[moustress]

Wow, it really is wierd for the moms to kill their babies when they're already a week old. I've only had that happen once in the ten plus years I've kept mousies. It turned out that they had mites.

 

[moustress]

Oh, geez, that totally sucks!! I have had wild mice break into some of my tanks in the past and impregnate a couple of does. It figures though, that a wild mouse would do that. I took measures so that won't happen unless I just plain make a mistake about how I leave the tank. Wild mice are a real bother, and we live in an old house, so it's impossible to prevent them from getting in. I've had wild mice show up in empty tanks that hadn't been dumped and cleaned; I think they like the water bottle not to mention left-over food.

I'm horrified to hear that one of your bucks was killed by the wild one, and bummed that you lost yet another litter. It's time for you to get that wild little fart dead or alive!

 

[moustress]

Woohoo!! Good work, and let's hope that is the end of it. I know that it was the wild mice that spurred me to install better tops and latches on my tanks and that's an added benefit as I rarely have any escapes anymore. The last one was a rider on the underside of a cage top who jumped off and ran right out to the edge of the shelf where I was working so I saw his mischievious little face peeking out at me. Good old Snoot, a true cuddlebuddy! (He has a white spot on his nose.) He was out for all of about 15 seconds or less.