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This is a bit different from what I usually see here, and it takes a little bit insight into rats as pets to understand, but I'll try to explain as best I can.

Rats are social animals and live in mischiefs, usually large groups. So when owning them as pets, it's best to always get more than one, since with a humans usual schedule they can get lonely. 

Wells, I've owned rats for quite a few years now, and I have owned them in pairs for so far. 

Well, I had a pair of hairless males, and one died (Benis), leaving the other boy (Albert) alone. I wasn't about that, and after a week I adopted 2 more males (Noot and Noah) from a rescue to keep him company until he passed (old bastard man). 

Albert HATED them, and after trying and failing to introduce them together or even have have their cages relatively close over a period of time, I gave up because Albert was getting old and sadly, dying.  So I spent the rest of his mortal existence with him alone and alternating  spending time holding him or the other two. 

After he passed, I was back to two rats, and this was something I was familiar with, but it turns out Noot had cancer (horrible cancer according to vet), and he had to be put down. 

So that leaves Noah. He's been a single male for a couple of months now, and he seems happy enough. I'm home 5 days out of 7 and when I'm at school my grandma spends a lot of time holding him and stuff. 

He gets a lot of free roam time and interacts with our small dog under supervision. He even sleeps in bed with me because I feel so bad about having just one rat and I don't want him to feel alone lol.

I've been considering getting another male but my grandma is kind of afraid to since we went through a sequence of 3 pet rat deaths. Older males are also hard to introduce to eachother and I already failed once.

So I guess I just want to know if despite me being extra with him if I'm still kind of abusing him by not getting him a new boyfriend?

TLDR; A series of unfortunate events led to one adult male rat being the last standing. I don't think getting a partner is going to work do to history. AITA if I just continue to smother my one rodent in affection? 

owning only one rat