r/PetMice

I’ve had my adorable babygirl Finley since April. I got her this house at that time and it was always intact. I only noticed this morning that there’s basically an entire back door?? I’m so confused. I didn’t even think it was possible for her to bite this. There are no remnants of the house in her bedding, so I am so very confused.. did she actually eat it or chew it? Should I remove this house? Is it unsafe for her? I genuinely don’t know what happened, because this is a HUGE chunk and the house was fine a week ago. Please help..

my mice are about 4 weeks old to my knowledge, i got them when their eyes were closed and have been feeding them milk by syringe for weeks now. the other morning the decided they are scared of me, one of them will no longer drink milk. they are extremely fast and jump out of my hands now. my mom is urging me to release them into the wild but i'm so scared that they won't know how to survive out there. they've been being hand fed for a few weeks now and were rescued from a construction site where the mother and one sibling were killed. will they be able to live a happy life inside? they are showing their wild side now. ( this pic is almost a week old )

I found this little mouse while walking my dog, and I went back later to bring it some water and a bit of cheese (I know they’re not really supposed to have that).
When I watched it for a bit, I noticed it was a little unsteady on its feet, so I grabbed the transport box from my old hamster and gave it some hamster food, a bit of water, and some shredded paper towels.
Tomorrow, I’m planning to release it in a safe environment (there are a lot of cats around here).
How would you go about this, and would you even have helped it at all? 😅

So me and my partner found an almost newborn mouse outside on the 3rd of July.

So, before we did anything drastic, we tried to lure the mom back to the baby with baby mice sounds and food.

She never came.

So now, we waited and gave it pedialite (since we didn’t know how long since it had eaten) and now giving it kitten formula and even help it use the bathroom.

Can anyone tell us how old he is? And any other advice you might have?

Attached is photos and f Jerry (we found out it was a boy and decided why not)

Please ignore my hair dyed hands and their weird popsicle house🥲 but this baby bites me a lot!!! Her sisters don’t at all, not even when startled, so is there a chance there’s something wrong with her, like she’s in pain?

To note she’s not very shy. She has no issues with me grabbing or picking her up and yes she does eat from my hand occasionally, but no more than the others do.

Also I was more quick and almost aggressive here to show the severity. I’m obviously never this jumpy or quick with them usually

I’ve had them over a month now and I finally was able to afford them a bunch of new enrichment!!! Please give me tips as to what to also add!!! (on a budget preferably)

Idk what to tag this but I have no one to talk to about this with because no one loves mice besides me in my area 😢

this is in my wall lol, it could just be dirty as you can see the same coloured spots; but is it not mouse shaped..? 😭 tipped nose, ears, longish thin body? might be going insane lol

not good. everyone - my family, thought it was gone. it was not.
i have a clear fucking video of it because, i didnt even fucking believe it when i saw it..

it climbed up my bed (didnt hear it) except i saw a BLACK FLUFF run past my pillows on my right; and MY mouse JUST ran under my robe on top of me. i panicked immediately since they were both now on the bed; i heard the mouses tail hitting the wall behind my pillow that he ran under, i stand up essentially yelling for my mouse, no movement, no noise.

i lift up my robe and grab my mouse so fucking quick, put him in the cage, hes super confused.
please keep in mind my mouse is a male for future information!

the mouse pops its head out of my pillow against the wall before running behind my actual pillows (next to my cage btw.), after i put my mouse away the mouse was behind my pillow, staring down at my mouse cage. i tried being gentle and tried to coerce it to come to me but it ran back down the corner of my bed. i didnt see it for a minute or two, so i went to see if my mum was up - she wasnt its 1am, came back and the mouse was casually on my floor before running back under my bed.

i call my friend, and i see in the mirror...
the fucking black mouse, ON TOP OF MY MOUSES CAGE. i think this is a good thing because it has no where to go, except it JUMPS onto my bed, hid for a bit, i went back; i hear scruffling of the cage, i look back and the mouse is there again.

