[wyliegirl]

I have 2 does and 1 buck.I clean the cage regularly.I cant spray in my room as i have birds

I dont want to neuter/spay them

 

[Cait]

It should be only the buck that smells, and being with/near does will increase that. Some people swear by real vanilla or chlorophyll in the water, but tbh there isn't much that is very effective. Male mice smell - it has to be accepted if you're going to keep them. You could always keep the buck in your garage and just the does in your room.

 

[HtrKid]

Hmm... I never thought of putting just my bucks in the garage. Thanks for the idea.

 

[Matt Haslam]

i must be weird, i find the smell very addictive lol!

 

[Cait]

There were some big bags of popcorn at work today as we were launching a TV ad and the first thing I did when I entered our department was frown - when asked why I said that I have just realised that popcorn smells like mice :lol:

 

[Matt Haslam]

salted popcorn definately smells like mice!

 

[moustress]

Yes! I have noted that young bucks smell like freshly popped popcorn. Older bucks don't smell nearly as nice. Does have a mousey odor as well, but I find it can be minimized by not having a lot of plastic junk in the cage. Not that that stops me from giving them lots of toys and stuff; I've gotten used to the smell. There are distinctive smells to different types of populations of meeces; tanks with nursing young have the distinctive baby poop smell, and if you smell that smell without having any babies, it probably means you have a sick mousie.

I have several mesh bags full of zeolite that absorb ammonia and that helps somewhat. It's made for kennels and catteries, and can be recharged every few weeks by leaving it in the sun for a day. Mousie odor does tend to hang on in clothing, hair, and paper items, something I'm embarrassed to say I didn't notice until I took a trip out of town. Everything in my suitcase had a weird odor, and I couldn't figure out what it was. Now I keep items use in the mousery away from things I might use outside the house.

 

[Jack Garcia]

I also like the smell of mice. I long ago resigned myself to being thought of as weird. :lol:

 

[MarlaAlVutha]

One thing you can do to help with the smell if you are determined to keep them in the house is a couple drops of real vanilla or lavender essential oil diffused with water, you can put it in a mist bottle and mist down everything mouse related, not soak, just lightly mist. It helps to "cover" the smell. You will still have the smell in everything that shares the same airspace tho.

 

[moustress]

Tea candles in a well shielded holder work pretty well too. I think it burns off the more volatile elements of the stink. Have to careful with it, though...my mom would have had a hissy fit if I burned candles in my room. I suppose scented votive candles would do as well, although I am too fussy about artificial scents, and too cheap to buy the good ones except for special occasions. (Like when I propitiate my parking goddess.)

 

[WoodWitch]

Fresh Buck wee definitely smells like popcorn! I only said that to someone the other day.
I quite like the smell of Mice, it doesn't offend me at all........and weird is my favourite word

 

[WillowDragon]

I love mousey smell

One one of my boys pees on me though, thats a hard smell to wash off! LOL (Especially Spartacus, he is REALLY SMELLY)

 

[Jemma]

Does bicarbonate of soda do any good? I've head of people having a small dish of it beside cages to absorb unwanted smells but I've never tried it myself so I wouldn't put any money on it helping...

 

[SarahY]

It does a great job of removing the smell of our dogs from the carpets, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

ETA: I too love the smell of mice. What a crazy bunch we all are :lol:

Sarah xxx

 

[WillowDragon]

It does a great job of removing the smell of our dogs from the carpets, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

ETA: I too love the smell of mice. What a crazy bunch we all are :lol:

Sarah xxx

Hey Sarah, you have Sparty's brother... does he REALLY smell too? hehehe Might be a family thing.

W xx

 

[Jack Garcia]

I've found that my show mice smell less than the petstore mice I've met. I'm not sure why this is, but I suspect it's related to the much-lessened male aggression in the show mice which might correlate to a lower testosterone level in the males. It would make sense, I think, since some (not all) show males can live together perfectly fine.

 

[WillowDragon]

I've found that my show mice smell less than the petstore mice I've met. I'm not sure why this is, but I suspect it's related to the much-lessened male aggression in the show mice which might correlate to a lower testosterone level in the males. It would make sense, I think, since some (not all) show males can live together perfectly fine.

My Sparty really REALLY smells...lol Noticably stronger than any other of my males I have, or have had in the past. It can't be diet, because he gets the same food as all my males.

W xx

 

[Jack Garcia]

Hmm...I wonder if mouse pee smell has ever been studied in the lab? I'd like to read a good article about mouse pee.

 

[zany_toon]

I too am weird and love the smell of mice

 

[Elven]

Weird, I also like the mice-smell. Not too much though. That cleaned-yesterday smell is the best, but not the cleaned-week-ago... But rats, they smell horrible. No matter how often I clean their cages, it is allways bad.