Rodent Pro vs Mice Direct, what do you prefer?

[purplemuffin]

I have bought from rodentpro, mice direct, and now the big cheese rodents factory (they are right down the street from me! No shipping!)

For me, big cheese was the best--the rats you get are um, "processed" specifically FOR your order, they don't have a stockpile of frozen rodents where they just grab the size. This means you can even ask for specific orders. I've heard of people with particularly picky snakes who wanted to have gender specific orders and such and they were able to do that for them. They were the freshest rats I had ever seen to be honest, probably because they had only been frozen that morning. Nice clean packaging as well.

I did have a fine experience with both the other companies, but nothing as fresh as the big cheese rodent factory. Getting a call as the order is being first put in the freezer is great and I guess it just made me feel like I was getting better 'meat' for my snakes. Plus I guess since I don't have to pay shipping, that's quite nice as a bonus as well! So I stick with them.

My biggest problems with rodent pro/mice direct---Rodent pro gave me weird sizes in my order. The rat hoppers were sometimes a little bigger or smaller, some were a lot bigger or smaller. It wasn't too big of a deal, but if I had a smaller snake that wasn't still growing, a lot of the larger ones would have ended up being wasted. As far as mice direct, the rodents were fine--maybe a little 'stale' looking compared to what I saw now at big cheese, but certainly hadn't 'gone bad'.. The packaging was funky though.. They were all just sort of tossed into the bag in a big..messy..knot. It would take a good few minutes to pull just one out while undoing the tangled feet and ears and..oh goodness that one's ear just came off because it was frozen to the other one and It was kind of gross at times. Just having to pull them apart and worry if an arm was going to come off it was so tightly attached to the pile. Thankfully our snakes were eating quite a lot of them at the time(we needed a larger size to be honest, so they were eating multiples), so it was okay if you couldn't separate just one and had to pull out 3-4 that were tied together.