When was the last time you picked up the phone and placed an order for a bag of frozen mice or three, and when they arrived in dry ice, tossed them in the freezer next to your frozen chicken and ready-to-cook french fries, and gone about your day? Wait a minute, you're not planning on touching anything with those hands now are you? Looking up frozen mice for sale isn't as safe a business as it used to be. That's what we're hearing now from the public health authorities who have finally found out what's been causing a rash of salmonella infections around the country in the most unlikely places.
What tipped them off was that they discovered that every one of the hundreds of people who were sickened had an unusual fancy for dangerous pets - snakes and the like. Think about it - there's dog food, there's cat food, there's even fish food; if you owned a pet snake, what exactly would you feed it? That's where the frozen mice companies come in. It is their business to take out little newborn mice in their millions, freeze them, pack them in dry ice and send them out to pet-owners around the country. And if you have to know, they also freeze cute little freshly-hatched chickens for this market. It's just another day in the life of the world of the owners of exotic pets and their suppliers. There is a way out of looking up frozen mice for sale of course - you could go over to the exotic pet supply store and get live mice. But you would then have to look for pet food for the mice. And it would be a whole lot more uncomfortable - seeing the hunting and the squealing from the prey happening in your own house.
The trouble is, that companies offering frozen mice for sale are such a rare and niche business that health authorities haven't really paid attention to them. They just didn't realize people would be taking a bag of dead mice and putting it in the fridge for weeks next to their own food. Pet food doesn't attract the kind of strict food safety measures that food for human consumption does. But now that there have been so many salmonella outbreaks around coming from these mice, companies offering frozen mice for sale are beginning to voluntarily radiate their mice the way they do regular meat headed for the supermarket.
If you happen to be an exotic pet owner, make sure that your frozen mice comes nowhere near the kitchen or anything edible meant for people. And make sure that you always wash your hands after you're done feeding your pets.
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