Nothing like a verbal assault from Petsmart....

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Feeding frozen is NOT better for the health of your animal. It's a biological fact that nutrients are diminished when most food is frozen. Then you have to wonder if the rodent which was killed or euthanized was immediately flash frozen with dry ice, or was it left to freeze slowly in a freezer? Was it set to the side for a few minutes while the freezing tray was filled with more PK rodents to be frozen? Was there any chance of decomposition between killing and freezing?

Considering that decomposition begins at the moment of death, it's impossible to believe or prove that the frozen rodents supplied by petsmart and petco are flash frozen immediately after being killed.=QUOTE]


I don't care what their company policy is, they are simply wrong. It has nothing to do with how they feel about the animals or animal rights. Otherwise they would know what's healthiest for snakes. Otherwise they would not hold fish and insects lower than rodents.

Remember this fact... Petsmart knowingly contributes to the HSUS. Petco does not. Maybe knowing that will turn some Lightbulbs on upstairs for the reasons behind this "policy".

Also, being pushy or rude or insistent is NOT being a good or helpful sales employee at all.

Nuff said..

This is a great post, I can give a quick story on buying some bad frozen rats at a local show, which I won't mention the exact show because I am sure it happens more than we think. I purchase about 100 frozen small and medium rats at a very fair, but not a fire sale price on the first day of the show. They will all look perfect when frozen, until you thaw them out. Then not only did I notice fleas all over the rats fur, which are very easy to spot on white rats by the way, I also noticed that more than half of them were severely decomposed. I am talking about when you hold a thawed rat, you can feel the weight, well these had none, i felt every rib and shoulder blade, and the tail you could see the vertebrae clear as day. This isn't an overnight condition, so it just sheds some light on possible problems. Needless to say all rodents were tossed and I took a little loss on that situation, but learned a lesson. I have been in pest control 9 years now and would give a guess that they were sitting dead for 2-3 days before they were frozen. How many nutrients do you think I lost there

There are bonuses to feeding frozen though, no worries about bites, mites or worms if they are frozen for I think it was 30 days to kill anything inside off.
Not to mention, I've seen many complaints of said frozen rodents being dirty, having feces, bedding, fleas or mites on them etc..