Mice Babies

I know not everyone thinks mice are cute, but I love my little critters and I love my new little mice babies!

I think it's really interesting seeing how much they seem to grown over night. They'll be one week old tomorrow. In another three weeks they'll be weaned from their mummy and fully grown... scary.

Day one: tiny little pink jelly beans.

Day two

Day three: ohhhh look at mummy

Day four

Day five: everyone with mummy and then the five girls be themselves.

Day six: love...

Day six: look how they're growing and starting to get fur. Those are my two favourite boys. I'll be keeping them. The  black and white has been named Patrick, but the other we'll name when we see his true colour. Look at that fat belly and little ears. 

You can really see how much they have grown since day one. Yes, that little fella is a piggy and the biggest of the bunch but isn't he cute. 

Good thing Smokey hasn't found the babies! Their room door has been closed off to her. She gave one of my other mice a fright last night. Poor little Maggie played dead for almost 30min. Smokey jumped at her cage and tried to topple it. Maggie has now been moved to the safe room away from Smokey.

Help! and meet Smokey

Help!

This is Smokey. She is a gorgeous one year old cat.

Isn't she a beautiful colour? A friend at work couldn't keep her, so we agreed to adopt her. She hates me though...well hates a strong word.She doesn't know me and it's her first night here. As you can see she won't come out of her travel cage. Yup, that's food I tried to lure her out with. She just looks so sad and I want her to settle in easily.

So help! How do I help her settle in and feel safe with us?

At the moment I'm just leaving her be, but any other tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated. I've never re-homed a cat before. All ours have been kittens when we got them.

Also...look what we have!

11 baby mice. They're 3 days old now. I love how their markings are starting to show now. Look at the cute little one with a black head and bum and big white belly! Mummy mouse Jasmine is a shiny black mouse and daddy Barnabas is a brown with white band. I can't wait to see how they turn out.

Mum...I got a new Pet!

**Caution** Don't read if you can't stand mice!

About 2 weeks ago my gorgeous, very cute and friendly mouse died. It was very sudden and I was rather sad.

That Saturday I ventured down to the pet shop... They only had two mice! I felt so sorry for Barnabas I had to bring him home with me. He's full grown and very skittish. He's really not so keen on people so it's taking ages to tame him. Unfortunately he didn't replace my poor little Ted.

Barnabas

Barnabas will be going to school when the term starts again...and staying there as a class pet.

Then I found someone willing to sell me a couple of baby girl mice very cheaply. Yay! They're babies so they'll like me? But I needed a new cage for them. So I went to the other pet store...and they had so many mice. We watched them for ages. And then we saw the cutest little fella. Nick had to have him.

Theodore the 2nd

Yes he named him Ted again...much to our 5 year old nephews disappointment (No no no he's not Ted). Ted is Nicks mouse. The first night he was at home, Nick actually put a heater on in the room Teds cage is in...He was worried he would be too cold!

I actually rang mum saying Nick bought a new pet, she started panicking that Nick had bought a puppy! 

Then I got my girls. They were just too cute...I couldn't choose...

How could you separate that!

Lucky the cage I'd bought for them was a nice big cage!

Foxy Roxy

Maggie (She's just over 3 weeks old...so tiny)

Clio

Jaz

I know some people, ok a lot of people really can't stand mice, but I love them. I don't think I'd be keen on owning a rat though! Mice are cute and little, they don't take up much room or need to much looking after. They're friendly, well most mice are and they're inexpensive. The mice was $4....the puppy I wanted was $600...