petsmart feeder problems

[poseyof5]

I live in a smalll town we have two small pet stores.. One is a group of 18 year old girls who are selling hoppers mice as full grown $3 each.. The other is a family owned pet been open for years they take care of their animals for the most part well. Both want $6 dollars for small rat.. I checked the notice board on the walls and found a local girl who breeds them for herself and her bother both have multisnakes.. She cost me 1 per large full grown mouse.. i got lucky..

[littleindiangirl]

You don't have to tell them your feeding them off. And if they ask you next time, get all disgusted and ask to speak to a manager, then give the manager hell. (Have a good reason why you continue to buy mice of course) That's what I would do, what are they gonna do? Stop selling to you? Eh, whatever I say.

[eternalfrost]

(Have a good reason why you continue to buy mice of course) \.

such as?

[NightLad]

where do people get 'lab rats'? there are two big universities in town (cornell and ithaca college) any chance i could maby buy them from the psychology labs or something? hah

I’m not sure about that one. Rats used in Universities often come from one department to another, and you don’t know what they or their parents have been through. A good friend of mine is finishing a PhD in Genetics, and the rats they experiment on are often engineered with all types of ‘quirks’ to assist in testing and experiments.

While measures exist to protect against such animals getting into the general populous, I’d not flirt with chance. Accidents do happen, and I’m sure the last thing you’d want is for your snake to pay the price.

(Although, if comic books have taught me anything, it is that a slim chance might exist for Mr. Snake to develop mutations and super-powers after eating such a rat. Hmm….)

In any event, why not buy through an online frozen-feeder store and have them delivered to your door? (That's what I plan to do, since somebody I live with has allergies to furry animals, so breeding my own/keeping live ones is not an option.)

www.rodentpro.com/
www.themousefactory.com/
www.micedirect.com/
www.frozenrodent.com/

Hope that helps!

[littleindiangirl]

such as?

Be creative. Here's one, Tell them that you liked the first one so much, you built a huge play pen for them, and it's just become an addiction. Sorry for spending money at their store!!! Right? LOL, I think that if you tell off the manager, and threaten to call corporate, they will leave you alone. No one likes to get a visit from corporate.