Awwww!!! How cute! ^.^ I love mice! I don't love having them in my house (unless I put them there, of course), but they are so cute! When I was a kid, we used to raise domestic mice because Dad had a savanna monitor lizard and that was what we had to feed them.
Since we had to feed them to him anyways...I used them to conduct my own experiments. Don't worry! It wasn't anything to harm them! I would just have different pairs mate to see what the offspring would inherit, and because they were for food, Mom and Dad wouldn't buy more than four (two to begin with, and then a second set to breed with two of the offspring) so I also tested what inbreeding does to them. I learned some interesting things such as: 1. If you mix a brown mouse with a black spotted mouse, after about the third generation a brown spotted mouse with show. They were rare- and we only ever had three...all male, believe it or not. 2. Spotted mice are less likely to develop tumors from several generations of inbreeding, whereas almost all solid colored mice exhibited tumors after five or six generations. 3. As far as color goes, black is the most common, followed by white with black spots, then brown, then white with brown spots. 4. The one trait that ALL of the spotted mice exhibited was a large spot covering the entire back region 5. Mice will eat their own young if they feel over-crowded, if there is a shortage of food, or if they get into fights with one another (like revenge- I've watched one mouse consistently pick on another- only to watch later that night- while the bully mouse was eating- the picked on mouse would go and try to eat their young. I stopped it, of course, but it doesn't mean it hadn't happened before) 6. Female mice will nurse each other's young, even if they don't have any themselves.
Sorry to get nerdy on you lol but it was very interesting for me and...well...I'm a nerd.
Also, I caught a wild mouse once. I scared his mother and she dropped him- so I took him in (we had mice really bad- but I wouldn't let my parents kill em so glue traps everywhere...however...my Dad was cruel and liked to shoot them with a blowgun...I would cry and bawl and scream and he would just laugh and keep doing it). I used my favorite mouse, Peace (she had a literal peace sign on her face), and used her to "induct" him into the...well...horde lol
NEVER do that, though. Apparently, he had a disease and it ended up killing everyone off
it started off slow, one by one, but I ended up going to go check on them one day (after about 3 days) and they were all dead.
The lizard had died a few months before this...but he committed suicide. Decided to jump off the top of his cage for whatever reason...we went out to eat and came home n he was dead. Crazy thing.
Sorry to be so gloomy but its good you didn't kill the mice
We had one at the house we lived it at before where I live now- I named him Henry lol!
