Do you associate with your feeders?

I moved in with my sister temporarily a while back and my 8 y/o nephew Gavin took a liking to my bp Valo. I was thrilled. I took Gavin with me to get a few mice for Valo and when we got home he ended up playing with the mice for like an hour, deciding what order they would die in based on their cuteness. He named the cutest (and last to die) Fuzzy. I was less than thrilled.

However when it came time for them to become dinner Gavin watched Valo eat with no remorse. Morbid little kid that he apparently is, I still made sure to wait till he was with his dad for the weekend before throwing "Fuzzy" into the lion's den. Just to make sure that one wasn't a different scenario.

I'm proud to say Gavin now has his own baby bp, named Dali just like my girl that joined the family right before I moved out of my sister's. My sister refuses to buy more than one mouse at a time so Gavin doesn't have time to get attached. lol

As for me, I don't care much for mice. They're pretty cute to look at but I like the snakes better and have no real problem watching at feeding time.

Rats on the other hand are a whole othe story. My bps are all 08s and on either hoppers or adult mice so far. I'm really dreading switching to rats and for Dali and Max that will be very soon. I've had many pet rats when I was younger and I loved them dearly. They would sit on my shoulder like little parrots and one of them actually ate food out of my mouth (I didn't really consider the diseases I might be risking at the age of like 10 lol) and went to school with me a few times in my pocket. Rats are so very intelligent and social... *sigh*

I'm def. going to switch my bps to frozen before it comes time for rats. Mostly because I'm more worried about the damage a rat could inflict on them than a mouse, but also because I'm a wussie. lol

Sorry for being so long winded :P