Be aware of where you get your frozen rodents. Cheap is not always good. I used to get frozen rats and mice from an unamed herp organization when I lived in N.Y. One time while thawing some out a rats skin came apart and we noticed the rat had a stomach staple. We (me & my wife) asked ourselves the obvious question of "why does this rat have a stomach staple?". Of course we concluded that since this unamed organizatio was based near an un-named university we a medical school, these must have been lab-surplus rodents. As if stomach staples aren't bad enough we wondered what other experiments they may have been subjected to. The un-named organisation represented these rodents as being raised by resdents of a home for men with severe brain injuries as a method of rehabilitation. I have raised my own rodents because of this and for other various reasons ever since. I am not saying obviously that all frozen rodents are bad as there are many reputable breeders out there. I am just saying to beware of the lowest common denominator. If I had not seen this for myself I would have never thought of such a thing btw.

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• Size of prey. - Roger Van Couwen, Thu Oct 18 08:51:33 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - MadAxeMan, Thu Oct 18 09:48:28 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - nile_keepr, Thu Oct 18 12:44:11 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - ChadLane, Thu Oct 18 14:31:09 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - se7en, Thu Oct 18 17:42:23 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - Roger Van Couwen, Fri Oct 19 09:23:30 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - Roger Van Couwen, Fri Oct 19 09:21:11 2007
• RE: Size of prey. Cost. - Roger Van Couwen, Fri Oct 19 09:06:50 2007
• RE: Size of prey. - holygouda, Thu Oct 18 19:02:35 2007
• I have always liked small prey items. - SHvar, Fri Oct 19 11:32:26 2007
• RE: I have always liked small prey items. - MadAxeMan, Fri Oct 19 12:33:33 2007
• You have to know your source or. - SHvar, Fri Oct 19 23:18:30 2007