Do petsmart offer live mice feeds?

[Jacob1023]

My petco here doesn't care if you are buying the mice for feeding, but the petsmart only carries frozen. I don't think that the petsmart here even feeds their snakes, judging by looking at them, I think that they think it is inhumane. Can somebody let me know how to switch your BP over to corn on the cob? Been trying but having no luck. I only buy corn that has fallen from the plant though, as I don't want to hurt the plant from picking it.

[dmtrpt11988]

Funny this post came up...I just went to petco the other day since I was desperate to feed my snake. Usually I'd drive down to Chicago Reptile House but since I didn't have my car my mom didn't want to drive there with all the road work on the way. Since I knew I would be busy later I was like okay fine petco. The guy sold me a small rat which was probably closer to a medium but yeah way more expensive...although the price of gas to drive to CRH probably balances it out. They had this really nice Betta though that I ended up getting and is now happy in his 5 gallon home. I haven't been there in years though and nothing has really changed.

[cordell]

Went in to PetCo today for a mouse. I bring in my own container for them, a small critter cage, a worker was standing at the mice with a customer who had a milk snake around them. She asked if she could help me, I said just 1 mouse, she smiles and asks "what flavor does he like, male or female?" LOL

[ChuckSM]

Find a local independant pet store, if they sell snakes then more than likely they will sell feeders without a problem.

[Krista]

I used to work at Petsmart and (at my location anyways) this was their stance on live feers...
They don't sell the live mice and rats as feeders because they (supposedly) give all of the mammals they sell as pets their shots and advantage flea treatments, thus making them harmful to feed to your reptile.

[Fatman]

At the Petsmart I work at we were told it was for the safety of the snakes. Since feeders can cause harm if they fight back. Not to mention that Freezing the rodent will kill any parasite that it might have.
I think the company as a whole sees it as more of an ethical thing though since the only live feeder animals we sell are fish and insects.
We're not even supposed to sell the ghost shrimp to people that plan on feeding them to fish lol...

I don't see a moral issue with it though. I have just heard too many horror stories of prey injuring a snake. I plan on switching mine over to F/T once she is eating normally for me.

[AcePythons]

I go to PetCo as well. They are $3 for a full blown mouse. They also dont care if its snake food, as long as you are on th DL about it, just so other customers dont hear basically. It was funny because last time a new girl was working. She got adoption papers and was starting to ask our names and stuff to fill this adoption paper out. My son (7 years old) blurts out "its just snake food!" LOL The girl left and came back and was like, OK we dont need to fill out the adoption paper. She was a little

LOLOL!! Cute! <3 gotta love kids.

awesome.. for some reason i'm searching sfbay.craigslist.org for breeders i cant seem to find any.. maybe i'm using the wrong keyword.

i'll prolly just go to petco. i like that place though, its cheaper than petsmart

I go into the pets section rather than the general for sale section and just type in feeder or feeders. Usually something comes up. Keep trying cuz you never know when somethin's gonna pop up! Even typing in Ball python or snake will pop something up sometimes.

I will never enter a Petsmart again and here is why...

I went to Petsmart for the first time a few years ago. I looked around for a bit, then asked an employee where the feeder mice where. He stared at me for a second...like I called his mother a bad name, and in the rudest tone ever responded "We don't sell FEEDER mice HERE!" and stormed away.

First and last time I'll ever step foot in their store.

Wow lol 0.o

Funny this post came up...I just went to petco the other day since I was desperate to feed my snake. Usually I'd drive down to Chicago Reptile House but since I didn't have my car my mom didn't want to drive there with all the road work on the way. Since I knew I would be busy later I was like okay fine petco. The guy sold me a small rat which was probably closer to a medium but yeah way more expensive...although the price of gas to drive to CRH probably balances it out. They had this really nice Betta though that I ended up getting and is now happy in his 5 gallon home. I haven't been there in years though and nothing has really changed.

Ooh have fun with your betta! I used to breed them such fun little guys. They all really do have their own personality if you spend enough time watching them!

My petco here doesn't care if you are buying the mice for feeding, but the petsmart only carries frozen. I don't think that the petsmart here even feeds their snakes, judging by looking at them, I think that they think it is inhumane. Can somebody let me know how to switch your BP over to corn on the cob? Been trying but having no luck. I only buy corn that has fallen from the plant though, as I don't want to hurt the plant from picking it.

ROFLMAO!!!

Went in to PetCo today for a mouse. I bring in my own container for them, a small critter cage, a worker was standing at the mice with a customer who had a milk snake around them. She asked if she could help me, I said just 1 mouse, she smiles and asks "what flavor does he like, male or female?" LOL

LOL!!!

I used to work at Petsmart and (at my location anyways) this was their stance on live feers...
They don't sell the live mice and rats as feeders because they (supposedly) give all of the mammals they sell as pets their shots and advantage flea treatments, thus making them harmful to feed to your reptile.

Psh....I bought a pair of rats once as pets from Petsmart and they ended up giving my dogs ear mites, which ended up costing me $400.....never did that again.

Last time I bought a rodent (for my cousin's snake) at Petco it was about $3 and they made me fill out adoption papers each time. I think that as long as you (as someone else said) keep it on the DL, unless you have some uppity manager you should be able to buy live mice from Petco.