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Hi all is anyone else struggling to get large quantities of medium and large mice?
Every company i have tried seem to have a major shortage not good when i need 350 medium and large mice
is anyone else having problems??????????????
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Old 11-03-2008, 11:26 PM
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Hi

yeah.
I have found that several places have no stock at the moment.

But I have 600 medium mice being delivered tomorrow
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Hi all is anyone else struggling to get large quantities of medium and large mice?
Every company i have tried seem to have a major shortage not good when i need 350 medium and large mice
is anyone else having problems??????????????
Just go down <our local pet shop> Piercer, ask for 350 large rats.... those are only about as big as medium mice last time I got some.
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Old 12-03-2008, 07:26 AM
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Yep same here, I've tried everywhere for large/jumbo mice and they're all having troubles getting some. I'm having to get them from my local shop at the moment at 95p per large mouse!! Not good when I'm buying 20+ each week.
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Old 12-03-2008, 07:40 AM
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same with rat fluffs, i need a few hundred but everyone was out last week, il ring round again today.
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Its a real pain in the bum especially when they cant even offer a substitute Not a rant i know companies are in high demand but it just makes life hard work
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Hi all is anyone else struggling to get large quantities of medium and large mice?
Every company i have tried seem to have a major shortage not good when i need 350 medium and large mice
is anyone else having problems??????????????
I haven't had a problem but I restocked a couple of weeks ago and also produce my own to keep topped up if needed.
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Old 12-03-2008, 06:45 PM
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I got 500 mice from pro rodents last week, no problem.
I thought there was a shortage of rat weaners ?
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I believe (and feel free to correct me if this is wrong) that the problems are mainly due to a change in legislation that now makes it far harder to breed rodents to sell to the public once dead. This means that most of the stocks are now being shipped from Europe and America...
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Hi yes you are right ally i know alot are being imported at the moment i have tried all that are on the frozen food post in food classifieds and no1 has everything i need

Hogboy do you have a link to pro rodents please?
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