This could only happen to a snake keeper

Just tried to feed the new ball pythons. The (still unnamed) pastel was like aww yeah, food! Zorro, the pewter, refused his thawed mouse. Thinking maybe he was use to rats, I attempted to scent the mouse with our pet rat.

Now, this rat does not like me. She takes every advantage she gets to reach through the bars of her cage and grab my clothes, hair, flesh, whatever. Attempts to hold her result in me getting bit every.damn.time. My daughter can dress her up, tote her around, whatever, with no problem. Me? Rat Enemy #1.

So, knowing I couldn't hold her to scent the mouse, I attempted to distract her with a treat so that I could quickly rub the mouse on her back.

She saw right through my plan.

That is how I ended up playing tug-o-war with a rat over a thawed mouse. It was both morbid and hilarious.

I won, but the snake still didn't eat.

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Originally Posted by Bugmom

Attempts to hold her result in me getting bit every.damn.time. My daughter can dress her up, tote her around, whatever, with no problem. Me? Rat Enemy #1.

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lolol haha. Animals are hilarious.

ROFLMBO that os too funny. Rats are so silly. This sounds like what my pet rat Powder would have done. Her sister Squiggles would have gotten under my hair and lounged on my neck. They have personality let me tell you.

Lol! That's a hilarious story. :p

Man,when rats are little there kinda cute..but afterwords,when there grown,idk man,they freak me out..idk how you ppl keep um as pets.:bow:

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Originally Posted by NYHC4LIFE8899

Man,when rats are little there kinda cute..but afterwords,when there grown,idk man,they freak me out..idk how you ppl keep um as pets.:bow:

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Rats make awesome pets. They're like little puppy dogs if you put the time in with them.

Ratties are awesome and fun and cute. We have feeders and pets. I swear 2 of them know their names when I talk to them.

We use rats to experiment on for a reason. Very, very, very smart animals.

I've had pet rats off and on for 20 years. This is the first one that just flat out doesn't like me. I give her treats, talk to her, try to pet her, but just haven't won her over.

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That is rather funny. lol.

Next time, just grab some of the rat bedding and rub the mouse on that. Live animals aren't needed for scenting. hahaha
Or try a live mouse.

Lol awesome story, sorry I loved it! :)
My rat is the sweetest girl I'm so glad Lex didn't eat her!!!

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Years of keeping hamsters and gerbils and the numerous bites associated with it have led to me not wanting to even touch a live rodent. Especially rats. Have you seen the teeth on those things? Scary!
The only rodent my brain will accept are chinchillas. You can't go on in life not experiencing the cushion that is their fur. Sooooooo soft! :) I still want to get one...

Gotta love the Rats, when i first started out I hated them too. Their personality and intelligence is soooo infectious, now my breeders have names. lol

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Rats make awesome pets. They're like little puppy dogs if you put the time in with them.

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Yes!

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Belly rubzzzz

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I love rats :)

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That is rather funny. lol.

Next time, just grab some of the rat bedding and rub the mouse on that. Live animals aren't needed for scenting. hahaha
Or try a live mouse.

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She was going to bite me if my hand went in that cage anyway, might as well go for broke lol

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That's a situation that most people just wouldn't understand. There are so many things with keeping snakes that you would never be able to get the common person to understand.

Hamsters and gerbils are naturally biters. Rats are sweethearts. The girls I had were so sweet. Man the personalities on those 2. Squiggles just wanted to curl up and love you, and Powder was a little pistol. She would kaumakazee on to my cat scare the crap out of him then get back on me really fast. She was into everything. If my sons want a rodent when they get older they are getting rats because I trust them to be sweethearts and not bite. I refuse to get hamsters and gerbils because of being bitten by them as a child. Yes rats are like dogs but a whole lot more intelligent compared to my goofy dog lol.

I used to have pet rats a few years ago, my first two were lovely; they could sit on the top corner of the sofa and watch tv, climb into my pocket and come to the local shop with me and were genuinely lovely, loving pets. my second two seemed to be missing the loving chromosome, they wanted nothing to do with people and spent their time sleeping or trying to escape (which one did eventually after the other one had passed, leading to the end of my rat ownership!)

Not sure I could keep rats as pets now I have to feed frozen ones to my BP's, I always have a subconscious thought of "Naomi, these are food - these would never be pets." They definitely don't creep me out at all but I did have to deal with a rat incident for my friend once where we found the pet rat, but didn't find the rats head. Still to this day baffled as how that happened....

Lol that is pretty funny!