I have a small group of ball pythons and most of them eat f/t rodents. Some of them will only accept live rodents. To keep a reliable and steady flow of live rodents I have started raising a small group of rats. This is going fine and the rats are reproducing as planned. The snakes are eating the rats.

All is perfect right? Not at all

Part of the reason that I keep ball pythons is that I love animals. It really makes me sad to feed live and it makes me even more sad when I have raised the rats for this purpose. I am trying very hard to keep in mind that this is nature and to not be so upset about it. However that does not seem to be working for me thus far, 2 months. Enough babbling. For those of you in a similar situation does this feeling slowly disappear? I am willing to give it some time as I really enjoy the pythons. However I do not think I can win this battle every week for ever.

Thank you for reading this post and your valued response.