Anyone else love keeping feeders?

[Iguanalady]

Keeping my own rats for food is not all that more economical than buying them. Its not easy either. I just really enjoy rats. I have a couple that I won't ever feed off that are favorites. I raise my rat pups right...give them plenty of handling and stimulation and play. When I dispatch them I try to make them feel totally safe and cozy before and try not to let them know what is coming. YEs I am a bit of an oddball I guess. I never have trouble with attachment. If a rat is food it is food. I get a few favs in the babies and sometimes I sell them as pets but if I can't I have no problem with doing the deed when the time comes. The funny thing is that killing an animal for food gives you a whole new perpective on the whole cycle of life and death thing. Its almost spiritual....makes you understand what those early culture really were up to with the whole sacrifice thing. You get this profound sense that you have taken a life for your (or your animals) benefit and makes you respect the creature and its "gift".

Yeah so I'm weird.