except, my mouse is under. fighting back through the cage.

this is when this got serious and i now plan on either killing it, if it comes to that; and ripping my entire room apart in the morning and getting it the fuck out of here.

i dont care about a mouse in my room; until it (im assuming its a male considering the situation) tries to attack my mouse in HIS cage.

these are videos of after i put a towel on his cage so they cant get in contact with eachother, but the mouse is seriously way too confident to be doing all of this; to comfortably run around on my bed - marked by my mouse, and try to literally attack my mouse.. wtf

btw; i cant find it. i think its eaten into the bottom of my bed and is sleeping inside of it. i actually do feel really fucking bad for it, because it shouldnt live like this, and in so much fear, but it doesnt know i just wanted to help it. i just cant get past him attacking my mouse.

btw, im terrified for my mouse as much as i would believe anyone is; he is okay, i do not know if the other mouse holds any parasites or anything, so thats a concern. but its 5am suns almost rising, im not sleeping incase of anything; im just so fucking worried for my mouse. and also... i just want my life back lol. i love chilling in bed with my mouse watching a show, not worried if the "other mouse" (ffs) is waiting to attack him or something.

sorry this is super long. im just lost, and i seriously cant catch it; its way too fast for me.
and for some reason it put all 6 videos together idk how to fix.

Thank you to everyone who gave me tips and advice for my unexpected mice. Bait and Snacrifice are getting alone swimmingly. While we’re still working towards hand taming, the whole family gets a ton of enjoyment just from watching them being the cute little fuzzballs they are.

after the three craziest months of my life, i finally was able to purchase and set up a new cage for butters!! its literally 3x bigger than his old one. i’m almost worried he’ll be scared and lonely in such a huge ass cage. anyways, he seems really happy exploring so far! I have sprays and a new water bottle in the mail, ive been making enrichment toys with cardboard and fruits/veggies and hes been very happy! im going to start letting him outside the cage in a playpen in my room (not the rest of the house cause my cat and dog). does anyone have any other suggestions for his new house?? does he need a friend?

Just picked up my first ever mice today. It’s thrilling to watch them explore everything I’ve set up for them, but I’d like a second take on the wheel size. Does it look okay?

Having some fun with a new marker set, and one of my favorite things to do as quick doodles is little blob mice. Needed some new subjects, so figured I’d come here and see if there are any volunteers. I will draw your little guy in Situations. A quick sketch of my little guys included.

One female mouse, yes ik they shouldn’t live alone but she had a traumatic experience and has since become aggressive towards other mice. I tried bonding her 4 diff times with 6 different mice, nothing worked and she seems a lot happier alone (not hiding constantly and finally making nests/gaining weight).

No water bottle in this photo bc this was right after I cleaned the tank. Also the fabric on the outside of the tank was wrapped around 3 sides but it keeps falling down lol.

The tank size is a 50gal tank 36”L 18”W and 18”H, the bedding is about 7” deep.
The wheel is a 9” silent runner. The woods in the tank are mopani wood, cork logs, cholla wood, and apple wood sticks. Substrates are aspen, paper, Timothy hay, and dry sphagnum moss. Those rocks are ones I grabbed from my backyard, I cleaned them real well ofc. There are different sprays in there and she eats Mazuri mouse pellets + gets a seed mix sprinkled around the cage.

Edit: the white thing in the 2nd photo is a PVC tube I’m using as a tunnel.

pretty much what the title says. i went to give nimbus some cucumber unaware that it was expired (it wasnt slimy or soft where i cut the tiny piece from) so i assumed it was fine just to find out it was expired. he ate it 5 ish hours ago and seems fine but im just paranoid. it smelled fine too when i first got it out but now it smells rancid but maybe thats cause its been sitting in the trash for 5 hours (yes i dug it out, i got paranoid the second my dad told me it was actuallt spoiled).