30/07/2021
Unfortunately we feel the need to share our recent experience to protect our mousery from defamation.
If that person (we will show the decency to not name and shame) has the opportunity to see this, I would strongly suggest that you inform yourself of our deformation laws, as that is exactly what you did in the fancy mouse breeder group.
We have all the evidence to show that everything you said was lies.
So recently we sold 2 girls and one boy mouse to a customer.
We were in communications in the facebook chat.
She did not seem to have much of an understanding in mice as she wanted 2 girls and 2 boys.
Our ad states “pets only”.
She assured us she was not interested in our mice for breeding but she loved mice and wanted 2 girls and her son really wanted 2 boys.
We stated that we only sell our males individually as they become territorial and can fight to the death.
We also shared with her, despite daily hand holding one of the girls (who was the most friendliest most prior) has just bitten twice in the last week. We stated, we would not accept money for her because of this but if she wanted to have her, and her sister, we are sure she will out grow it, but just wished to offer full disclosure.
The mouse did come good the last few days prior to hand over.
We still did not accept money for her, as we honoured our word.
When the lady came, she brought her mouse cage. She loved the two girls and all was fine.
When we showed her the boy, we offered her a container to take him home in.
She said, “no he will be fine in with the girls until I get home. “
I stated that they are old enough to breed and we would get her a container.
She insisted he would be fine as she only lives 5 mins away.
I insisted that they can breed in a few seconds.
She refused another container and placed him in with the girls.
She also was not keen on the food we include in our mice sale, fair enough, personal preference.
Fast forward. I wrote a post in the fancy mice breeders group asking for their thoughts as to how we could navigate this next time, as it caught us off guard and we felt awful afterwards that we were lied to and these mice might be bred at only 5 weeks old.
To my shock, she responded in that fancy mice breeders group accusing us of all sorts of lies.
Why she was in this breeders group, when she insisted she had no intention to breed is beyond me.
She stated that we sold her unweaned babies, that we feed them horrible food, that she had no idea they were only 5 weeks old (which she did know as she asked us what age we sell our mice and we told her 5-6 weeks) (some breeders sell younger), that they were unable to feed properly and that we defamed a pet shop for stating that it is hard to find homes for males now due to said pet shops inhuman back to back mouse breeding. (We are not the only ones who witnessed the pet shops heinous mouse breeding with dead half eaten mouse babies in the overpopulated enclosure).
We have all our communication via messenger screen shot.
She was aware of everything.
The mouse food we feed is discussed as one of the best by breeders in the fancy mouse group.
They were properly weened and were perfectly able to feed themselves.
A 5 week old male should not have been left in the cage at all with 5 week old females.
Unfortunately there are many unethical, know all, dodgy breeders and accidental litters around.
We are very upset and angry that this lady has taken advantage of us like this and then gone on to spew out lies and hate.
We hope that it does not continue on from here.
We are unable to resolve this matter as she has blocked us and insists on her lies, and continued to abuse anyone in the fancy mouse breeders group who tried to better educate her.
Please do your research on the breeders.
Do not buy from those that you do not have a good vibe about, as this lady may very well be out to breed without a clue on ethical breeding.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
