Proper Possum Pedicure

[skb12172]

I'm picturing a neighborhood overrun with hamsters like they were tribbles.

^THIS^

[Netpackrat]

A friend of mine had mice get into his house. He put out the usual traps and poison, but somehow managed to trap one of them alive. Put it in an old aquarium, bought some sawdust and pet mouse accoutrements for it. He enjoyed watching its antics like running in the little wheel, etc. So he went to the pet store and bought a second mouse, a white one to go with the brown one he'd trapped. Then one day not long after that, he didn't get the lid back on the cage properly, and both mice escaped. The net effect being, that he went to the pet store, and bought a mouse to infest his house with. Served him right for having named his pet mice after me and Mrs. NPR.

[Weetabix]

Served him right for having named his pet mice after me and Mrs. NPR.

I named the mice that I fed to my snake after luncheon meats. I figured a good name wasn't important given the short duration of their stay.

[Kommander]

Funny story:

The girlfriend and I were at a pet store looking at rats to purchase as a pet. The girlfriend was carefully looking them over and cuddling each one. A guy walked up, had the pet shop employe box him up a random rat, and left. The girlfriend was quite confused as to why someone would pick out a pet without even giving it a once over. The pet store employee and I then had to carefully explain that the rat had not been sold as a pet but rather pet food. The look on her face...

We ended up with ferrets.

[Denis]

Funny story:

The girlfriend and I were at a pet store looking at rats to purchase as a pet...

We ended up with ferrets.

Did you get some rats too? Ferrets love rats.

[Kommander]

Honestly I think ours would just try to play with them. There are some big differences between US and European ferrets. There is also the fact that ferrets "imprint" on their food so getting them to eat something else is quite a chore. We have thought about it as mice are pretty cheap but I don't know what I would do with the mouse if they didn't eat it.

[Weetabix]

but I don't know what I would do with the mouse if they didn't eat it.

Find a high building. Set a cup of water on the ground beside it. Go to the top of the building with the mouse.

Presto! Acapulco mouse diving.

[Note to rodent-lovers: This was the owl keeper's hobby. I was just a bystander.]

[Windy Wilson]

GF's cousin kept a pet rat. My brother had a pet snake he found in the local mountains, and he fed it the feeder mice from the local pet store whose clientele included keepers of snakes. We never made GF witness the denouement of the mouse, but I think she thought too much about mice and rats being cousins themselves, as she did say once that she would have liked it better if we fed the snake something lower on the food chain (like a boiled egg).
Dunno how the snake was supposed to recognize that as food, lacking a nose, ears, paws and a tail as it does. I suppose eventually hunger would, to quote my dad, "drive it down."