In the past week my collection has gotten up to 17 snakes with plans for more in the near future. I have been considering breeding rats for a while and it seems to be a better idea the more snakes i get. I'm not really wanting to get into large scale rat breeding really, I would just like to maybe breed enough to feed most of my stuff that are live feeders on pups-small rats. I would continue buy all my larger and frozen stuff from a breeder. My main question I guess is could I maintain a small colony of rats in my house without there being a horrible smell and my snakes in the next room over always greeting me with a feeding response anytime I mess with them?