Coop pest to House pet?

To keep or to kick out?

  • Keep

    Votes: 5 100.0%
  • Kick out

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    5

5hens&aroo

Songster
5 Years
Apr 20, 2018
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Kentucky
Well cleaned out the mini coop I keep chicks in and found a nest of baby mice with their eyes still closed and barely any fur and their mom (alive). Momma mouse ran off and I moved the nest to a little container with a whole in and and set it aside to see if momma mouse would come back. Sure enough she did and took all her baby mice BUT one!!! So I left it there and waited a few more hours and checked... she never came back for him. Me being me I couldn’t leave it to die so I brought it in put it in a box with a heat lamp and started feeding it almond milk every 2 hrs. I thought “by morning it will be dead but at least it died warm.” ... wrong. It’s been a week since I found this little guy! His eyes are still closed, he has fur and is now drinking kitten formula and a little unflavored pedialite every 2 1/2 hours. Should I keep him once he is grown or should I let him go? I don’t call him a name but my little sisters call him Despereaux(des-per-o)... like the movie.
 

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I've had pet mice and rats. I would recommend them over hamsters and gerbils. I would keep him.

I would have done the same thing. I am now sitting with 5 toads in the house because I don't want to mow them or have them eaten by my garter snake buddy lurking in the yard.
 

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