[moustress]

Welcome! I love meeces on general principle. I used to spend hours on the floor of my uncle's feed house watching the little livestock forage for food. I caught a few with the old box, stick and string setup, putting them in five gallon jars, watching them for a little while, and then releasing them. It's great to have another mousie lover in this Forum. I'm totally addicted too, and have worked hard for ten years to develop a couple of types of mousies, most significantly trying for healthy satins of the American type, then for champagne and fawn and red satins.

I'd love to see pix of your little darlings.

 

[moustress]

I was really hooked when my half-sister stayed with us for a couple of weeks back when I was 4 or 5. She had some wild type meeces in a 10 galllon tank that was filled almost completely with straw. The meeces tunneled and made nest chambers and it was utterly fascinating. My mother was totally freaking out about having rodents in her home; she didn't even like having a cat or a dog inside the house. I wanted to have a pet mouse ever since. My mother and my father struggled over issues of this sort regularly as he was a docent for animals needing rehabilitation through the closest wildlife management area. I had an interesting, if not tranquil, upbringing in the country.