Rats for food

Some people ask us where we get our rats and mice to feed our animals. 

Jeremy Hooper,
wildlife assistant and naturalist

I usually travel to a lab 2 times per year and pick up a load of frozen rats and mice, but we have another bi-annual source. 

Taylor Berry,
naturalist and wildlife assistant  

Covenant College uses rats in their Psych department. At the end of each semester, we get the rats that don’t go home with students as pets. Don’t think of this as cruel and unfeeling, the cycle of life must go on and these rats are serving a purpose for the Covenant College students as well as a meal for our animal ambassadors. 

Every animal on our beautiful earth serves a purpose and we are thankful to have these rats as food. These pics show Jeremy and Taylor collecting rats before we dispatch them and freeze them.