Re: Bloated, smelly rat - throw it away?
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Originally Posted by
purplemuffin
With pet store rats you have no guarantee how long they have been there, or how often they were defrosted(human error of unplugging fridge, left out too long before put in fridge, etc.) so you can get nasty stuff!!
I was SO turned off of f/t at first when we bought those' arctic mice' from petsmart..First off it was more expensive than the live rats at the other store, next it smelled AWFUL, and then half of them were SMASHED!!! One came with a shattered skull and a bloody bag, another had an already ripped open stomach. It was like they had just taken a mallet to the dang things and frozen the remains! Nasty. None of them were fed to our snakes. We wasted so much money because we kept trying, hoping we'd get a good batch this time.. Nope!! My experience buying them online has been infinitely better!! :O
Ah, that explains it! I guess I was pretty lucky that more of the rats I bought at the pet store weren't bad. I'm almost through with that bunch and now I'll stick with Layne Labs. I was lucky to find someone on line that sells small enough quantities for me! :)
