I own two pet rats, 3 snakes and around twenty mice by now, but I am thinking about starting a rat (feeder) project in the moment. My rats were my first pets in my new flat after my ex left me, before that I have been a proud cat daddy. The two ratties gave me a lot of fun and love. But then I rembered my old childhood desire to own snakes, a desire I was not able to give in, because my ex and my mom were snakephobiacs. So I got my snakes now. When I was a child my mom would have never allowed me to own mice (but I really really wanted this), because they stink. But now (for feeding issues) I started a mice breeding project, that works and even though I like every single fuzzybutt I breed, I do not hesitate to give it to my most loved pets. I guess it will be the same with rats.