Quote Originally Posted by Myenia View Post
I work at petco...and we are definately allowed to admit where these mice and rats are going. We've never made people fill out forms. 90% of the mice and rats we sell are feeders...the only animals we're not allowed to sell as feeders are guinea pigs and gerbils. I've heard from one of our customers that we're the only people they can come to in the area, because if you get mice from petsmart or some other general pet stores...mice are given medicine for their own health as pets, that makes them really bad for snakes to ingest. Petco is a bit costly if you have many snakes.
Myenia, are the people that bring the mice in local people that each store has some sort of contract with? I mean, is there a joe blow that breeds mice in his back yard in each city where there's a Petco and sells them to Petco? or does Petco have contracts with a HUGE breeding facility and ships mice out to each petco around the U.S.?

I'm very curious about this because you, as a ball python owner..or prospective owner..have got to know that the $2.29 per MOUSE is an absolute rip off and I would much rather go straight to the source rather than deal with an overpriced middle man...