well i too breed my own rats and my 5 almost 6 year oldson not only watches me feed but helps me out sometimes he has even feed them once or twice and he love animals. in fact over the weekend just befor bed he started crying for no reason and when we got it out of him why he was crying he said that he was thinking of his old hamster teddy and he was sad. but he knows what snakes eat and he seems fine with it even to the point of jumping around when he get to help.
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Jamie: You are so right about that. I'm seriously hoping I can have Elphie switched over to f/t by the time we need to move up to rat babies, because of how freakishly cute they are.
Everyone: Thank you all so much! I am going to take every word of this under consideration, and discuss it with my husband before making the big decision.
I think it's awesome you are so carefully considering it. Personally, I think it will be great, when the time is appropriate for your son, to see the snake eat and begin to understand more about life and biology.
I think about a couple of guys I work with; one has been so secluded his entire life, even at 30 years old, so many things he's never heard of or even thought about. He goes through life not questioning anything because I don't think he was challenged growing up.
Another guy I work with just seems to deny that meat comes from animals and doesn't like looking at pictures of carnivores eating nor even thinking about it...but he himself is an omnivore. Dude, time to think outside the box, k?
Even Rick doesn't like handling the live prey before we feed the girls...he says because he doesn't like. I think it's because he's afraid he'll get attached and can't "do it".
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