A question of morals

My pet store will put a pregnant one in once in awhile. Last time I asked why they would do it and they said they had eatin their first litters so they just sell em off as feeders.

i've picked up pregnant mice before... always save them to birth.

but... i have a rule... no cute mice allowed (as then the kids want to keep them as pets LOL) so now when i go into the petstores i frequent... they come out and say, "got you the ugliest mice we could find" LOL

Oh yes. I can't do cute mice.
NO broken patterns. Either solid white, solid black or solid brown. No splotches or pinto mice, then I want to keep them.

ahhhh it's nice to have company :hug:

Yes. The 'Say No to Cute Mice' club. :rolleye2:

Then again I'm the same person that buys two of everything so they don't get 'lonely' (two cans of corn, two pens, two skillets.....).

Personally I don't like to feed off rodents close to giving birth. Seems a bit of a waste to me to not allow the birth and raise the litter therefore getting more feeders and a small kindness to a breeding female. What bothers me is any employee of a store refusing to give good customer service. It's your buying dollar, and your decision as to what you want to feed your snakes. I would complain to management based on that fact. It could have been some half-dead, sickly rodent...would you have been expected to buy it because some employee says you must. In the end the pet store is there to serve your purchasing needs and the employee should have respected your decision.

I'm probably going to be the odd one out saying I would not want to feed a preggo mouse to my snakes, nor would I want to keep and raise feeders as my own. As I get attached.

I would demand that she change the mouse out, or just have left right then and there if she wouldn't. Then again, I don't feed live so I don't have to deal with petstore people.