Quote Originally Posted by mckaax View Post
I really do not want to get rid of them at this point. I am just sooo OCD about germs and never have been like this. I have frozen rats in my freezer on the bottom shelf do you think the germs will float in the air and get on her frozen breast milk? I may try to move the rats in the basement with the snakes and just get a small freezer down there so they wont be anywhere near each other.
Sounds like you figured it out on your own....

For now, keeping rats on the bottom shelf is the way to go, and with proper precaution and handling, germ/bacterial transference should not be an issue.