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‘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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