Of all animals, small rodents such as mice and hamsters are the most vulnerable to abuse, by far. Mice, rats, and hamsters are cheap, mass bred, replaceable, easy to obtain, defenseless, small, and have no purchase restrictions.
Anyone with 6 bucks can go in a Petco, say they need a live feeder mouse for their pet snake (existent or nonexistent) and get a live mouse in their possession with no questions asked. All that Petco stores do is require customers to fill out a paper form which is filed away under the cash register. There's no reason for this, except virtue signalling. Employees don't even check the files before selling to a customer. There's no electronic database to restrict sales across stores; someone who got banned from one store could just make a longer drive to another.
Its very possible that there are people out there with sick hobbies of killing mice for fun. All they have to do is say they have a pet snake, and they can buy as many live mice as they want. There are several news articles about sickos who bought a live rodent from a petco or petsmart, then tortured it to death on camera. This is just the tip of the iceberg, most people who do this wont post it online to get busted.
Petco stores will sell a hamster for 18 bucks to someone who admitted to accidentally killing their previous hamster by forgetting to feed it. This has been tested with undercover phone calls. Employees are not allowed to refuse sale. Managers will side with the customer because profits are important to corporate. Theoretically they would be happy to sell a new hamster every week to someone who repeatedly kills them, accidentally or "accidentally".
Theres obviously a huge vulnerability in the animal trade, so why does no one talk about this? The internet has very little discussion on small rodent abuse.
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