Lol I hear ya man. When I first got my rats they were supposed to be "just breeders" to make the babies to feed the snakes. That lasted about 5 minutes after we got them through the door lol. Me and my girlfriend had them spread out on the bed crawling all over checking everything out and just having a blast. Another thing they absolutely love is we get these big packing tubes at work so I'll cut some of them up on the bandsaw bring em home and pop em in with them and they'll play around for hours in those things then tear em up and make beds with the cardboard lol.

I love my rats even if it sucks sometimes feeding the babies I've still got my guys and girls (I've got 3.4 right now adopting another female this week from a friend) and it's awesome seeing their different personalities. Good luck with your little guy and girls