Fancy Mice

[ShrekDawg]

That would be awesome.I really miss my little angora girls and my little rex lady. 

As for mice and rats having similar gene's dumbo is just for rats but on the flip side mice have more color and coat patterns and fur types. It's also helps mice have been domesticated FAR longer than rats. Rats have only been domesticated since the 1800's by the rat catcher Jack Black who would keep black, white, and cream rats and breed them to get those colors more commonly and often sold them to the upper class as pets. Mice have been domesticated in China since 307-1641. Also little known fun fact there is a temple in India called the Karni Mata temple where the rats there are revered as the children of a goddess named Karni Mata. They are fed by the hundreds of people who come to visit the temple daily and by the caretakers of the temple who cook the food only for the rats. If you see one of the few rare white rats there then it is considered a blessing from Karni Mata herself. 

Wow I had no idea they had been domesticated so long or that mice had so many colors, patterns, and coat types! And wow that's a cool story about the temple!