I keep pet rats. I've been looking around for a pet store that sells rats as pets other than the two big stores. Looking at the website for Jim's Pet World, they seemed to say all the right things to make you think they sell rats and mice and know how to care for them. \r
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So I drive out to the store and look around for the rats, when I don't find them, I ask the lady working there and she leads me to a backroom where they had piled all the rats into fish tanks as either large or small and that they view them as feeders, even though they are clearly fancy rats (pet) and not feeder rats. It was admitted that what I do with the rat after I take it home was up to me and that I should ""consider a small one"" since they are not handled at all. I cannot and will never recommend this place for anyone interested in small exotics.
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