Kinda Grown Attached...

Well i have had this little feeder mouse in my possesion now for about 4 weeks. For some reason my snake doesnt want to eat. So i have been taking care of the mouse... feeding it, giving it water, stuff like that.... Now i dont want to feed my BP with this one. i kinda got attached...

Have any of you ever gotten attached to a feeder and ended up keeping it as a pet??


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Yup two times :)

"Lucky" and "Zeus" :D

All the time but they always end up as food :O

haha my mom came to my apt the other day and she was like ahhh you gotta keep him haha. So i may end up keeping him for now lol

Heck I have to watch I don't get too attached to our rat feeders. I'm forever finding a "good reason" to keep one or two back. The latest one is a really cute agouti marked female...has this huge agouti colored mark on her butt and with Robin's help I named this young female rat..."Betsy Buttpatch" LOL. Sometimes they are just too unique to feed off. :)

No way, in my eyes they are food not pets.

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Have any of you ever gotten attached to a feeder and ended up keeping it as a pet??

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Not attached to feeders but I like my breeders.

The solution would be to keep him and get a female and start breeding your own mice ;)

Never, but once I had a rat and nobody would eat her so now she is growing up to be a breeder!

Yea i might breed and make my own feeders.... ill h ave to figure it out. I dont want 10000 of mice running around thought. How do you tell weather its a male or female so i know which to buy if i start breeding

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Originally Posted by Lewdogg3

How do you tell weather its a male or female so i know which to buy if i start breeding

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same way you can tell if a newborn baby is a boy or girl:cool:

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Originally Posted by Lewdogg3

Well i have had this little feeder mouse in my possesion now for about 4 weeks. For some reason my snake doesnt want to eat. So i have been taking care of the mouse... feeding it, giving it water, stuff like that.... Now i dont want to feed my BP with this one. i kinda got attached...

Have any of you ever gotten attached to a feeder and ended up keeping it as a pet??


haha

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I've gotten attached a few times until I got bit:sabduel:

Yeah, when that cute little furball latches onto to your finger and draws blood, it just takes away the magic...doesn't it? lol.....
:snake: Time to feed you to my snake you little @#$^%*

or when they "relieve" themselves on you!Thats a :colbert: if you want to live!

The relieving doesn't do it, and I've only had ONE that when she bit me (for the 4th time) did I feed her off...I should have waited for the litter, but I didn't want a whole slew of babies that bit. This one actually came across the entire cage just to take a hunk out of my finger.



Yeah, I have...their names are Scabbers and Peekaboo. Both started out as Baby food, but Baby was in a fast and then when she started eating again, S & P were both too big. They then became the basis of our pets/food colony. Now some of their babies are having ratlets.

And when they die, we'll bawl like babies as we bury them.............

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Originally Posted by Lewdogg3

Well i have had this little feeder mouse in my possesion now for about 4 weeks. For some reason my snake doesnt want to eat. So i have been taking care of the mouse... feeding it, giving it water, stuff like that.... Now i dont want to feed my BP with this one. i kinda got attached...

Have any of you ever gotten attached to a feeder and ended up keeping it as a pet??


haha

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Guilty as charged - but much relieved when they (I had two of them) died of old age and will never keep another mouse as a pet again - very stinky!

But after an extended fast with my first ball python, I didn't have the heart to feed them off.