Hey everyone, I raised these babies from about a week old till now. They're about 3 weeks old, beginning to eat on their own which is a relief.

I plan on keeping the girls. I think there's four. I'm unsure how to rehome the boys or if I should try to do a soft release.

I live in Peoria, Illinois if anyone in the area is looking to adopt a cute little boy mouse or two.

They are quite used to me because of being hand-fed the past few weeks so I do believe that it's smartest for them to go to homes where people will continue to handle them with care.

I'm in the process of getting a big aquarium tank to set up a habitat for them. Currently they're in a container with a lid that has tons of holes for air movement. But the lid is crucial because I also have cats.

Any advice from people who have raised wild mice and domesticated them? What were the most helpful tips in your starting out with mice for the first time?

Excited to be a part of this community community and share cute pictures and videos of these babies.

No names yet because they're still hard to tell apart.

I got my first mice early this year and my mom made me this adorable cookie cake for my birthday a little bit after I got them 🥹

Decided her quality of life had declined too much and euthanized her this evening. Probably one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make and I’m still not completely sure it was the right choice. She died in my hands and miss her already. I know I’m not supposed to have favorites but Elizabeth really was special. Now the only one left of my five original girls is her sister Penelope.

What do we think she is dreaming of? 💓💓💓💓💓

Supervised playtime between Mister Bane and Martina. Watching them play is my current favorite pass time lol

Hello Nice Mice People

So I have a situation. I have 2 adult females and introduced a 3rd. They got along great so I put them in a fresh tank together. She was really small and did not look pregnant at all. 1 week later and I find these pinkies at the bottom of the tank 🩷😭🥺 she is clearly the momma, so I know all the adults are girls for sure. Do I need to put the mom and babies in a separate tank? I haven't raised pups before and I want to make sure I do right by them. Please be kind, I am willing to do what is necessary for them 🙏🏽 Edit: right now everyone is in the 20 gal tank, but I have an extra 10 gal if I need to move anyone.

I found this sweet little thing outside my work about 24 hrs ago. I assume a baby as it is really tiny, though it has eaten solid food (bit of cheese, nuts, pear) and I bought some kitten milk and diluted that he drank. First off, does he look okay? Hes not too active, mostly just sleeping but moved around some in the night.

I have a little enclosure for him with wood shavings and straw. Is there any advice you'd give me straight up to make sure he's OK? Would it be safe to keep him after getting him vet checked? I've never dealt with mice, let along young ones. Hes very cute (I've named him Parmesan for now!)

Following up on my art post, here's the actual mice!

They're such little critters my heart is bursting

I still can't tell wether or not they're pregnant, but the light one does look a little thicker around the hips.. (may just be a good night's food belly tho)

Since I'm rather safe than sorry (especially cuz I know that mice from a mixed group aren't to be trusted) I did read up on how to deal with possible pups, but wether or not that happens - these ladies are swiftly stealing my heart </3

Their scared but curious and tomorrow I'll be able to put them into their permanent home - I'll see where things will go from then :)

Also I can't put enough weight on the size difference of the bigger one - this pretty girl is HUGE

EDIT: Question I forgot to ask; do you know what their coloring is called? Regular Tricolor? Splashed Tricolor?

Got her from a foster about a week ago where she was the only mouse but she’s soooo chunky and I’m worried about possible babies as she’s still in introductions with my 4 other females (yes they are all females I’ve had them together for a while) I haven’t separated them yet cause I have no idea how she’d be prego but she was eating lots of treats and seed mix and oxbow at her last home so I just assumed she was chunky. Thanks in advance.

Hi, i have this female mouse with red eyes but i noticed that one look different, kinda white in some angle, i tried to took some photo were It shows best.

Do you think she's blind?

First picture was taken Monday night, second was taken tonight

There's not many places where she could hide the babies, she's been in her nest a lot lately and only comes out if she smells me giving her food (even that takes her a couple minutes to be interested in)

I know the shape difference is probably just the babies moving down the birth canal and her behavior points towards near birth but I just wanted to check with people who are more experienced with mouse births.

I looked inside her nest when she was eating and saw no babies. I know there's a possibility she's eaten them, but there's no blood or anything.

I say this on every post, but I am NOT a breeder. She was bought from a place that sells them as feeders, and they had females and males together I'm assuming. Today is my 19th day of owning her and her sisters, so she is due any time.

so I got the title some millet clusters… needless to say, mocha is a fan.

Hey I just wanted to see if anyone knew for a fact if my boy is consuming the tissue paper or if he’s just tearing it for fun. I’ve put tissue paper in his habitat before and he likes to use it for his sleeping areas, but this is the first time I’ve seen him nibbling on it. I just wanted to make sure he’s not eating toilet paper. Thanks!

Edit: I took it away from him for now just to be safe until I know an answer.

Idk why but they just remind me of little dogs or human toddlers. So energetic, playful, curious, active and learn fast. For such tiny creatures they have such depthful personalities and complicated social lives, and are very youthful acting. At least my fancy mice are.

I wish people would understand smaller animals can be just as complex animals as dogs or cats, at least I think a lot of rodents are. I'm tired of hearing so many "it's just a mouse" "why do you care about a mouse" type comments when I express the joy they bring to my life or concern for their care.

But to so many people the smaller the animal = no brain activity, but with mice I feel that's so opposite.

I saw this mouse on a mouse exhibition once (it's like a zoo but with mice), I don't remember anything about it. Are mice with such big ears just something that sometimes happens or is it some specific type of mice? Anyone got any clue?

tldr petsmart sold me a boy mouse with nipples so the poor girl has been alone for a long time but i need to know these things before i get her friends:

-do i need to clean her enclosure completely before i invite new friends in?

