Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
Okay, so we have come to the conclusion. Your mites were rather from the store itself, not the rodent. So it can't be used as a reasonable threat since many thousands of people buy live rodents from pet stores weekly with no infestation of snake mites.
There's no guranteeing that the mites weren't from the bedding the rats were in either. The store pulls the bedding OFF the shelf that mites could have laid nests in. The rats could have carried the eggs in on their fur into my house. Who knows? Nothing is impossible with mites.