Quote: DaButt @ March 31 2010, 1:01 PM BSTMany animals have dual roles as both pets and pet food. What are the laws for purchasing live rats, mice or crickets for feeding snakes and lizards?
Anyone who keeps a snake or a lizard as a pet deserves to go to jail. What kind of a pet is a snake? A shit pet, that's what.
(Maybe jail is a bit harsh, just slapped round the bonce for being a 'damn fool' instead)
Quote: DaButt @ March 31 2010, 1:01 PM BSTMany animals have dual roles as both pets and pet food. What are the laws for purchasing live rats, mice or crickets for feeding snakes and lizards?
No idea.
Quote: chipolata @ March 31 2010, 1:01 PM BSTYou Americans with your quaint disregard for life!
(Although let's not forget she also mistreated a cocateal and was a Rod Stewart fan.)
And she also sold somebody a gerbil in a cup.
Quote: EllieJP @ March 31 2010, 1:04 PM BSTNo idea.
Could you do some research and get back to us?
Quote: chipolata @ March 31 2010, 1:04 PM BSTAnd she also sold somebody a gerbil in a cup.
Ha! That's how they used to come in the olden days, by the cup.
Quote: DaButt @ March 31 2010, 1:01 PM BSTWhat are the laws for purchasing live rats, mice or crickets for feeding snakes and lizards?
Don't think you can buy live ones thesedays, just fresh kill.
Quote: Tim Walker @ March 31 2010, 1:05 PM BSTDon't think you can buy live ones thesedays, just fresh kill.
So, does the shopkeeper stamp on them just before handing it over?
I just did a little bit of investigating and from what I can gather it's not legal to feed snakes live bait.
However, I have seen crickets being fed to a gheko before.
Quote: chipolata @ March 31 2010, 1:04 PM BSTAnd she also sold somebody a gerbil in a cup.
How big was the cup? Besides, those pesky gerbils don't live long enough to warrant my altruistic concern. 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 31 2010, 1:04 PM BSTCould you do some research and get back to us?
Yes.
Quote: EllieJP @ March 31 2010, 1:06 PM BSTYes.
Follow-up question: are you going to do any research?
Quote: EllieJP @ March 31 2010, 1:06 PM BSTYes.
*Waits*
Quote: Tim Walker @ March 31 2010, 1:05 PM BSTDon't think you can buy live ones thesedays, just fresh kill.
I think the insects can be live, but the mice, baby rabbits etc are sold frozen.
It's a weird paradox. I had to keep taking samples of the tank water to be tested by the pet shop before I was allowed to buy goldfish (the water had to be the right PH, etc before I could take the goldfish home), yet I could buy a sea bass from Waitrose and do what the hell I like with it at home.
Can you still buy live crabs and lobsters (to eat not as companion creatures)?
I'm sure Nicholas Cage ate a live cockroach in a film once.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 31 2010, 1:08 PM BSTI could buy a sea bass from Waitrose and do what the hell I like with it at home.
You can buy live fish in Waitrose?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 31 2010, 1:04 PM BSTHa! That's how they used to come in the olden days, by the cup.
From vending machines.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 31 2010, 1:08 PM BSTCan you still buy live crabs and lobsters (to eat not as companion creatures)?
I'm sure you must be able to down your Cockney market, or certainly order one in a restaurant. It would be mighty hypocritical if you weren't allowed to boil a shellfish to death, but were still able to buy foie gras.