Forming a local rat community

... is another tricky thing 4. Enrichment, playing, scritching and communicating with your rat. 5....? Food is really a problem as there is no company here who sells proper rat food and trying to follow suebaby's mix here is rediculously expensive and tiresome. The only rat food we can get is HT from their lab supplies branch here but I don't want to encourage people paying them money for anything ...