Needed some bedding for my mice so I went to Petsmart. While I was there I decided to add 2 female mice to my order to replace 2 of my older ones at home. Big mistake, I had to go through 3 employees, one of them was a manager to make the purchase. All 3 grilled me on how "I hope you aren't feeding these to a snake". Makes no sense to me how they can say it is company policy to not use small animals from their stores for feeders when they sell snakes, and sponsor reptile forums. For the heck of it I asked how they feed their snakes and they all said frozen mice. I asked how do you get them and with an attitude was told they come that way. Then I asked if they were born frozen and they got pissed.
I just think that the biggest problem I saw was that they can charge $6.99 for a mouse, and tell me that it must be used as a pet. Even the register girl wanted to know what I was going to name them...
For the record all of my breeders are kept in lab containers with food,water,treats a hide and a wheel which is better than most of their stores keep them.