cagemate death

Hi all, my boys cagemate recently passed and my husband and I have been looking to add new babies to our family to help our boy not feel lonely. The issues suddenly all our pet stores no longer sell fancy rats and we can't find any local breeders or rescues. My question is (as a novice rat...

Hi, a week ago, one of my rats suddenly died. It was unexpected, and took me by surprise. He seemed to have been healthy the night before, and had still been eating, drinking, etc. He was only a year old, but from a pet store, so I'm not really surprised? But I'm concerned about my other rats...