Found a newborn mouse in the coop!!!

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

Yes, I've had some fancy and dumbo rats too. They actually made some great pets. They have a lot of personality! Wow, the fox and deer twins must have been quite the experience! We once saved a injured chipmunk and were able to release it back into the wild. But it still comes by to say hello!

The deer went to a sanctuary for tame deer, and the fox ended up being an animal embassador that was a mascot at the Shasta nature center and went to schools to help educate the kids.

 

[Kessel23]

That's cool, the mouse was probably to far away from her nest when she started to give birth. I am surprised that she did not just pick it up and bring it with her. I have had that happen to rabbits, I don't keep them in tiny birth cages to raise their kids, I just have them in a big sectioned off part of my chicken coop. Every once and a while I come out there and find a newborn rabbit laying on the ground, I usually just add it to another rabbits litter around the same age. I have orphaned baby birds, rabbits, and injured animals.

The coolest animal I orphaned was a red tailed hawk, it was knocked out of the nest by a massive storm when it was a baby. The nearest wildlife center was over an hour away and my parents did not want to drive me that far just to save a hawk. I kept him in a dog crate in the house for a while and fed him mice, chipmunks, and ground beef. Then, I moved him out to my chicken coop, we had no chickens at the time, and I still fed him mostly ground beef and any small animals I could catch. After that he went into the barn loft and I fed him less, he would hunt rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels. He stayed there for several weeks but the barn swallows annoyed him a lot. Eventually he left the barn and would hang around the coop and barnyard, hunting rabbits and other small animals, the barn swallows would still pester him and he started going further and further. He would disappear for a few days and then come back and hang around the coop. Once winter came he would hang around more because the barn swallows were gone, eventually I lost track of him, there is still a lot of hawks around, maybe he is one of them but they all look the same to me.

 

[Kessel23]

Last year I found a injured sharp shinned hawk, it's wing was bleeding and it could not move it at all. I brought that one to the shelter because I am a lot older now and can get around and do stuff without my parents. Also, Sharp Shinned hawks are bird eating hawks and this one was an adult, I have no way of getting small birds to feed it. The wildlife center said it was shot with a pellet gun and they asked me where I found it, I told them the location and the said there would be an investigation and that who ever was responsible would be getting a $15,000 fine, I am not sure what became of the hawk or if they found out who shot it.

 

[RodNTN]

Wonderful! It's so cute I've rescued mice, deer, and lots of wild birds

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

The deer went to a sanctuary for tame deer, and the fox ended up being an animal embassador that was a mascot at the Shasta nature center and went to schools to help educate the kids.

That's what happened to the crow, it was so tame fro me that they used it as an ambassador to teach people!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Last year I found a injured sharp shinned hawk, it's wing was bleeding and it could not move it at all. I brought that one to the shelter because I am a lot older now and can get around and do stuff without my parents. Also, Sharp Shinned hawks are bird eating hawks and this one was an adult, I have no way of getting small birds to feed it. The wildlife center said it was shot with a pellet gun and they asked me where I found it, I told them the location and the said there would be an investigation and that who ever was responsible would be getting a $15,000 fine, I am not sure what became of the hawk or if they found out who shot it.

I hope that they found who shot at it! Similar thing with chipmunk we rescued.... It would hang around with us a lot and then we lost track of it. But now we have TONS of chipmunks that are always by us. Maybe he told his friends

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

I would so do the same thing. I have multiple containers for different injured or lost baby species, whether it be birds, frogs or toads. A mouse would surely find itself included on my list.

Rats and mice actually make good pets. I would get them over hamsters or gerbils.

Hope the little guy or girl makes it

Same, I keep a bin with first aid stuff, rodent feed, enclosures, bedding, puppy formula, bird formula, ect! I have always loved rats they are so smart and clean. All of ours were always litter box trained on their own.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Wow!...i wish i found animals to raise..... all i can find are grasshopers and dead shrews...... the coolest thing i ever saved were 2 stray dogs, they were sisters. i found them in my hay shelter when i went out to feed in the morning. i caught them with some baling twine and put them in the garden fence. turns out they during the new year they freaked out and ran 50 miles all the way to me. my mom asked on facebook if anyone had lost their dogs and the owners friend recognized them! they came and picked them up and thanked me, and gave me a bag of home-made fruit roll ups. they asked us if they wanted them because they realized that with them both working they really were not giving the (5 month old) puppies enough attention, and anyone who would save them was a good family. I REALLY WANTED THEM! but my mom said no. They were so cool! little did my mom know they were AKC registered Kerillian bear dogs that were bought for 1,500$ each but i really had fun with that!

 

[llombardo]

Wow!...i wish i found animals to raise..... all i can find are grasshopers and dead shrews...... the coolest thing i ever saved were 2 stray dogs, they were sisters. i found them in my hay shelter when i went out to feed in the morning. i caught them with some baling twine and put them in the garden fence. turns out they during the new year they freaked out and ran 50 miles all the way to me. my mom asked on facebook if anyone had lost their dogs and the owners friend recognized them! they came and picked them up and thanked me, and gave me a bag of home-made fruit roll ups. they asked us if they wanted them because they realized that with them both working they really were not giving the (5 month old) puppies enough attention, and anyone who would save them was a good family. I REALLY WANTED THEM! but my mom said no. They were so cool! little did my mom know they were AKC registered Kerillian bear dogs that were bought for 1,500$ each but i really had fun with that!

Bear dogs are awesome dogs. Fell in love with the one I met.

I found this guy on the side of the road dumped. He was about 10 weeks old

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Awe, how cute.... All of our dogs are rescued. Our one min pin chihuahua mix was going to be put down because he had heart worm. But heart worm is treatable, and he was only 2 years old and such a sweetheart. So we adopted him and got him heart worm treatment. He is now 100% heart worm free!!! It's such a shame that they were going to euthanize such a young and friendly dog. But I guess that heart worm is common in the South and instead of treating them they tend to just euthanize them instead.