Keeping MICE VS RATS

[Rhasputin]

I don't think there's really much difference in keeping them, to me I don't like keeping rats because they're more needy, and I feel bad if I don't play with them, and then I play with them and don't want to feed them.

The downside of mice, is that your ball pythons can outgrow them. You'd have to be feeding tons of mice to one snake, instead of one or two rats. I think that's the biggest difference.

[GoingPostal]

I have both, my ball python won't take a rat and my hognose and cat both eat mice also so need them although I would prefer if I could go to just rats. I do feel like rats need more space and interaction than a mouse, being smarter and they smell more to me. I haven't had cannibalism problems in my mice for many years.