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Things You Don't Need to Know

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, 12-30-2011 at 06:50 PM (1019 Views)
I had to get a mouse for my snake today, and I have always gone on the presumption that the mice they give you had been bread specifically with the purpose of using them as feeder mice and while some of them might be today when I went in to get my my mouse, they guy who was working there felt the need to tell me that the mouse I was going to feed my snake used to be someones pet but it got too big. Now what kind of sadistic mind really thinks I need to know that about the mouse I am about to feed my snake? Gee I am so glad to know I am giving my snake some one's rejected pet.

Now I am feeling bad for the mouse. If I had more money on me I might have been tempted to buy another mouse for the snake and keep the first one for myself as a pet, but they cost 2.99 so I only had 3 bucks with me thinking that is all I would need. So now I was kind of stuck, becasue I wasn't going to ask the guy to get another mouse becasue it would just make me look silly and well if I didn't give it to my snake than it would just end up being eaten by someone else's pet sooner or later. And there are not a whole lot of women who visit the reptile store, so I wasn't going to appear irrational and over sentimental about having to feed mice to my snake.

So in the end I had to give someones former pet to my snake for dinner.
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  1. MystyrMystyry's Avatar
    Some dilemma Dark Muse. Why not just give it hen's eggs and keep the mouse? Though it was probably old and would soon decease itself anyway (if it's a big mouse it's usually very old or an escapee from a radiation research lab )

    If it's any consolation I think you made the right choice - though it's a shame you had to learn about it's history. But tell me has there ever been any discussion of what you do with the mice? He may have innocently thought you wanted it as your own pet
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry

    If it's any consolation I think you made the right choice - though it's a shame you had to learn about it's history. But tell me has there ever been any discussion of what you do with the mice? He may have innocently thought you wanted it as your own pet[/COLOR]
    It is a store that deals almost exclusisively in selling reptiles and food for reptilies, so when you go up to the counter and ask for one adult mouse, and they place it in a little paper bag and hand it to you, there is no mistaking what the mouse is going to be used for.

    As to the first point, corn snakes don't eat eggs.
  3. Virgil's Avatar
    That's sad, though I guess any living mouse enjoys his life and would not want to die.