Buying female breeder mice online????

Does anyone know where I can buy LIVE mice online? My local pet store only sells male mice and it's getting expensive to buy live feeders for my three BPs. I have Googled my butt off for the last three days and I can't find anything.

It's illegal to ship live rodents (or most animals- nonvenemous reptiles and poultry are the only exceptions) by any mail carrier service, so the only way to have them shipped would be to fly them via delta in a carrier on a plane and pick them up at the airport. That's obviously insanely expensive for mice.

Well...dang. Where can I buy female mice then?

Beats me. I know in our area people were losing their crap trying to find MALES (all the box petstores in an area seem to only stock one gender to prevent breeding). Check locally owned petshops, and maybe look into making some calls out of your area but within driving distance to see if they stock the girls. You might also try craigslist, just in case somebody out there has one they're willing to let go as foundation breeding stock.

(Also I was not quite complete, before someone corrects me. Amphibians and fish can also be shipped (variably) if I remember right. Mammals are still right out though.)

Craigslist currently has rats near me but no mice. The pet store here has all male rats and mice and hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, etc. The only female rodent they have is a beautiful solid white chinchilla. I have a female mouse and one male but I would like to get a few more females. I am willing to drive just about anywhere at this point. My snakes turn their noses up at frozen mice and ignore the rats and pups I have. The ONLY thing they will eat right now is live mice and I'm seriously tired of spending $20 every week to ten days for male fancy pet mice.

It's not ideal or fast, but if I were you I'd feed the males you can produce off for a bit (maybe hold one or two back), keep the female babies you want and line breed like mad. Keep looking for females meanwhile, but at least you'll have an end in sight instead of being stuck with those food bills indefinitely.

A friend of mine has two male mice. Maybe I can persuade him to let me use them to 'stud' to prevent inbreeding. Anything is better than what I'm doing now.

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Originally Posted by KaylaCHERiE

A friend of mine has two male mice. Maybe I can persuade him to let me use them to 'stud' to prevent inbreeding. Anything is better than what I'm doing now.

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Wouldn't be a bad idea, though you shouldn't have too many problems anyway. Heck, just use one of those feeders you CAN buy of whatever gender and introduce it to the mix AND use the boy mouse of your friend's as a 'stud' for a generation.

I have to say. You're pretty awesome CptJack. Tha K you so much.

You're welcome, and good luck!

Petsmart usually only carries male or female mice. It differs between stores. So if you call the next closest store, you might find that they have females. (even though petsmart isn't the best stock you can buy..)

You can also look for petcos, they usually do the same thing. Or try posting a wanted ad on CL.

If you keep an eye on craigslist, you are likely to find someone with mice for sale/rehoming eventually. But really, since you have one female, that's all you need to get started, as long as she turns out to be a good enough mother to raise up a few babies. If not, and you are really desperate, you could even bottle raise some babies, but that's a lot of work.

Don't worry too much about inbreeding. As long as you feed off any that have noticeable problems and only keep back the healthiest ones for breeding, it shouldn't be an issue. You can always introduce new blood by bringing in an occasional new male.

Join a rat group local to your area on FB. I met quite a few people by doing that. Actually picked up some rats from a lady today. If I ever get a mouser and have to breed mice I'll be getting my mice from her too. She had some awesome fawn brindle ones. I seriously was thinking of breeding them just for the color.