I was in the petstore yesterday looking at corn snakes and my fiance was busy carrying around a kitten they had up for adoption. (we really wanted that kitten, but we have to wait till we get the townhome). A woman and her two kids come into the store and ask almost in a desperate voice, "Do you have any young rats? Like 6-10 weeks old." Well they didn't have ones that young, but a bit older and I wanted to see the rats too since I want rats eventually. So we go to the back room where they keep thier feeders and breeders. The woman and her kids go ga-ga over all these rats and the woman looks over at me and says "I rescue them" And I'm thinking she rescues them from petstores, but this isn't exactly a bad petstore. Then she says "You know, from people who feed them to snakes. I just try and save a few." She has 13 now. So, I leave the room and stand outside the reptile room. As they are coming out, I ask an employee about one of the snakes in the reptile room and I think the woman felt a little wierd.

She had just told a snake owner that she rescues rats from snakes. I couldn't help but laugh when she left.

People like this really bother me. It is nature. Snakes eat rats. Big deal. Nature designed them to eat rodents and that is what they eat.