Have you ever had a mouse

I did, when I was around 10 years old my sister hid a snake in her room and mice in the basement to feed it. Of course my mum noticed it the first day, and as you can guess was extremely happy.

We didn't keep the snake, but one of the mice stayed, don;t ask me why I don't remember.

It's funny because I wasn't too scared, I used to play with it but now I am scared of mice. I don't know why, Mincus (my mouse ) was nice and cute, a little bit smelly nut nice.

HAve you ever owned a mouse or a uncommon animal?

I have only had mice in the freezer waiting to be thawed for the snakes...you can imagine how the other half felt about THAT lol

The most unusual pet I think I have ever had is the hedgehog I currently have and when I was a kid I had an ant farm...does that count as a pet?? I love the hedgie though...only thing is when I tick him off his little quills can hurt!

Yeah, I have owned a mouse before. I actually used to breed them. When the mice had little babies I could resist how cute they were! However, when they got older, I didn't like them as much. As they got older, they used to bite me when I would try to take them out of the cage. The dad actually ate all of the baby mice. I was sad, but didn't really know that it was going to happen. I was only 13 or 14 or so.

I've had mice to feed a snake that I had owned for about 10 years. They over populate very quickly, my snake couldn't eat all of the mice that kept coming so we had to have separate cages for males and females and pregnant mice. Every once in a while we would find one that was particularly kind/cute/intelligent that we could keep as a closer pet. But one day I accidentally fed my sisters pet mouse to the snake...

I have had a mouse before. Actually I started with just two. Then along came the babies. Soon there was a population exlosion. Then the mice gnawed through the wall of their cage and they made a great escape. I haven't seen any of them since.

I used to have a lot of mice. They were cute, and they bred all the time but my mother got rid of them after they started eating their babies (Nobody saw it coming but it turns out that mice will actually eat their babies for a variety of reasons, such as if the wind blows right). I only keep rats as my rodent pets now. They're less aggressive and they don't smell. A far superior animal, in my opinion.

(07-31-2012 03:42 AM)lhins Wrote:  But one day I accidentally fed my sisters pet mouse to the snake...

Oh no!! How did you manage that?


We've been keeping mice for a few years now. We've probably had about 15 altogether. We don't breed them though, we've only ever had females. The males tend to be much smellier than females by the way, so there's a tip! They mark their environment with smelly, sticky urine so unless you want to breed them, I would personally only purchase ladies.

It took me a while to warm to mice, as it was my partner who wanted them really. But these days I'm pretty fond of them all and I talk to them quite a lot actually! Yeah, I know!

We've got five at the moment I think, they're all very different in character but generally they all get on quite well. We've found that the younger they are, the more they fight, but by the time they've matured a bit they tend to have worked out their differences! I think I'd miss them if we didn't have any mice, they're a part of our family now.