Snakes are even weirder imo. At least Rodents are warm and fuzzy.
While in the Air Force, my Roomie and I bought two pythons, one W African Ball python and a Beautiful Burmese, (not at the same time, because they both died; after the second one we quit)
We had an empty aquarium to keep the smaller Burmese in, and we'd buy small white rats to feed it.
We charged 25¢ admission for our Dorm mates to come and watch when we'd feed them ha ha