I dont wanna go off on a rant, but I stopped by a few local petstores today to buy some mice for my snakes. Ideally, the best size food for them is gonna be a large mouse. The prices for these guys here are $1.89 each. This is a tolerable price for me since Im only buying about 4 at a time, when they are full grown size. But lately, all the mice have been tiny, and tonite really pi$$ed me off because they were BARELY hopper size, and I was still expected to pay full price. I know why full grown mice dont get supplied from stores becuase of the demand, and crowding at the breeding facility. I refuse to raise my own mice sinze first off, the population numbers dont work out with my 5 snakes, and second the ammonia. I've tried gerbils before, but the numbers were all off anyway, so I was still buying to supplement.

Rat pups are non-existant in my area. I could ask for a special order of frozen ones, but that only takes care of 2 of my snakes. All my venomous need live, and I'm VERY frustrated about having to buy 3 times the amount of mice that I should have to buy, if they were fairly priced for size. Does anyone have any feedback on my dilemma?

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