Yep ,like most people here I too feel that I'll never be atached to rats especially mice. Mice are just nasty and even stinkier than rats. For that reason I switched all my snakes to frozen rats. Perhaps if they did't stink as much and if they weren't historicly notorious for carrying so many diseases I would feel differently about them. Squirels I hate for obvious reasons, they always chew my mosquito screens and try to get in the house.
As far as the hunting goes , I don't kill nothing unless I'm going to eat it, not even a spider , well pests are exception to that but you get my point.