My wife has a bunch of pet rats. Yep, rats. They actually make pretty good pets. Friendly, don’t eat too much, only live a couple of years, (OK, don’t yell. They breed like crazy and if there is one you don’t like you don’t have to keep them too long. Sheesh.) and make good snake food. Yes, she has a pet snake, but she doesn’t feed the pet rats to it, only the ones she hasn’t