At my local pets mart you have to sign a paper saying you won't treat them inhumanly but they are marked and sold as feeders and they know why you got the rat. they were prob being rude cause the clerk had a rat as a pet or something. My 6 year old daughter wanted to keep a mouse feeder as a pet, so cute with his pink eyes. Then it crapped in her hand and I explained that's just what mice do, so she fed it to her snake! Dosent like mice anymore![]()