Yea Petsmart is weird like that. When I went in to purchase a male mouse to use as a breeder, my friend kept telling me it was so mean to kill off his to be babies. I actually had to sign a paper saying I would not mistreat the animal (that included feeding him to a snake) and everything. I told her I would take good care of the male, but his babies were another story. Its crazy. I wish we could bring up a point about live foods. They sell live crickets and pre-packaged dead crickets so what is the difference in selling live mice as feeders . Is it because they are mammal? Arg! Good luck with finding the live mice you need. Its hard here too believe it or not. We have Petco (far drive), Petsmart (no live feeders), Off the Ark (long drive) and the new petstore that I can't remember thier name (bad store).