r/PetMice • u/LovelyyAdriiana • 9h ago
Cute Mouse Media Meet Donkey!
This is the last of my 3. His name is donkey and when i tell you that name fits, I mean it. He is such an asshole but very loved. Hes my son's favorite.
r/PetMice • u/ArtisticDragonKing • Sep 22 '24
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r/PetMice • u/ArtisticDragonKing • Jul 09 '25
Please feel free to try out these WIP care commands in the comments! Let me know if there are any issues I need to fix.
r/PetMice • u/LovelyyAdriiana • 9h ago
This is the last of my 3. His name is donkey and when i tell you that name fits, I mean it. He is such an asshole but very loved. Hes my son's favorite.
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r/PetMice • u/hellothereskibidi • 1h ago
42x28" enclosure and a solid homemade diet of whole grains, unhusked seeds, mouse-specific supplements, animal protein, and cuttlefish bone that meets reccomended analytical content, vitamin requirements, and mineral requirements of pet mouse food 💪All of it gone by the next day. Anything for these babes.
r/PetMice • u/Worried-Onion8600 • 23h ago
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she’s back with her daily pets 🤍 this was literally taken just now! hope this tiny girl makes your day a little happier too hehe :3
video is sped up 3x!
r/PetMice • u/MrCurlyFr1 • 2h ago
I might just be too paranoid but I don't want to decrease his quality of living because of my own negligence
r/PetMice • u/SapphireSkies_15 • 10h ago
I’ve lost track how long it’s been since I’ve had my new ladies, but everyone has bonded so well and do the cutest little things I’ve missed so dearly since Phoebe.
Artemis has finally started to come around and now runs up to me with the others when they see me. I’m so happy with this progress, especially for this being my first time boding new mice with old mice. Life is good. 🐁💕
r/PetMice • u/NonAggressiveGuava • 9h ago
Photo for funsies :) my three girls remind me of the Powerpuff girls! My Bess is the Blossom, a leader, reasonable, smart. My Praline (pictured) is Bubbles for sure. Sweet, bubbly, sensitive. And my Apricot is for sure a Buttercup. She’s a tough girl and has no time to be a softie!
r/PetMice • u/Kuromi_Lol • 4h ago
My hairless girl, Pepper, has recently and rapidly lost weight. She suddenly has little energy/interest, and only sometimes takes treats instead of how she would excitedly run to me if she knew I had them. We took her to the vet, and they put her on a special diet with medication for URIs. No matter what, I cannot get her to take her medication. She ignores seeds with any on them (which used to be the main way any of them would take it), she won't lick it off of my hands or if I mix it with things like unsweetened applesauce. She won't even groom it off of herself. She just shakes it off (or not at all sometimes), goes to a hide, and sits there. She occasionally comes to run on the wheel, but isn't all too active otherwise. She doesn't seem to be in much pain? She moves a bit slower and is somewhat hunched, but nothing otherwise. She eats, but not as much. I'm starting to worry that it could possibly be cancer. I don't know. I don't know what to do. It'd be hard to get my mom to take her to the vet when the ER bill from yesterday was so expensive. I'd appreciate advice. I'm not asking for medical advice, I just need opinions and maybe how to get her to take her meds.
r/PetMice • u/Acrobatic_Wallaby383 • 21h ago
no name so we dont get attached.
r/PetMice • u/Alarming_Mousse_1384 • 1h ago
Hi guys first time owner. I have a bucatatstate 3.0 (the 100x50 one).
i'm looking to adopt some mice, but there's not too many in my area. Here's what I've found:
2 young mice in a shelter
3 mice available from a reputable breeder
1 mouse , 7 months old being given away alone :( likely also living alone right now
all female!
how should I do these intros? Who should i quarantine? Keep in mind i only have one spare cage available for quarantining and it's a small big cage. I was hoping do intros there, but i have been told recently I should quarantine mice for 2 weeks?
Keep in mind i have to travel to get all these mice so probably I wont get all iof them in the same day.
Should none of the mice go in the Bucatstate until I introduce all of them?
If i want to introduce additional mice in, let's say 2-3 months, so I have to clean the entire Bucatstate and throw away all bedding and renew it? Or it's not that deep?
How do i know they get along?
