Ever get stuck with a rat?

I think I'm very lucky I'm allergic to rats and mice! Even if I wanted to keep one, it's got to go. lol.

sorry i am soooo laughing here. you have to talk to each other before feeding your live prey to the snakes LOL

hahahahahahahahaha

that's toooooo cute.

well here, we were breeding mice and my daughter was getting waaaaay too attached to the babies... so we stopped and then the petstore gave us a very pregnant mouse as a feeder one week. well i just can't feed a preg mouse to a snake...so it went into the 'pet bin' and had it's babies... the next week... same thing happened... another mouse in the 'pet bin' and now... i tell them... NO PREGNANT FEMALES PLEASE giggling...

but now i have three bins set up with mice in them to feed... they are coming in too small and i want them fatter, healthier and squishier for my snakes... so i'm giving them lots of good stuff to eat and letting them increase their health and size here.

and yes... there is a breeding tank as well... with three very pregnant females! so we'll have live pinkies for the cornsnake and sand boa soon!

I have had pet rats, bred for the fancy pet rat trade... but I also, at the same time had feeder/breeder rats. For some reason I was able to make a distinction between the two very well, and not get attached to my feeder/breeder rats. But this was over 5 years ago. Have since quite breeding any rats for any purpose.

Almost 2 and half years ago, we did end up getting stuck with a feeder rat cause one of our bp's would not eat. I tried to feed that rat off 3 times... with 2 different bp's. After that, I figured that was a sign he should be spared. So he became a pet. He died just before this past X-Mas, we actually did enjoy him alot!

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Originally Posted by Pythons Rock

Funny thing I have just been in this situation, we had two breeder rats that I was in love with, they were cuddly and would lay there and watch TV with me. My GF ended up giving them to our friend with the 7ft BCI (without me knowing) and I was told after the fact, I was actually hurt by this. I waited until my girlfriend was out for the day and fed her two favorite mice to my adult BP and then told her after the fact. We are now even. Kinda wierd, it's was a quiet argument and noone even raised their voice. So now we have an agreement to talk to eachother if we are in question about feeding an animal to the snakes.

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i can only imagine what would have happend if you two never discussed the issue and just let it esculate.:O

Dan threatens to feed it to Lola the second im gone but he knows how crushed I'd be. Last night Me and Fernando ( the baby rat) watched a show on animal plant about snakes...me watching and Fernando mostly sleeping in my shirt under the warm covers. I feel like im a whack-o!!!

Does anyone know what a healthy diet is for a baby rat?
So far Im feeding him those green gerbal balls(about 5) some cut up baby carrot(about 5 pieces) and some cut up letteuce (a pinch).Then in the evening when I come home from work I feed him the same just minus the lettuce. He never finishes it all but I dont like the mess it makes so I clean out the cage twice a day. ( I lined it with newspaper and paper towel)

Becky (SatanicIntention) has a wonderful food mix. Here's a link.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=28391

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

Becky (SatanicIntention) has a wonderful food mix. Here's a link.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=28391

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Oppps! Well no more lettuce for Fernando then!
Im gonna try some of the parts of the mix, he is a small dude and I dont think I will have him to long.

Thanks for the link!

This is the exact way we ended up w/Scabbers, Peekaboo and Smudge. Now they're pets. Peek's first litter by Scabbers were food, because P. Snake was eating that size. Now the snake's on a fast and I ended up buying food.

Luckily, w/these two litters (17 total) I'm only holding 3 maybe four back and the rest are going to the local feed store. (Pets or food, I don't know). Their reg. supplier hasn't been able to provide rats so they're going to buy mine. Problem is they're only going to give me .50/each, and as food, these are the size that they're worth at least $1.15. now, but I found with the first of Peek's litters, I felt really bad about gassing them.

I'm going to sell these, but probably will keep and freeze the next litter.

this is by far one of the most interesting things that I have heard. really funny actually. I don't know what to say really. get a rat care book I guess. I don't think you should name your food items besides "breakfast", "lunch", and "dinner" or else you get attached.

Well baby rat Fernando is a gone-er.


Since day one I thought something was wrong with this rat,he was constantly scratching his nose (everyday i would find dry blood around it). Then he scratched his eye and it swelled up. Finally this afternoon I could tell he wasnt going to make it. He wouldnt move and was neither eating or drinking.

Then whamy, he passed on. After I went out and bought a neat little rat set up for him and all that jazz.

Well right about now my boyfriend is scooping up the remains and taking it out to the dumpster. Adios Fernando!!!!!!