I keep both pet snakes and pet ASF's. I just started my ASF breeding project and they were supposed to be just a food source, but I ended up getting attached to a couple of the girls.

I had a pet mouse in high school named Shadow who lived for four years. She would chill in a sock on my desk and we would share plain almonds. She was my little buddy. The day she died, I was crying so hard that I couldn't dig her grave myself, so my little brother did it for me.

It was after her death that I started to get into snakes. It never once bothered me that I was feeding the same species of a beloved pet to a new beloved pet. I come from a family that tries to sustain itself over buying. Meaning we have gardens, raise chickens, hunt, etc. Everything has it's place, circle of life and everything else that goes with it. Our dogs earn their keep by doing some sort of work. Even my shih tzu has her place by being worth her weight in gold in being a demo dog for my dog training sessions.

So I suppose it was in the way I was raised. Death never really bothered me. I respect it, but I don't fear it or am disturbed by it. So my short answer is yes, I keep both pet snakes and pet ASF's.