[Mhera]

I know we, as a website community are entirely against petstores for breeding guinea pigs, but what about mice that are bred for snake food? I myself buy mice from a store that's not one of the huge commercial petstores, she breeds them in her store and are taken care of fine. That's the only live thing she sells. They also do the occasional adoption if someone drops off an animal. Is this the kind of petstore we are looking to support?

In fact, petsmart only sells frozen mice that are treated with chemicals that might make the snake sick.

In fact, I guess the real question is, is the mouse a pet when you buy it or is the snake a pet? It's rather unfair for the snake to eat dead-for-a-while-popsicle-mouse, which was a mouse to begin with and died probably in a less natural way.

Not to scare you about the snake pet thing, my snake is kept in a different room and is too small to eat guinea pigs. And we adopted her.