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feeders at petsmart
- Thread starter Lennycorn
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Gintha
*stretches* I'm out!
Prices are nice and low in the US... cheapest I can get them is $0.93 per adult.. but shipping is $150! If I buy 25 mice or 2500 mice... $150 s&h. Bloody AirCanada. I guess WestJet is supposed to be moving into the airport near the supplier I know by next summer... so... shipping will be around $45 then.
From Big Cheese I buy 50 fuzzies and 50 small adults and it cost me $55 total with freight. I don't even buy dog food from Petsmart everything they have is way too high priced. I only have 3 snakes but I put the mice in my freezer in double guard freezer bags and they last a few months.
Taceas
USW = UB313
Four ex's? And to think I've never had even one. Must have lucked out of that deal. Phew.
Can't you plan a "vacation" to Maine and have the packages shipped to be held at a local Fedex business? It doesn't look but maybe a 3-hour drive to the border with Maine and New Brunswick.
I know Caroline (breedingcolors) did something similar when I, among others, sent her a huge shipment of snakes last year or earlier in the year this year. She took a couple of days and trekked across the border to pick up her snakes, and hand-carried them back across the border as it was easier for her.
I know for a fact that Big Cheese always sends me enough dry ice with each shipment that I still have dry ice to play with a couple of weeks after the package has already gotten here. Dry ice is pretty cheap considering, so I don't know why the Canadian rodent companies don't put enough in so that your mice wouldn't have been thawed upon arrival.
Then again I don't know why the American rodent companies don't ship to Canada. I've sent many a gift package to Ontario and it got there in a timely fashion for just a hair more than it would be to send it to family a few states away. Must be the whole customs/dry ice thing.
If my mom can send a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to Germany via UPS, then I'd think just about anything is possible. She was the head of shipping for Siemens here in Indiana for years.
Can't you plan a "vacation" to Maine and have the packages shipped to be held at a local Fedex business? It doesn't look but maybe a 3-hour drive to the border with Maine and New Brunswick.
I know Caroline (breedingcolors) did something similar when I, among others, sent her a huge shipment of snakes last year or earlier in the year this year. She took a couple of days and trekked across the border to pick up her snakes, and hand-carried them back across the border as it was easier for her.
I know for a fact that Big Cheese always sends me enough dry ice with each shipment that I still have dry ice to play with a couple of weeks after the package has already gotten here. Dry ice is pretty cheap considering, so I don't know why the Canadian rodent companies don't put enough in so that your mice wouldn't have been thawed upon arrival.
Then again I don't know why the American rodent companies don't ship to Canada. I've sent many a gift package to Ontario and it got there in a timely fashion for just a hair more than it would be to send it to family a few states away. Must be the whole customs/dry ice thing.
If my mom can send a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to Germany via UPS, then I'd think just about anything is possible. She was the head of shipping for Siemens here in Indiana for years.
TripleMoonsExotic
I <3 Stripes!
Gintha, if you can get a couple Canadians to split shipping with you on one extremely large order (you get some decent discounts with larger shipments per mouse), I'm sure that would work nicely. As for getting the mice to last longer, a Food Saver will increase the length of time mice will stay good in a freezer by years. Their are a couple different brands of this product, I'm sure if you looked around in your local Walmart type store you can find one. 
http://foodsaver.jardendirect.com/promo/601/index.ad2?ProductID=2596&CatalogID=0
http://foodsaver.jardendirect.com/promo/601/index.ad2?ProductID=2596&CatalogID=0
Gintha
*stretches* I'm out!
They last 6 months in the freezer hehe.
3 of the big US companies say that the can't ship to Canada because they can't get the mice across the border. I phoned both major airlines, and its true, they will not ship frozen mice over the border. Not to my airport anyhow. ~,~
I was gunna order a huge amount to split with people, but the closest Canadian snake owner I know is 15 hour drive away ~,~
The NB / US border is a 6 hour drive from here, and I have been told that they will not let us take the frozen mice across the border. So, on top of the fact that I'm not able to drive, there may be border complications *sigh* its really rather annoying!
I'm going to Montreal soon, as my Grandma is really sick, I'll be getting Mouseman to send me a nice BIG box of mice (they don't use dry ice, just gel packs =/) I'll pick em up in Montreal, and transfer them to a styrofoam cooler with dry ice in it. That should last the 20 hours in the trunk of the car, I hope. ~,~ Assuming Pfizer will sell me the ice LOL... not sure where to get it, other than the drug companies ~,~ If I can't get it, I'll be using bags of ice, and putting fresh ones in ever 4 hours.
If I vacuum pack the mice, will they last longer than 6 months in a deep freeze?
3 of the big US companies say that the can't ship to Canada because they can't get the mice across the border. I phoned both major airlines, and its true, they will not ship frozen mice over the border. Not to my airport anyhow. ~,~
I was gunna order a huge amount to split with people, but the closest Canadian snake owner I know is 15 hour drive away ~,~
The NB / US border is a 6 hour drive from here, and I have been told that they will not let us take the frozen mice across the border. So, on top of the fact that I'm not able to drive, there may be border complications *sigh* its really rather annoying!
I'm going to Montreal soon, as my Grandma is really sick, I'll be getting Mouseman to send me a nice BIG box of mice (they don't use dry ice, just gel packs =/) I'll pick em up in Montreal, and transfer them to a styrofoam cooler with dry ice in it. That should last the 20 hours in the trunk of the car, I hope. ~,~ Assuming Pfizer will sell me the ice LOL... not sure where to get it, other than the drug companies ~,~ If I can't get it, I'll be using bags of ice, and putting fresh ones in ever 4 hours.
If I vacuum pack the mice, will they last longer than 6 months in a deep freeze?
Taceas
USW = UB313
I've seen dry ice available at a variety of places.
Out west, Walmart carries it. Around here, I've yet to see it. I guess its not a 3hr trip back home for most people from Walmart, like maybe in BFE Colorado.
But we do have a local dry ice manufacturer that sells it. Just have to look in the yellow pages usually.
Out west, Walmart carries it. Around here, I've yet to see it. I guess its not a 3hr trip back home for most people from Walmart, like maybe in BFE Colorado.
But we do have a local dry ice manufacturer that sells it. Just have to look in the yellow pages usually.