Got Mice?

The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic, Connecticut will happily accept financial donations. But they've recently begun soliciting the public for donations of a more unusual kind: mice. They need them to feed their birds and snakes.

The criteria for us to accept mice from the public is easy: the mice must be dead, chemical- and poison-free, and frozen. We recommend buying the old-fashioned snap-traps at the hardware store, slathering a little peanut butter on it, and setting them where you find mouse droppings. Freeze the mice in zip-close bags in your freezer, and drop them off to us at your convenience!

Apparently the center used to get free mice from a research lab, but that supply has now ended. So they're hoping the public will step up to the plate.

Too bad I don't live in Connecticut, because my cat catches LOTS of mice. Though he usually doesn't kill them. Just brings them inside for us to play with, and I take them back out and release them.

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Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 28, 2014
Category: Animals | Food

Comments

Alex, you bucking for PETAhood?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/28/14 at 10:07 AM

I studied snakes in high school for a science project. Pit vipers in particular want to kill their own food, which means it needs to be alive and warm. Their heat sensors guide their strike, and work best in the dark. No mouse-sicles for the rattlesnakes!

Posted by tadchem on 12/29/14 at 02:49 PM

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