This thread is hilarious......... I love it. How can anyone be so passoinate about a rats life when we go to the store and pick it out to die....... They stink, if I ever had a snake that wouldnt take pre killed and turned down a live offering...... Well, Id feed it to my boa cuz he is a garbage dispenser..... But for reals, something would have to happen cuz it would not be stinking up my place.