d. frost wrote:MoonfallTheFox wrote:d. frost wrote:hey guys
sooo ive posted about this ages ago about seeing mice and.. they reproduced.
have you guys ever had any experience with keeping house mice as pets?
these are only babies not adults so are they more tameable?
They will always be very wild. Even though they're so closely related to our domestics they can interbreed, genetically, they are predisposed to a very wild temperament and will never be able to be tame. If you were to try and keep one you would only be able to look at it.
The better choice is to use a humane live trap to relocate them. Take them at least 2 miles from your home somewhere there is food and water like a creekbed, and let them go. They are very good at coming back if you do not take them far enough so the farther the better.
I once rescued a litter of them at only a day old (they were found in a structure and going to be killed, so I took em. Soft heart.) and I used a domestic female mouse who was lactating at the time to foster raise the pups. Most of them lived. I treated them all for parasites (they were totally infested). They were WILD to their very cores. It didn't matter that they were even raised in a human home. They were wild animals and they didn't belong in a cage.
I let them go. I did a soft release on my own property and provided nest material, bedding, and food for the first month of life for them. Gradually decreasing feeding frequency so they learned to forage all on their own. They did great. They wouldn't have needed as much support if they were raised by a wild mouse momma but my doe didn't have the wild skills to teach them so they had a learning curve out there. I also didn't raise them on pellet food alone I provided a lot of "wild" foods for them so they knew what was edible and what wasn't.
What container would you keep them in.
I don't have a cage.
And I'd be scared it they got out through gaps. (I know they can squeeze through tiny spaces)
I have a tank.. But a fish is inhabiting it.
I don't have a wheel.. But I have food and toilet rolls.
Does toilet paper work as a layer for the ground?