I love this thread Neza, its like a little mousie soap opera.

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Thanks. I love taking lots of pics of my animals and thought this would be a fun way to share them.

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Ragu's pups are all eating hard food and drinking from the water bowl now, so very soon I'm going to have to seperate the boys from the girls. Which is too bad for the boys because they love the big gravity wheel...




That's one of the Pearl males above, you can tell by his interesting tail marking, all the girls have little white tail tips (one has none), but the males have large white tail markings, which makes telling who is who much easier for me.

The two Broken Agouti does I'm keeping are really friendly now...




I took them out to play on the bed this morning and they raced around chasing each other, I plucked at their tails and they loved it, they climbed all over me...




I hope that I can keep them with Ragu once the boys are gone, though I wonder how she will treat them once she stops acting like their mom...




We'll just have to wait and see...

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Two new mice have joined my tanks, they are a pair of Broken Agouti does bred by a friend. Here is the first one I have called Zest:




And this is her sister Zoom:




They were added to our largest tank last night and so far have been accepted. It helps that they still aren't adults and smell like family, as they are cousins to Poppy, our Agouti mom. I hope Zoom and Zest are very happy here.

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Our two new mice are getting along nicely in their new home. Zest really likes the big red dome house...




Zest was up there again when I came in to check on them this morning and a moment later her sister Zoom hopped up to say hello...




Zoom is a perfect name for her because she zooms all over the place like a bullet, she rarely slows down, what an energetic little mouse...




So even if an adult mouse has a problem with Zoom they wouldn't be able to catch her anyway.

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I took Ragu's boys out this morning and put them in the temporary isolation tank. They will live there until my friend who is adopting them and one of the girls comes to pick them up. The boys are having lots of fun exploring their new home...




I gave them a plastic house to sleep in and stuck an egg carton behind it. They love climbing the carton and digging in the hay I put in the tank...




Meanwhile, back in the nesting tank, Ragu has stopped acting like a mom and now just treats her girls like regular mice...




None of them try to nurse from her anymore, not that Ragu would let them, so now we shall see how things go with them just being friends...




Most likely though she will soon need to return home and a little while after that her daughters will follow after her...

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Ragu's boys are gone, their new owner came and picked them up last night, and she took one of the Pearl does and the two Broken Agoutis she wanted as well, so all I have left are my two BA's and three Pearl girls. And their mom of course.

I cleaned the nesting tank this morning, and while I was doing it Ragu and the girls waited in the isolation tank...




As you can see, they loved the spinner I keep in there...




The Pearl does figured out how to run on it right away and with their mom's help they easily tossed their smaller BA sisters off it...




Poor little things, they kept trying to get back on, but they never lasted long...




Hopefully by the next time I clean their tank they will be strong enough to keep up...

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I'm pleased to announce the two newest members of our little small animal zoo, and while they are mice they aren't mice like any of our others. Take a look, here's the first:




And this is the second:




Yep, they are Multimammate Mice, also known as African Soft Furred Rats, or Devil Dogs. The one with the white head is what's called a Pied, while the other is a Head Spot Agouti. I love the names.




I have researched them thoroughly and consulted with experts and it's supposedly true, they can live happily with Fancy mice. A friend of mine has had one living with six of hers for awhile now without a single incident, so I have decided to give it a try...




They may look like normal mice in the pics, but trust me they are BIG. The younger Head Spot Agouti is already slightly bigger then Frenzy, my largest Fancy mouse. And her Pied friend is easily twice her size...

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My two new Multimammates are settling in nicely, they have lost all their fear and come out and play now. They won't allow themselves to be picked up yet, but don't mind being stroked on the back or head...




I just finished cleaning out my largest tank and my plan is to introduce the smaller one to the group. Here she is taking a look around halfway through the job:




We have picked out names them, the younger Face Spot has been called Marigold:




And the older week-old Pied has been given the name Tumble:




I personally called her that because when I was in the mall parking lot accepting her from my friend, a van came whipping around the turn going way too fast and actually hit me, can you believe it? Anyway, luckily the driver slammed on her breaks in time and so I was only sent crashing into another car instead of getting mowed down.

The poor ASF went tumbling across the pavement in her container, poor thing. While I sustained a badly twisted ankle and two upper-arm fractures, she was just badly shaken. And that's why I called her Tumble...




Tumble seems perfectly fine now and once I see how Marigold does with my Fancy mice I'll decide if she can get a shot at joining the tank as well...

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Since Ragu and her five daughters are now alone in the nesting tank, it's time to replace their old home. And we have just the thing for them...




It's a large wooden cube with several different shaped holes on the sides and roof. The girls had a great time exporing it's ins and outs...



The cube has no bottom so it connects directly to the floor of the tank and I put lots of stuff in there for them to build a nice nest. And I put hay on the roof to climb in, chew, and to use as a construction material...




And the best part of this new house is that it will be easier for us to see the pups...




They can live in here happily until they have their final growth spurt...

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