Mission Statement
The mission of Mousdom Mousery is to raise mice in a humane, safe, mentally stimulating environment, and to provide them with a quality life while upon this planet. The mice receive human and mouse companionship, the best medical attention available, and quality feed, bedding and toys. When it is required that a mouse be used as a feeder it is the mission of the Mousery to provide each mouse with a humane ending with as little pain and distress as possible before being used as food.
Mousedom is a mousery dedicated to the improvement of the
mouse through selective breeding. The mousery was started up as a feeder colony
of mice. Now the mice are
also going to petshops as fancy pets in addition to those being used as
feeders. Many people would say that feeding mice to snakes is an abhorrent
practice. There is no inherent added value in one life versus another. Both the
snake and the mouse have the right to exist. However nature, in her wisdom,
ordained that some animals will exist at the expense of other animals’ lives.
It is the natural order and it is not my right to gainsay this. Since I must
feed my snakes mice, it is up to me to be the one responsible for the entire
life and end of life of the mouse. I could buy feeder mice from the stores but
several things keep me from doing this. The first is that most feeder mice from
pet stores are kept in conditions less than desirable to the animals. They are
often sickly, malnourished, and infested with parasites. To ensure that my
snakes have the very best quality food the only solution is to breed the mice
myself. Secondly, as a person who requires the sacrifice of one animal to feed
my snakes, I feel that no other person should be responsible for the animals ultimate
demise. I must take the responsibility for the animals myself. Finally there is
the demise of the animals. If I purchase an animal that has been pre-killed, I
have left that responsibility to another person and am not taking it upon
myself, secondly I can have no guarantee that the mice have finished their existence
in a humane painless manner. Since I feel it is important to control all of
these factors, I began to breed mice.
Of course mouse lovers out there know the appeal of these
furry creatures. They live in a very fascinating manner, have their little
dramas and likes and dislikes. They are a unique and loveable animal. It wasn’t
long before I began to admire them for the creatures they are and to want to
breed them for their beauty as well as for their use as feeders.
So, I breed mice, I use them as feeders, I try to perfect
them as pet mice and make them desireable so that when I sell some to petstores
they will be chosen as pets or breeders instead of feeders. I enjoy their
company and will hopefully continue to enjoy their company for a long time to
come.