Our furry FRIENDS
Mar 18, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: KARA O’NEILL.
‘Plum has brought me a new sense of purpose’
Ren Shilcock, 21, from Horsham, West Sussex, adopted Plum the rat in 2019.
When I tell people I have pet rats, they turn up their noses and shudder, but I always implore them to give rats a chance – they’re actually loving and sociable creatures.
Plum was in a bad way when I first got her as a rescue. She’d been living without a companion and seemed very quiet and timid, hated being handled.
Eventually, with the help of training
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