When I came in last night I found lots of mice having a good time in the giant tank. Resident thieves Strudel and Kinko were pal'ing it up on one of the gravity wheels...




Those two are best of friends lately, they are always out together. Things were more edgy on the green mesh wheel. Oreo was occupying it, not using it, just sitting on it and snacking, which annoyed poor Prima who wanted to have a run...




So she chased the older mouse off it, then took over...




Lookit Prima, she is warning me to stay off the wheel too, it's her property now.

And one of our favorites was under the wheel, having some supper:




That's Pixie, a fawn colored doe with pretty ruby eyes. She was very hard to tame, it took nearly a year, but now she enjoys being picked up daily...

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beautiful colours

oh i reli want some mice now!!

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My Zoo!
Hamters - Millie & Princess.Gerbil-Drexel Mice-Salazar, Chocolate-drop, Snowflake, Monty, The Twins. Rat-Walter Goldfish-Orange Horses- Sinbad, Pinkie & Jasper Dogs- Freddie, Charlie, Suzie & Tacco 60+ CockRoaches, 13 Giant african land snails and 22 Stick insects! R.I.P TO ALL MY BABIES OVER RAINBOW BRIDGE <3

They are hard to resist, yep.

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My messiest mouse by far is a doe named Maple. Here's the little slob:




Isn't she a cute brown and white Skewbald? Don't let her sweetness fool you, she loves kicking food out of the dish. That mess she is standing in is her own, she does it constantly. And when I say she kicks, she really kicks, it can go flying across the tank, banging against the glass and rattling down on the hutches. She has been known to wake up other mice.




It's a good thing a lot of the other giant tank mice like to scavenge, or else the food she tosses out would go to waste. Maple has been with us a long while and she has had a litter of pups. We still have one of them, her daughter Razzle.:




The reason we kept Razzle is because unlike the rest of her siblings, Razzle does not like being handled. It's an odd thing, sometimes no matter how careful you are hand-raising a litter, one of the pups still won't like humans.

We like Razzle though, even though we hardly ever see her. She spends most of her time in hiding, we really only see her during tank cleanings. But she is happy and healthy, and that's what's important.

Her mom Maple sure loves being handled though...




Maple loves to climb and explore, she is a pleasant mouse and I look forward to seeing her each morning.

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Things are going great with our new mouse Calypso. She has gotten over her shyness and will now allow herself to be picked up...




Caly has to sniff the hand carefully first, checking each finger seperately, but once satisfied that I smell okay she will carefully climb aboard...




She really has been growing a lot lately, she has been gaining weight and length, I'm hoping she will get as big as her daddy, as her mom was a little smaller then him. Only time will tell...




What's important right now is for me to foster a good relationship with Calypso, as down the road I hope to breed her in order to continue our Pinto line...




If she doesn't fear me, and openly enjoys my presence, then that will give her future pups a much better chance of survival. A nervous mouse can be a poor mother, but it's looking like Calypso will be fine.

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