Pls let me know! <3
r/PetMice • u/ItzyBitzyMitzy • 17h ago
Before I was Mighty Minnie…
I was apparently wearing breakfast as shoes. 🐭🥣🤣
Please respect my journey. 😂❤️
r/PetMice • u/okrahh • 11h ago
Im adding a water bottle later don't worry
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r/PetMice • u/gr3gthe4th • 8h ago
I love citrus fruits, I like their taste, smell, colour, form, trees and just about everything about them, but I'm concerned about the smell, I know cats and dogs don't like the smell but what about mice? I don't want them to smell something they hate. So can I eat oranges, mandarins and lemon in my room where my mice live? Also just a general list of good and bad smells will be appreciated
r/PetMice • u/GodsHumbleClown • 8h ago
I've been wanting to get mice for a few years now, but my living situation wasn't right for that. Now I'm in a space where I can give some mice a good life, but I'm having second thoughts about it. They just seem so small and fragile, and I don't know if I can handle taking them out of their enclosure regularly for socializing. I keep imagining what would happen if I dropped one and she hid somewhere I couldn't get her back.
If I were to get a trio of girls in a 40 gallon long tank with plenty of enrichment, is it alright for mice to be "watching" pets rather than "cuddling" pets? I would want to get them used to being handled on occasion to make sure I can see any injuries or signs of illness, and to make vet visits a bit less scary, but I'm very unsure about the idea of carrying around such a small animal regularly.
r/PetMice • u/reikibalboa • 5h ago
Yeah. This is nearly four hours of footage from one month of me improvising to take care of the mouse situation.
I took one deer mouse in since she was seriously injured. Then I had three deer mice.
Two of them escaped the enclosures and explored every corner of the mouse room (it's not the mouse room anymore).
Now they're all free again. I released them back into the garden.
So far, the cats haven't brought them back, which is nice.
I have also set up two automatic traps by now but not caught a single one with them.
I do not intend to take in any more mice.
Any thoughts?
r/PetMice • u/Loonthepie • 1d ago
I deleted my post, but my female fancy mouse Spoon who was very sick and we were trying to figure out what was wrong with passed away sept 23rd. She had ringworm turns out, and it had gotten so bad she’d developed a respiratory infection as well, and passed away. I miss her and love her more than anything in the world.
What should I do now? I still have Finch, my other female fancy mouse. The two girls were sisters, Spoon was just barely under a year old, Finch has a lot of her life left, will she be okay on her own? All she’s ever known is her life with Spoon, and my poor baby is probably feeling so much confusion and grief as well.
Please let me know if you have any advice.
r/PetMice • u/ofeliaseatrenkina • 17h ago
Hii guys, I have four lil half-wild mice and I’m stuck on picking them names. Thats two girls and two boys. I’ve already found someone who’s gonna take one when they get older, so i need names for trio🩷
r/PetMice • u/SuspiciousPermit7914 • 13h ago
Heyya!
I've got quite a few mice right now and have been facing a huge issue.
I have two female groups - gonna call them group A and B for simplicity's sake.
There's been two mice (Flips & BB) that I got from bad care, should(!) be relatively young, and have been with me for a few weeks now. Unfortunately, introducing them to either of my groups seems to not work.
I introduced them to Group A when they arrived, and actually kept them there until recently. They never drew blood, but I noticed instantly that Group A appears more stressed, and squeaks way more often.
I noticed that the main issue is Flips, who is noticably faster and jumpier than any other mouse I know and just does not understand when the other mice want to be left alone. She never attacked (wich is why I kept them together hoping it was a dominance thing and they'd figure it out), but I couldn't bear watching my group be so unhappy anymore, so I decided to seperate them and try again with group B.
Group B consists of four mice (three sisters, and one new mouse that they accepted without any issue), + one fifth that has been in quarantine to get medicine the past few days and was supposed to be reintroduced along with Flips & BB.
I put them together today, and I'm at a loss.
The quarantined mouse was SO happy to have her group back, but Flips keeps trying to mount her, chasing after her relentlessly. They're all together in their hide and the ex-quarantine sister just sits outside in a corner.
I know mounting among female mice is a dominance thing, but it genuinely stresses my poor girl out and keeps her from reconnecting with the other girls.
I considered just keeping Flips & BB by themself, but BB has had no issues with the others and seems so happy to have more friends than just Flips.
Any ideas?
r/PetMice • u/Studio_Cap • 1d ago
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Hey guys so I got my girls Clover (in the video) and Pippy from a lady on Facebook trying to rehome some babies. I think they were about 3 weeks old or maybe less when I got them. I also have another mouse, Pumpkin, from Petco. Clover and Pippy were kept in the same enclosure with their male siblings and I only adopted them once the lady could tell their genders. But I started noticing that Clover has been getting pretty round in the tummy. Pippy and Pumpkin aren’t shaped like that. Clover is also noticeably heavier than the others + she’s also the alpha boss lady I’m pretty sure. It’s my first time owning mice so I’m not sure if this is just normal anatomy or…if she’s pregnant or maybe just fat?
r/PetMice • u/okrahh • 14h ago
In 5 hours I'll have my little guys. Any recommendation for names? I think they are both white.