When feeders become pets

[redshepherd]

Reading this thread has made it realllly hard for me to keep feeding Nagini lol.

The problem is though that rats were my thing with my ex. We had a pair named Templeton (mine) and Splinter (his). We subsequently broke up because he couldn't keep his hands off other rats. I don't think I'll be able to have a pet rat for awhile because of the association.

I also had this association, because one of my previously supposed good friend (who ended up being a complete ****) had a bunch of pet rats. I almost took pleasure in feeding F/T rats to my snakes because of this association.

Somehow, this little Lucky rat took to my tender side rather than make that association with the bad friend, in my head...