What a waste...

So I went to the All-MD show yesterday and bought a bag of 50 mice for $30 which I thought was a pretty good deal... until I got them home and realized that the idiot who sold them and packed them had SLIT THEIR THROATS to kill them.

First... who in the hell has the time or inclination to sit there and slit tiny mouse throats for hours at a time?

Second... why the hell would you do this for frozen/thawed prey, knowing that when you thaw it, the blood seeps out, makes a huge mess, and THEN when it's placed in the animals viv, the blood gets all over the effing place??

I am so pissed off about this and am kicking myself for not looking at them more closely... but seriously, who the hell kills mice this way?!

Ummmmm I'd say someone in the verge insanity who possibly might be a serial killer. Lol

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Was it a named vendor? I would hate to buy feeders at a show and be...surprised that way.

plus I personally wouldn't want to fund someone like that. But that's just me.

I mean slitting throats is a way people slaughter larger animals but would have never thought it would be feasible with mice lol. I would think they should still be usable other than the mess factor.

Ive heard stories of this nature before. People will sell off lab mice that they have bled for research purposes for feeders. Not only messy but less nutrition I'm sure.

No idea what the guys name is, but he's apparently the "regular" guy in the back corner closest to the door at the All-MD show. My jungle corn refused the mouse entirely and my big normal BP enjoyed making a complete mess with his. :cens0r:

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Originally Posted by boaguy

Ive heard stories of this nature before. People will sell off lab mice that they have bled for research purposes for feeders. Not only messy but less nutrition I'm sure.

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Usually Lab Specimens will be exsanguinated via a cardiac stick (after the animal is killed via CO2 and Cervical Dislocation, a small needle is used to remove the blood directly from the heart). Slitting the throat isn't a sterile method of blood collection, and thus has very little place in Laboratory Medicine. I've worked in Lab Animal Medicine before, and most protocols won't let the bodies just be sold off as feeders....do you know what the facility was researching??

my question would be why? Mephiboshbeth already said thats not the way a reputable lab draws blood from mics and rats, plus labs have to dispose of their specimens in accordance with hazardous biological protocols. What I'm wondering is what in the world is going on here? Makes me wonder if the man is some kind of sadist.

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Originally Posted by lorrainesmom

my question would be why? Mephiboshbeth already said thats not the way a reputable lab draws blood from mics and rats, plus labs have to dispose of their specimens in accordance with hazardous biological protocols. What I'm wondering is what in the world is going on here? Makes me wonder if the man is some kind of sadist.

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Yeah. It is definitely creepy.

Weird.