I need to put this to rest. Norway rats can’t escape from a CN, right?
Do you intend to keep wild rats as pets? Wild rats are far more emotionally and mentally content spending their lives in their
natural habitat, as
no wild animal enjoys being kept forcibly captive. (Of course rescue and rehabilitation cases are different, as they are not kept for our entertainment and pleasure purposes, as "pets").
This is also most likely true for snakes as well, as they are also
wild animals and not domestic, and if they had the choice, would in all likelihood prefer to live out their lives in their natural habitats over a tank
.
To make matters worse, the "pet snake" hobby, has turned into a huge industry, and has spawned a massive rat-breeding enterprise, created strictly for "snake food" purposes. Now rats are bred by the thousands/millions -- often in the most atrocious conditions imaginable -- just because people want to keep wild animals like snakes, as "pets", captive in tanks/aquariums for the duration of their lives.
I know about the
rat-breeding snake-food industry, because I was personally involved in reporting one such establishment for horrendous cruelty, where
thousands of rats were kept in "shoe-box-size" containers, 6-12 rats at a time, rows and rows of them, living in their own waste, defecating on each other, forcibly confined, malnourished and leading to terrible consequences that led to cannibalism etc.
This is what goes on and what feeds the "pet-snake" industry -- which in my opinion should be banned and illegal (to keep wild animals captive for our entertainment/pleasure).
If you have not made up your mind about having a "pet" snake, please consider reflecting on all of this before making your choice.