I have a house mouse

[Shaun]

I second Dragon Eggs - just remember - it probably WON"T be glad to be your pet - and will probably BITE!!!!

 

[chicknduck]

Mice are the one animal that I can not get used to they just give my the willies

But I hope you enjoy your little friend. After my dog brought me one and I said drop it and it ran away it was still alive and healthy just freaked out. The thought makes me quiver.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

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Exactly what I was going to say. The mouse isn't a neighbor who just wants to see what you're up to. there Is a food source and he will lead his little buddies back to it. Around winter time we end up having to put poison out( yeah yeah, spare me the lecture on that one) I live next to a swamp, in the boons, next to a field.. and im not the mouse type.i noticed poop on my counter behind my appliances, figured out they were coming up through my oven and out the burner and around the counter looking for food. My kids are slobs so im sure they ende dup with SOME sort of snack. So i took care of it.

The following year i never saw a dang thing. I went to move my big vintage buffet which i hadnt looked in in probably over a yr and i was cleaning it out. I found probably 3 pounds of squirreled away DOG food from my dogs dish. It gave me the heebie jeebies and i once again put more poison down. This week or next i will be putting out prevantative poison!edited to add that the food wa sin the drawer inside and behind the drawer slide!!!

 

[Whispering Winds]

It has to be pooping somewhere . . .and it does sound like a tame mouse, but it can breed with a field mouse and you will be overrun. Can you catch it? They make the sweetest little pets and are very easy to take care of . . .we had four pet ones, thinking they were all boys and within a month we had 17. Be careful!!!!!!

 

[chicknduck]

I have an exterminator friend who told me that mice can not hold their urine like other animals so they pee drips as they walk.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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But Debi, I bet the little drips are tiny and you'll never see them. Have fun with Stuart / Stuartette.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

LMAO I don't do mice at all - I have an issue with rodents not afraid of them but from being bitten and abused so many times by mice and rats I figure the only thing their good for is food for the food chain, my dogs and cats kill the wild ones and I buy store ones (frozen and dead) for my snakes

though I unfortunately am finding out that I am going to have to breed the nasty things probably for my snakes since the place I usually get my snake food from is closing down for awhile again *sigh*

I have traps set up all in my house in secret places and in my sheds because they are horribly sneaky and I get scared the pee out of often by picking something up from the shed and theres a mouse in the bucket, food bin, or bag *sigh* i just throw the suckers out for the dogs to take care of.

 

[silkiechicken]

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But Debi, I bet the little drips are tiny and you'll never see them. Have fun with Stuart / Stuartette.

Trust me, mice do have bladders, and when they pee on you, you know it. They do however drip pee as they go to mark territory and will leave droppings in the same manner. I work with a few hundred white research mice and that mouse room stinks.... if the ventilation system gets backed up, the ENTIRE building stinks!

The damage they can do is often silent... like chew through grounding wires and electrical systems till one day something sparks and catches the house on fire or your fridge stops working.... they like the taste of plastic apparently. Plus, one mouse usually means there are two, and two mice can make lots of babies. Our ICR breeding pairs average about 230 babies per 12 months EACH. And these babies can mate and make more babies at 6 weeks old. In a constant state of pregnancy, the females drop a new litter of 12-18 babies every 18-20 DAYS.

 

[chicknduck]

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But Debi, I bet the little drips are tiny and you'll never see them. Have fun with Stuart / Stuartette.

Trust me, mice do have bladders, and when they pee on you, you know it. They do however drip pee as they go to mark territory and will leave droppings in the same manner. I work with a few hundred white research mice and that mouse room stinks.... if the ventilation system gets backed up, the ENTIRE building stinks!

The damage they can do is often silent... like chew through grounding wires and electrical systems till one day something sparks and catches the house on fire or your fridge stops working.... they like the taste of plastic apparently. Plus, one mouse usually means there are two, and two mice can make lots of babies. Our ICR breeding pairs average about 230 babies per 12 months EACH. And these babies can mate and make more babies at 6 weeks old. In a constant state of pregnancy, the females drop a new litter of 12-18 babies every 18-20 DAYS.

Thats alot of babies.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Trust me, mice do have bladders, and when they pee on you, you know it. They do however drip pee as they go to mark territory and will leave droppings in the same manner. I work with a few hundred white research mice and that mouse room stinks.... if the ventilation system gets backed up, the ENTIRE building stinks!

The damage they can do is often silent... like chew through grounding wires and electrical systems till one day something sparks and catches the house on fire or your fridge stops working.... they like the taste of plastic apparently. Plus, one mouse usually means there are two, and two mice can make lots of babies. Our ICR breeding pairs average about 230 babies per 12 months EACH. And these babies can mate and make more babies at 6 weeks old. In a constant state of pregnancy, the females drop a new litter of 12-18 babies every 18-20 DAYS.

Thats alot of babies.

And its true too. I use "Yesterday's Newspapers" or the generic that PetsMart carries for our three mice cages (aquariums) because it absorbs and no smell at all. I put it in about 2-3" deep and clean them every 3-4 months. Each cage has one mouse, because boys fight to the death and I only have one little girl left.