/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15824362
I would say Greybeard was on the older side. I had him for almost 20 months and he was oldish when I got him (full grown and the worker at the store said he had been there for a while, I never asked how long though)

Sometimes rodents will only live a year or even just shy of a year and sometimes you get a freak rat that lives to be 4. But usually its around 1-2 years. He started deteriorating about a month before we had him put down. It was kind of slow, but once he dropped from a healthy 40+grams to 25 and no longer eating or drinking I couldn't watch him suffer. He actually looked relaxed when he was euthanized. It was nice to say goodbye and he is resting in a very nice serene place in a cairn where I can continue to serve him by brining him rocks and goodies for him.

Regardless a rodent is a pretty unique experience unlike any cat or dog I ever had. They really are creepily intelligent and sociable for such a short lived creature.
Ratty is so cute, I really do want a mischief of rats someday but I would really need a good cage and free range area. Knowing me I'd probably be a psycho and give them a rat proofed room or something. Rats seem really, REALLY cool. You should check out ShadowTheRats youtube. She has great advice and her rats are soooooo cute!

Thanks for the pics of ur rat~ shes perfect~<3

>>15756736
Tru.

It's kind of weird how I bawled like a baby all day when I had my pet mouse euthanized to end his suffering, but I only get kind of sad when I kill the mice in snap traps after trying with live traps for so long.

I guess its no different than having a pet dog you love but killing a feral dog that is a direct threat.

>>15644447
I wouldn't eat a feeder rodent for snakes. They are given shit food and aren't raised very well.

If I were to eat a rodent Id want it fattened on grain or wild caught in a non urban environment. The only way I'd eat a squirrel is if it was becoming a pest that had to be killed because it was evading live traps, or someone else offered me one for eating. Squirrels are my favorite animals and I would hunt other (larger) animals before I'd go after a little nutty fucker.

I actually caught a mouse in a snap trap today and was actually thinking about it. But it had been there for a few hours.

And like >>15644456 said rabbits aren't rodents. I have eaten rabbit and it is quite good in a nice creamy stew with some carrots and potato and onion, along with nice aromatic herbs and spices.


Would you believe I'm actually a huge rodent lover? I feel a strong kinship with them.

>>15559380
I stopped drinking coffee after my best friend died.

>>15145025
That's because he was better than any living creature.

I'm not a soft person by any stretch of the imagination. The day after he was euthanized I slaughtered livestock without any distress whatsoever. A few weeks later I had to kill a mouse in a snap trap because she wouldn't go into any of my live traps, but nothing felt worse than putting down my lil homie.
I had to put him down outside on the back of my pickup, I held him while he passed and the moment he died it rained on us. I have trouble crying. I tend to not cry during moments I should cry.
I cried the entire day I lost my lil homeslice.

>>15033633
I know. He was a true homie

>>15021050
>op asks for disgusting food thread
Board transforms into /an/ rodent thread

>>15007772
thank you for speaking the truth orangutan fren.

Although I don't get the soap taste, they just taste bland... and vaguely green to me.

>>14993035
No he was a mouse and he died of old age and genetic complications. I had quit coffee the day he died. and drinking coffee will just remind me of him.

He was the tightest homie on the planet.