im a bit pissed off.
i am a massive animal lover and i have a house full of waifs and strays. last year i rescued 7 rats from the adoption centre at pets at home and needed a couple of boy rats to keep one of the rescues company.
i travelled miles and bought 2 from a breeder.
i care very much for all my animals and the rats have led a life of riley! they are spoilt rotten. they get the best food, i buy them fresh fruit and veg along with expensive dry mixes, they get lots of cuddles and they come out to play most days.
recently i rescued 3 kittens that had been found abandoned for dead in a rented house, they had been shut in a cupboard.
i took them in and am treating them for flu, ive wormed them, etc etc.
so i now have 5 cats and 2 dogs, i had 9 rats (now down to 6 
)
my boy rats are massive and bigger than the rescue kittens. the other day i let them meet each other and took a few cute pictures, which i posted on FB. all my animals need to live in harmony.
the breeder of the rats commented on my fb pics and ranted at me saying i was wrong to mix predator and prey.....well no one told them they were predator and prey and they were fine together, just as my dogs are fine with my cats.
breeder ranted on my pics and said she didnt like it especially as she had bred 2 of the rats.
i sent a polite message apologising and saying they were never in any danger and i supervised them for the whole meeting which lasted less than a minute.
i got another snotagram back.
so now im a bit sick of biting my tongue and ive basically said if you breed animals for profit and sell them you get sod all say from then on in unless its an issue of cruelty. ive asked if she follows every single one of her sales to check they are being properly cared for....
my animals are spoilt rotten. id never mistreat or hurt them and they are pampered pets....
its pissed me right off that she has seen fit to comment and chide me over fb when she sells rats for a tenner a throw....
if you breed and sell animals for profit i think you lose the moral high ground in their upbringing from there on in.
its nice that she is bothered enough to comment but really.....if she is that bothered she should stop breeding and selling them. im betting that there are rats out there she bred that are far worse off than mine....
ive been quite restrained so far but would i be unreasonable to tell her to piss off and bother someone else....?
id have liked more rats but i get the feeling im now off her xmas card list....