Does anybody keep rats AND snakes as pets?

I also had pet rats a few years ago, before the thought of owning a snake ever popped into my mind. I loved them! They were very sweet, and fun to hold and watch. They ended up breeding, and my mom made me give them and the babies back to the petstore, haha. (I was around 15 or 16 then, 24 now.)

I don't have any pet rats now, but I do have 2 birds and a hamster in the same room as our snake. She doesn't seem to notice anyone, and we've yet to be tagged by her. I'd most likely have another pet rat if we had the room for another cage, and if the boyfriend could get over their "gross tails". :P

And Isis, our ball python, eats only F/T. She takes them like a champ, and we don't really feel bad feeding her. We (really really) like to think that the rats we buy were killed quickly, painlessly, and humanely. We try to take comfort in that. The mouse/rat would probably suffer a lot more getting squished and chomped on, as opposed to drifting off to sleep. :)

I keep both. I love my rats and keeping them doesn't seem to bother my snakes. I've never liked feeding rats to my snakes but they have to eat to survive and I love them too. Sometimes I get too attached to a feeder and it becomes a pet. :)

I do!

I have two strictly pets and I am breeding for high quality, friendly rats for pet homes.

Okay thanks guys!!

I just wanted to make sure if I got a rat, my snakes wouldn't go crazy and wouldn't greatly increase my chance of getting tagged.

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Awwww!! ^^ We actually have a couple that were destined to ne dinner, but snakes didn't eat. We wound up raising them from weanlings, one from pupish. They are super sweet little love bugs. They jump up and climb the cage when you go near, like little monkeys on the bars. I swear they know their names. We also have breeders, and breeder asf's, for the most part I am fine feeding off. But every once in awhile there is one little ratty that stands out, they usually don't wind up food. :)


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I keep snakes, rats, mice and cats in my room. Everyone gets along fine and I don't seem to have a problem. I just wash my hands when going from rats/mice to snakes - but I usually clean the snakes first anyways, and my rodents don't seem to care :)