I've gotten attached... sigh

[Ginevive]

The babies from one of my breeder mice, are now weaned and all furry, about half-grown. Trouble is, they are feeder mice, and I have gotten attached to one! She's the only piebald one from the litter (she's black and white, but the others, though they're spotted, are merely brown and white.)
I think I'll keep her around as a third breeder female, and give her a long, happy life instead of her becoming snake food like the rest.
Man, us snake keepers get put into some odd situations! "Sure, it's OK to feed this entire litter of mice to my snakes, but not that one!"
I'll try to get a pic... never saw myself as someone who would be posting a pic of a "pet" mouse... sigh.

[rex322]

lol thats great. i have (my mom) four rats and i hate them.

[green_man]

lol, I cant buy live without the wifey falling in love with them. Needless to say I buy frozen now.

[Shelby]

hah.. when I go through the bags of rats in the freezer I'm like 'oh, I remember that one!'

I don't let them get to me.

[Marla]

hah.. when I go through the bags of rats in the freezer I'm like 'oh, I remember that one!'

I don't let them get to me.

Reminiscing with prey? :? :lol: I don't let it get to me, either. I can't, or I'd have a house full of rodents, and that just won't do.

[Jase]

Gah i always fall in love with the extra cute babies from litters.....sometimes its so hard not too, lol

[Shelby]

Well, the darn things make so much noise when they're young and playing all the time, by the time they're 'harvest' size I'm thinking 'Die foul beasts!'

[Ginevive]

Turns out our black/white mouse is male, so he is slated for the snakey dinner table after all. I don't need males lying around; I kinda use them as "sperm donors" and then feed them off once the female is preggo!
But now I just got a new female rat that is about half grown and I am using her as a future breeder. She is the ONLY rat or mouse, out of all ten adults I have now, who will let he pick her up without shrieking. NOT that I am getting attached, mind you; but a tame mother would be alot better than the evil demonesses I now have!

[Shelby]

Evil demoness. Yes, that's what both my breeder rats are like. I'm waiting for a cute female rat to be born, and I'll raise it up and handle it a lot. When it's ready to breed, I'll get a mate for it and then... into the freezer with those nasty breeder rats!

[Ginevive]

Yeah, I am thinking that temperament might even be genetic. I read on a rat breeding site that it was, and I am inclined to believe it. This is because I have one daughter of one of my "evil" females, that is still evil, even though I tried since birth to handle her. She was always jetting away frrom me as soon as I put my hand in her cage! But this new female is not at all afraid. Unbelievable.