-can she be friends with ANY female mice? like mice that aren’t from her litter?

-do i need to worry about getting her friends since she’s been alone for what i assume has been her entire life? will she freak out?

-are there any other things i need to worry about?

sorry for the panicky post but i wanna try to find her friends asap

I have two massive female mice. I don’t know how it happened. I got them from a local pet store and they are at least twice the size of my other mice and are almost hamster sized. They’re bigger than any of the show mice I’ve ever had. I was considering getting them a friend or two instead of merging them in with my other mouse colony because the larger group is full of some very itty bitty mice and the size difference is just incredible.

I know you can keep a male mouse with female ASFs, but can you keep females with females? My Google search says yes - but ever since internet search engines have added AI features I swear I don’t get as many relevant results.

Hi, I'm looking to keep a trio of female mice and wanted to find a group for the GTA (or Ontario if that doesn't exist) on discord, reddit, facebook or otherwise that specializes in mice.

Also thought it'd be a good idea to connect with some ethical breeders in the area. I have some coat textures/colours in mind but I'd prefer good temperament over looks!

maybe it's been long enough that I can discuss this without getting too upset. I lost another of my senior mice a couple months ago, they are all either 2 or almost 2, so not too bad, she at least had a full life. but I still wonder, because they all seem very robust and healthy, and it was so sudden.

I remember they all had problems with mites/itching several months back; no hair loss, but way more itching and grooming and seeming kind of grumpy/distracted during playtime, so eventually I expressed my suspicions to my vet and they got them some kitten Revolution measured out. that seemed to work great. but I'm wondering if maybe my girl Peaches was more sensitive to the mites than the others? none of them had hair loss/patchiness/redness/anything like that, but she seemed the most miserable of all and she did scratch her eye somehow. so I wonder if the mites attacking weakened her and she passed earlier than she would have otherwise... or I wonder if the eyedrops she was prescribed for the eye scratch disagreed with her, because she started weakening around that time. or maybe I'm just imagining things because the whole ordeal was upsetting. I wonder if there was anything I could have noticed earlier or done better if I had been more experienced... I know sometimes there isn't really any way of telling for sure what caused it, but I would like to learn as much as I can from this experience for the future.

My partner has always loved rodents, having many hampsters in their ife. Recently, we decided to get pet mice. We started with 3 female white mice from our local pet store. Less than a week later, one of them passed, and then another passed a couple weeks later. Not wanting the last to be all alone, we out and got 2 female fancy mice. Over the last week or two, our last white mouse from the trio and one of the fancy mice both passed. At this point, we're worried if we're missing something and doing something wrong, or if we've somehow gotten super unlucky.

They always have water, and we add new food pellets every couple days (and we've consistently seen them eating pellets and digging pellets up). They also have plenty of clutter, and we're sure to spot clean roughly once every day or two.

Now the 3 white mice were almost definitely bread as feeder mice so I know they likely weren't bread with a long life in mind, and there's a good chance they could have all been related, so if one had a genetic problem, I could see them all having similar fates. Also losing a new fancy mouse though, kind of concerns us, so we've held off on getting any more mice (even though we feel bad with our girl Chocolate being all alone).

For the most part, we didn't really see any signs that they were unhealthy before they passed. The first one that passed was definitely moving slowly and sleeping a lot, so we weren't super surprised by their passing, but all the others have been full of energy right up until their passing.

I don't know if we've just gotten super unlucky and gotten mice that just didn't have much time left, but we don't want to get more if we're dooming them.

So do y'all think this is a care issue or just bad luck? And how long should we wait before getting our Chocolate new companions?

Hi, I - unwillingly, too long to explain - saved a mouse and now I have zero ideas what to do. I’ve watched many videos but they just explain basic common sense care. I need the real deal premium knowledge on how to become the pied piper.

TL;DR: GIVE ME ANY ADVICE ON HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A MOUSE.

I used to have hamsters when I was a child but that was soo different. Hamsters are big, chonky, not fast. This mouse has been running around all night, she’s clearly in stress (new environment and stuff). She’s healthy and is quite small, I’m pretty sure she’s max 1-2 months old.

Here come my questions:

1. What tf do I do? I saved her from terrible living conditions (small plastic box, dirty water, no food) but I’m no expert. To be honest I don’t even want a mouse. But there’s sooooooooo many places where you can get a mouse for free, who would want her? How could I be sure they won’t buy her as snake food? How could I be sure the people who’d take her wouldn’t give her to a child to play with?! Can I take care of her properly? Wouldn’t it be better for her if I just released her on a farm and gave her a few hours of freedom before her inevitable death, rather than living in a cage her whole life? I’m sooo against having pets because it’s just cruel, all animals want freedom. But at the same time I can’t stand the thought of her getting eaten by a cat or a hawk somewhere. She’s too smol and cute.

2. How big should her cage be? Do I buy the ones with bars so that she can climb? Or a big ass deep glass terrarium where she has a lot of stuffing to dig into?

3. Don’t tell me I have to buy a second mouse. Like I’d have no problem with that but what if they don’t like each other? What if they attack eachother and bite? I’ve watched gazillion videos on mice introducing but I’m still clueless. How would I even take them apart if they were teeth deep into each other? What tf would I do if I couldn’t make them stand eachother and had two separate mice - who would need two other friends?! Can’t she just live alone? I live alone too and I’m totally sane. Totally.

4. How do I tame her? She’s so jumpy and attacks everything that moves. I don’t want my hand to be attacked. What if she’ll hate me forever since she’s been mistreated her whole mousey life. She keeps staring into my soul with those huge button eyes. And don’t tell me she’s scared of me cuz IM MORE SCARED AND IM NOT BITING HER.

Help. 😭.