[krakenten]

I have two female pet mice.

Today I found a huge pile of baby mouses in the cage.

How the Devil did this happen?

(of course, one was preggers when I bought her from the pet store, even though I carefully looked them over, and they were segregated by sex in the shop)

Want a pet mousie?

[Katie1]

You got [how many] for the price of 1...good deal. Maybe you could sell the babies back to the pet shop!!

[krakenten]

Not for snake food, no!

They're my grandchildren......

[Katie1]

No silly for pets!!

[krakenten]

The adult mice are so sweet, they're both nursing the litter.

I guess the presence of the pups triggered the milk production in both-I never knew they could do that,

Still not sure which mousie did it-I suspect the white one, but when the fur sprouts, I'll know.

One is a runt, so very small, but full of life.

I want to start hand taming them after they open their eyes, so they'll be sold as pets, not feeders.

Wish I could keep them all, but that gets out of hand.

Uh, anybody want a mousie?

[Katie1]

Maybe both did give birth...No mouse for me! But where is your location so people near you can help locate homes. How many are there??

[krakenten]

I had the piebald too long for her to have been the momma meese-had to be the little white feeder I bought to keep her company.

People will adopt them, I'm sure, my neighbors all have kids.

Mice are very maternal-seems the presence of pups does make them lactate, I checked with the guy at the pet store.

They're so happy!

[eevee]

I would highly suggest NOT selling them back to the pet store. for one reason, they're unlikely to buy them from you anyways, but for another major reason is that they may very well sell them as snake food, even if they say they won't. plus, you'd have no clue how well they're being taken care of.

I suggest you do a search for pet mice forums. I've posted on a few pet rat forums that had sub-forums for adoption threads that the mice forums may have. also try CL, though it may be hard sorting through all the snake owners who want cheap food from those who want a pet. maybe offer to only rehome to current mice owners and ask to drop them off yourself.

[krakenten]

I'll have to do something with the males, quick!

I'm going to keep a few of the females-seems I got a bonus of nine mousies, I'll keep two, that means seven of them have to find homes.

Theres one runt, who may die, I never saw such a tiny pup, half the size of a normal mouse pup.

So maybe only six.

The pet store here feeds frozen mice to their snakes-they said they'd take them and sell them as pets, but there's too many snake loving hillbillies around here.

I knew it was a bad idea-I was seduced by a fancy Crittertrail at a yard sale.

[krakenten]

The piebald escaped last night-don't ask me how, Crittertrails are supposed to be escape proof.

After trying to recapture her for several hours, I had to give up and go to bed.

This morning, I checked on the other mice, and there she was, back in the cage!

I doubt she'll try that again, the dog was hot on her trail.

Smart mousie!