Thanks to each and every one of you. At times like this I really value the support that PT can offer.

I feel like I need another rat in my life as soon as possible. There is no way I can replace Tia, yet I need the gap in my heart to be filled. At the shelter I volunteer at, there is a small black-hooded girl, much like Tia in appearance, looking for a home. I would take her in in an instant, yet she is also suffering from a mammary tumour. I just don't know if I can put myself through all the torment again. Yet I don't want to betray her and the shelter by looking elsewhere.

I hope Tia will send me a little rattie to enter my life again soon.

Again, thank you everyone. Tia would have been so flattered to have known how loved she was.