eee they are really cute. 

I dunno maybe I’m crazy in the head or something but I really don’t like not  having rats. I fall into a routine and I hate change and THREE times now I have gone downstairs after school to get her out of her cage like I normally would and then I realize she’s dead and I’m a dumby. 

Aaaah they are ADORABLE. BEWs are absolutely gorgeous.

I always feel a tad bit guilty posting when I get new rats, because it tends to be right after one of mine dies, & I’m worried it comes off as me trying to replace them or something, but it’s really not that at all. Maybe it’s just the way I cope, but I find it much easier to deal with one’s death if I have something to distract me, because I also don’t deal with change very well at all.  I’m not saying everyone should go out & get two new rats every time one dies, but getting the Little Ones was the absolute best decision I could have made after Wyatt died. It just disrupted my entire life so much because he free-ranged for so long each day & I spent just about every moment he was awake with him. I remember the day after he died, I played in the bathroom with my other groups & then it was just like “Uhh…okay…what do I do now?” because there hadn’t ever been a time when I didn’t go hang out in the bedroom with Wyatt…I’d watch movies in there, I’d do homework in there, I did everything with him, & it was horrible not having him there. Getting new rats shook my life up enough that it was hard to notice there was a hole in my heart—six baby rats take up a lot of time & a lot of effort (especially when two of them have pneumonia, though that obviously wasn’t an ideal situation :P) & it was much harder to mope about Wyatt being gone with them taking up all of my energy.

Congratulations on the babies, I hope you get them! They are lovely, can’t wait to see more photos once you get them home. ;)