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Care of Mice and Rats
Pet mice and rats are small rodents that take up little space and are fun to watch. Raising and training them is entertaining and educational. For types that make great pets, their habits and needs, and more, ask and answer questions here.
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How do you know that a mouse is hibernating?
The ones that hibernate around here seem to sleep a lot.
Can common house mice bite through metal?
tin foil....sure but regular metal??? i don't think so not in Michigan anyhow. if you have something that's bitting through metal you might want to call pest control to look into the matter for you
* Mice have been known to chew through a metal pipe to get to water, it takes a lot of time, but it is possible.
Yes, most mice have fur. Mice start to grow fur at a few weeks old. There are such things as hairless mice though. I had a hairless rat and she was the sweetest. So don't let hairless fool you they are cute and sweet.
What gender of rat is best to keep together as a group?
Either gender if raised from a very young age, like siblings. Girls tend to get along better with new rats though.
Perhaps you mean colicky? Colic is uncontrollable crying in a baby that goes on for a long time. See the link below for more information.
If you are 17 are you too young to breed mice?
No, just do your responsiblity as a breeder and always strive for optimizing the species =3 10 - 27 or 85, mice don't usually need any help breeding (they're like wabbits!) LOL 17 isn't too young, but if you decide to breed then be a good provider and keep those cages clean, give good food and water and most importantly of all read up on breeding mice and when separation time from male female comes and also separation from mother and babies.
2 Get some advice from a pet shop. 1 until then just warm up a little milk and feed it very gently with an eye dropper or see if it will drink on its own. for solids a little baby porridge is also good.
How do you care for a 6 week old female white mouse?
Well, you need a cage. You can buy these at almost all pet stores. Make sure you have a food dish, water bottle that attaches to the side of the cage and a running wheel for exercise. Put your mouse in this cage and give her some time to settle in. Remember that mice are social creatures and get lonely on their own, so a little companion for your mouse may be a good option. You don't need to get anything else expensive, mice are cheap, so when you have the cage, if it's dig enough, adding another mouse doesn't add much cost. Make sure you let your mouse get used to you, stay near the cage and speak to it. When it seems unafraid of you, start picking it up and stroking it. Good luck with your new pet :)
Can rats eat strawberries and not get sick?
Strawberries are a good fresh food for rats but only give it to them in moderation.
rats can eat anything that is purely organic, but if it rejects the food just try a different variety, rats, like dogs, are as variable as people
Whether a rat-bite needs rabis course treatment?
No, it doesn't. Unless the rat appeared rabid, which I doubt, you are fine. Rats metabolisms are so quick that if they contract rabies they die almost immediately. Sick rats aren't able to go around biting people.
You can catch wild mice in a number of ways. The best way is to buy a humane mouse trap, which catches mice without hurting or killing them. This means people can get them out of houses without having to deal with dead mice. They are also really good for catching lost pet mice. You can also make a humane mouse trap, with a large plastic bottle (Coke bottles, Soda Water bottles and other such things work fine.) Cut the top off and then turn it back on itself, then put in some food. Mice go in and can't get back out again. You can also buy a plain old mouse trap, but these are very inhumane as they kill they mice, or trap them so they have to endure a slow death. Mouse poison is also quite inhumane, and can also put other animals at risk if they eat the mouse that has consumed the poison.
yes, a baby mouse can have water because when you raise them you give them warm milk and your supposed to mix water with the milk.
I know this works for hamsters, but I'm not sure about rats... anyways, rub your hands around in whatever you put in the bottom of their cage before you do so, so they get used to your scent.
They actually don’t. A small study by David Holmes at Manchester Metropolitan University showed that mice prefer grains and sweet things over cheese. As to how this myth got started, it’s not entirely clear, but it reaches at least as far back as Shakespeare.
One theory is that in the medieval era, there wasn’t much food available for mice to steal from human houses, so little teeth marks in cheese were the most obvious signs of their presence.
And although this misconception well predates modern cartoons, there’s another theory that it was just easier (not to mention cuter) to draw mice with a nice hunk of cheese rather than something like grain, so cartoonists perpetuated the stereotype.
Whatever the reason for this wide-spread myth, the fact is that mice will eat cheese if it’s all that’s around, but they’d really prefer cereal.
