Let this be a lesson...

The one time I stopped into my local petstore with OUT my critter keeper, they were out of boxes and get this - put the mice into an empty Krispy Kreme box. The kind with the celophane on it for viewing the donuts. Celophane does not hold mice in well. I'm driving with the mice in the seat next to me, thumping noses to keep them in the box.


Luckily, I live less than a mile from this pet store, but I rushed in the house and dumped glaze covered mice into the critter keeper. I was not amused!

OMG...a donut box...

If I don't have my critter keeper, they usually put the mice/rats in double layer paper bags. Naturally, you have to get them home fast that way...which is why I never forget my keeper :)

wow thank god he didnt get loose in the house

Another problem with the little cardboard boxes is that they don't have very good air flow. I actually had some mice die on the way home once because the pet store put 4 mice in a box, by the time I got home I had a couple of dead ones and everyone was soaked in sweat. A plastic pet carrier is a very good investment if you buy a lot of feeder mice.

Yet another good reason to breed your own.

Mark

Hehe....funny stories!


Once, when I was living in Tucson, I went to the pet store and picked up a mouse and a small rat for feeding my snakies. They always put them in little paper bags with the top stapled shut and then put those in a plastic shopping bag. Not very secure at all, but good enough for me to get home.

Well....this one day, I walked out of the store and saw that the tire on my van was totally flat! I changed it out with the spare that wasn't in much better shape and limped to the nearest tire-change place, which was Sears. It was going to take them over an hour to get to my tire, so I took my bag of rodents (too hot outside, and the last thing I wanted was escaped rodents in the van!) The whole time, I was SO paranoid about them chewing through and escaping into the crowded food court.....while at the same time amusing myself by imagining how people would react to scampering rodents under their feet! :halohorn:

I'd give the bag a little thump every now and then if it sounded like they were chewing and I managed to survive the ordeal and not have any escapes. Whew!

I've taken stapled paper bags of mice into the grocery store (shhhh, don't tell!) before when I've forgotten one thing on my way home from a feeder run...

My worst 'bringing feeders home' story is this. I usually bring two plastic shoeboxes with holes with me on feeders run. That particular day, one tub was to hold a small rat and a hopper mouse. They put the hopper in a double brown paper and the rat rogether in the tub - usually never a problem.

Got home to find that the mouse had eaten his way through the bag...and the rat had eaten his way through the mouse. *sigh*

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Originally Posted by cassandra

I've taken stapled paper bags of mice into the grocery store (shhhh, don't tell!) before when I've forgotten one thing on my way home from a feeder run...

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Haha... I snuck my pet rat in a couple times on the way home from the vet because it was on the way... I always felt like I was doing something super wrong... I stopped in on my way home with my third pet rat as well... The friend I was with kept joking that we should just let him go and see what happened!!! But then we got by the 'household' aisle with all the rodent traps and I decided there was no question of what would.

It is completely ridiculous that they even put rodents into cardboard boxes like that. It is like putting a fish into a plastic bag with holes.

Yikes! Glad it didn't go AWOL!

Will the peanut butter, trash can thing work for wild rats or would they be able to climb out? I saw a rat in my house the other night and, as we all know, where there's one there is generally 1000 :O and I don't want it/them as house mates.

Oh and just in case anyone asks, NO, I would not feed it to my snakes. It would be taken out and relocated.... far from my house.

It's worked for all the wild mice in my past three homes... Just make sure that it's a tall smooth garbage can, and that the cardboard isn't big enough to form a ramp when it falls in, but big enough to hand about 5 - 6" over the edge of the table.

Make sure to release them at least 1.5 miles from your house or they'll just get back in as well.

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Originally Posted by Shadowspider

Yikes! Glad it didn't go AWOL!

Will the peanut butter, trash can thing work for wild rats or would they be able to climb out? I saw a rat in my house the other night and, as we all know, where there's one there is generally 1000 :O and I don't want it/them as house mates.

Oh and just in case anyone asks, NO, I would not feed it to my snakes. It would be taken out and relocated.... far from my house.

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