Nothing like a verbal assault from Petsmart....

Needed some bedding for my mice so I went to Petsmart. While I was there I decided to add 2 female mice to my order to replace 2 of my older ones at home. Big mistake, I had to go through 3 employees, one of them was a manager to make the purchase. All 3 grilled me on how "I hope you aren't feeding these to a snake". Makes no sense to me how they can say it is company policy to not use small animals from their stores for feeders when they sell snakes, and sponsor reptile forums. For the heck of it I asked how they feed their snakes and they all said frozen mice. I asked how do you get them and with an attitude was told they come that way. Then I asked if they were born frozen and they got pissed.

I just think that the biggest problem I saw was that they can charge $6.99 for a mouse, and tell me that it must be used as a pet. Even the register girl wanted to know what I was going to name them...

For the record all of my breeders are kept in lab containers with food,water,treats a hide and a wheel which is better than most of their stores keep them.

I would have been pissed. Not everyone has a love for rats. Why would they, they're the ones that caused bubonic plauge and black death that wiped out half the european population.

I feed my BP live, the rest frozen. But I feel zero sadness while feeding it to her.

hahaha, I have gone through the same thing. I honestly think its just to gvie them a reason to charge 7 dollars for a mouse that u could find for 1.99 as a feeder. "they come that way" lmao smh

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Originally Posted by Bellabob

I would have been pissed. Not everyone has a love for rats. Why would they, they're the ones that caused bubonic plauge and black death that wiped out half the european population.

I feed my BP live, the rest frozen. But I feel zero sadness while feeding it to her.

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Fleas carry the plague, not rodents. Rodents, humans, and other mammals all can carry fleas.

Sorry to hear about your experience, your reply to the worker "Are they born frozen?" gave me a good laugh for the day. That is supposed to be all Petsmart policies though, they don't sell any of them as feeder rodents knowingly. Actually, if you can believe it, my local Petsmart has a policy where if you buy mice or rats three weeks in a row, they will ban you from buying them.

thats why you ask who their supplier is and buy direct from the source and pay $.50 each

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Fleas carry the plague, not rodents. Rodents, humans, and other mammals all can carry fleas.

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Originally Posted by Bellabob

I would have been pissed. Not everyone has a love for rats. Why would they, they're the ones that caused bubonic plauge and black death that wiped out half the european population.

I feed my BP live, the rest frozen. But I feel zero sadness while feeding it to her.

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The black rat was the rat that was the plague carrier, the brown rat (the rat we have as pets and feeders) out competed the black rat.

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

thats why you ask who their supplier is and buy direct from the source and pay $.50 each

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LOL that would be ideal, but when I only need a couple to freshen my groups up I don't mind paying extra. Just a funny experience. There is a store maybe 20 miles away that sells mice as feeders, and that Petsmart knew about it and spoke of them like it was a slaughterhouse :D I am all for animal rights, but they sell feeder fish and feeder insects with no hard feelings. I just don't like when people pick and choose to pay attention to something.

And rats and ground squirrels still carry oriental rat fleas which carry plague mostly in California, glad there aren't too many out here.

Glad to see I am not going crazy, thanks guys and gals ;)

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Fleas carry the plague, not rodents. Rodents, humans, and other mammals all can carry fleas.

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No fleas on THIS human!! :taz:

:P

Any store has the right to sell or not sell feeders.

That said, the store employees talking about the feeders coming frozen so it's not the same as selling animals for food is a bit ridiculous. I love your response.

I personally buy elsewhere, since I wouldn't want someone telling I can't sell rutabegas, because they don't believe in selling rutabegas. So who am I to insist that they sell live feeder rodents? They DO offer frozen feeders(at least the stores around here do), so it's not as if they don't offer any food for the reptiles that require rodent prey.