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pikiemikie
at Sun Feb 27 15:45:05 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pikiemikie ]
For people who buy their live mice every week in pet shops. When you come home with that mouse, there is a chance that you have brought home a hitchhiker. It only takes one pregnant female reptile mite, to infect your whole colony of snakes. These can be picked up from the counter, money , rubbing against something,from an employee who was working on the infested snake cages, then helps you, or just a mite that has strayed into the mouse cages by accident. Also to consider with live mice is internal parasites, that can be transmitted from mammal to reptile ( I beleive these are few and far between, but there all the same). I get nervouse just buying dog food for my dog in these places. So,frozen thawed is the only way we go. Thanks, CHRIS' COLUBRIDS
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