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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
As long as they are properly confined in a cage, why do you care?
Some folks keep rats as pets, not food for other things. I knew someone who did. I enjoyed playing with it. Lots of things besides snakes will happily eat rats. Keeping them in a cage is a way to prevent that.
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Dennis
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Yes. Maybe they are indeed pets, outside for some fresh air and sunshine. I wish I had an easy-ish method like that for the furballs, who simply CANNOT go outside. Too many predators. Cats have an
extremely short expected lifespan in our neck of the woods if they live outside. As in, days. Between coyotes (primary predators), Great Horned Owls that are truly shockingly large (I'm pretty sure that they would not mess with our male, but the female...), and, of course, rattlesnakes. Yes, really, and 2 years ago, we had one living beneath our front porch, so...not imaginary.
I've considered making the patio into a catio, but, a) it's large (72' x 12) and thankfully covered, and b) it wouldn't keep the snakes out at all, nor scorpions or other things. {sigh}
I've played with rats. Quite
smart, really. And fun.
Hitch