good news!!

ok so ill catch everyone up. basically, about a month ago, my fuckass rats, yumulack and pupa, literally created holes in their old cage and escaped into my bedroom T_T... this doesnt sound that bad BUT when it first happened, i was not fully conscious and didnt realize until the next day after they started destroying my room. i tried like one billion times to lure them into their cage again (it worked but the cage was too mutilated for them to stay in). this all meant it was time for a new cage. now, my family was not financially ready to buy a new cage, but we made it work -.- ! well uh turned out the new cage's bars had too much space between them... the rats got back out in seconds. absolutely destroyed emotionally from this discovery, i just kept it a secret [bad idea]. my dad is lowkey neglectful so he didnt notice the mess, smell, and overall chaos coming from my room anyways. but at this point they were digging at the carpeted area under my door. and before i realized, my black/white rat, fucking pupa had made it out of my room (>.<*). my father was pissed!! he made a bunch of thin and unimportant threats, but his gf actually started helping me adjust the cage. she got me everything i needed to clean up the copious amounts of rat feces and even offered to help, all while my dad sat around getting stoned. after ALL THAT, i got their cage properly set up and both of them contained!! now my room is cleaner than ever[i hadnt deep cleaned in yearssss], my rats have a safer cage, and i have a better connection with my dads gf!! overall, not worth it, but i survived it!!!