You can not tarnish all mice/rat/small breeders with the same brush.

My friend breeds mice for her own enjoyment and she does cull on occasion due to the high amount born in litters. I think she has culled 4 out of a litter of 18! and the mother killed 4 more.

Mother nature also cull and you say nothing about that. I used to have a small collection of mice a few years ago and my first girl gave birth to 14, when they were ready to leave only 8 was alive. I remember finding one and it was dragged from the nest and half eaten, I could not see anything wrong with it but obs to the mother something was a miss.

I have Guinea Pigs and I know of some evil breeder that will kill any male(boar) that is born because he doesn't want people getting their hands on his show 'stock', I also know this man doesn't have a pig in his shed over 2yrs old.

It happened within any breeding process, dogs, cats, rabbits, small rodents, farm, wild animals. Sometimes its unnecessary due to the animal being the wrong sex or markings but if an animal is born with an illness is it right to keep it alive? We have the option to terminate children with Downs etc, so what is the difference?

Emma x

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