So we started breeding rats or trying to at any rate, in order to get out own food supply going, which I gather a lot of people do when they have a lot of snakes. It's been a few weeks and our rats are growing, but have yet to produce any babies. My husband is the main rat guy, I just check on them and hold them every once in awhile. There are a couple I actually really like out of our breeders, that have names and outstanding personalities.

Seems all is going just fine, right? Okay so maybe not. As it turns out, every time I hold a rat for longer than a minute I get hives. I have never been allergic to any animal before, that I am aware of. Yet it never fails... every time I hold one I come out of it with four, five, sometimes more hives. Itchy red areas with little bumps that go away with a little time, but god do they itch bad.

Just my luck that I would turn out to be allergic to rats, right? An animal I have to have around in order to keep my snake obsession going. Bleh.