Temptation!

[Ken]

I had an experience today that was a real challenge. I had to clean out the kids' gerbil tank (they piled up bedding against the water stub and emptied the bottle into the bedding).

Well as I was moving gerbils and cleaning, I couldn't help but notice how fat and healthy they looked. They are the perfect size between adult mice and small rats. I found myself thinking about how much my BP would love to have them.

Does that mean I'm a bad dad? Am I loosing my herpin' mind? Can someone do an intervention or something.

This is officially my cry for help.

I'd like to state for the record that all gerbils are alive and accounted for at the present time, and that no rodents were harmed in the making of this post.

:wink:

Ken

[Marla]

LOL! Yep, my older daughter periodically checks to make sure no one is planning to feed her rat to a snake. I keep telling her, "Don't worry! Punkin is much too big for me to feed her to a little ball python!" Heh heh.

[Hockeymom]

yes thats hard, I breed my own mice and rats for my snakes, my 10 year old son keeps picking out ones that I am not suppose to feed because they are too cute. He even names them. I told him to stop playing with the snakes food but he just doesn't get it. I try not to feed them but eventually they gota go. Then when he goes to get them and they are missing he gets mad at me. I tell him that the snakes have to eat too, but he's 10 what are you going to do.

[Marla]

We dealt with that when we bred mice for snake food before by giving them all food names so you couldn't talk about them without being reminded why they were there. "Mom! Look at Fajita! He's standing on Burrito's back! It's so cute!" "Sure is cute, hon, which one do you think Timba wants first?"

[Hockeymom]

Yes currently my sons adopted Rats are peaches, and milk shake.
Hockeymom

[Marla]

Great minds think alike.

[Smynx]

My youngest son is currently keeping 4 mice that were supposed to be food and may yet be at some point in the future. I can't stand the smell, and now that we have 48 frozen mice in our freezer, the chances of the live ones getting eaten are slim. Nevertheless, I still have those thoughts. Worse still, I daydream about the day when Neph is big enough to eat our cat (especially when she pees all over a basket of clean laundry).

[Marla]

Mice do stink, a lot worse than rats. If I breed food again, it will most likely be rats this time. I can't ever see voluntarily feeding a cat to another animal, though, especially since I had a cat get eaten by pit bulls that lived next door to us. Now, if I could have found a good afrock to feed them to, that would be a different story.

[Smynx]

Oh, I don't think I could ever actually do it. If I haven't killed the cat by now, I never will. I even feel a little bad about the frozen mice in my freezer, and they're never peed on my clean laundry.

[Marla]

LOL, yeah, peeing on clean laundry is definitely a big strike against you. I had a cat who'd pee on the pillow of whoever made her mad ... that was ugly!