When you have a variety of pets, as I do, you end up going to the pet food store on a regular basis, and even if you are the sort of person who avoids the big-box pet food stores, you might end up going there to buy mice. Mice intended for the feeding of snakes come in fresh or frozen, and even when you have a regular supplier of them, they don’t always have a regular supply. Small snake meals require the purchasing of “pinkie” mice, which are frozen new-born baby mice. Larger snakes eat more pinkies or larger mice, depending on what you can get. Frozen seems like a nice option until you have to defrost them, and the microwave is no place for a mouse, dead or alive. So eventually you come the to the point where you buy live mice, small ones, and experience the thrill and joy of my much younger self, coming home with a critter in a tiny cardboard box with holes. When you ask the sales people for help, they always want to know if the mouse is to become a pet or food. I’ve never understood why. I did on more than one occasion have the mouse escape in the car while I was driving back from the pet food store.
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