 lovely way of appreciating rats is to appreciate just how much they care about one another. And so, in the course of writing the story, I was coming at it, you know, as a science journalist. And so, I talked to scientists, and it never even occurred to me to speak to people who know rats as companions. And there are lots of people like that. And often they say, you know, rats are really a lot like dogs, they're just very small, and sadly, much shorter lived. And