Pros and Cons of feeding rodents to snakes...

Con: Feeling horrible having to potentially feed off such a cute little bugger...

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Pro: Having something to entertain your cats for hours on end...

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Con: Falling in love with one of the baby feeder rats you picked up and ending up keeping her as a pet because she's so tiny and sweet...

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wow those are really cute. You do fall in lov with them from time to time

nooo! not the preshusesss!
God, its so hard to find things cuter than baby rats/mice.

that is why i only feed f/t now. i used to go and buy live but some of them were so cute.

aaaaw, you should see it. if my baby sister gets a look at the little mouse pinkie before i give it to my ackie she falls in love!

I think there's something wrong with a person who can't empathise with the feeders, whether it be a mouse, rat, frog, pig, etc. A snake's gotta eat too, though...

Here's my philosophy. Which is cuter, the snake or the mouse? :D

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Originally Posted by Grim91Z

Here's my philosophy. Which is cuter, the snake or the mouse? :D

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My snake!@:bow: :snake2:

A dumbo Harley rat... and the snake... and "some" of the baby mice that don't bite me...

lol im guilty of keeping 2 mice already! i love ALL animals!

Our pet rats were supposed to be snake food, but the snake was on a fast. I'm finding it difficult to gas the babies, but I usu. buy FT from some vendor out in La-La Land so that I don't "know" the rats.


Mice on the other hand are nasty little boogers, and even when I HAD them, it was easy to feed them off. Luckily now all our snakes are on the various sizes of rats. :) But yeah, I just kept another five little does. They're all out of our awesome mommy rat, Peekaboo, and they're going to be part of a feeder colony. Terminal crosses of litters so we have enough of the other sizes that I can't get from Bryan or the other place.


R.

I know; it is a pretty odd balance, what ot feed off VS. what to get attached to keep/handle. I keep my distance from all our rats, because I they are really secondary; if I gave up snake keeping, the rats would be gone too. :)
But they are cute (damn cute, really) as pinks/fuzzies. When they become hoppers, it makes it easier to feed them off, to me; that's when they look too ratlike!

I do admit, I like my rats..... funny thing is, I get this feeling the snakes like them too! :)

when we buy our feeder mice we specifically say, "no cute mice and no pregnant mamas" cause they immediately become pets!

I only view rodents as a food source for my snakes.My wife and daughter try every now and then to get me to keep some rats as pets.I tell them they are pets until a snake is hungry.I see nothing wrong with people having rats as pets,its just not for me.