#Fancy mice

[justslowdown]

Good news!

Them

[nyctibiius]

she has been pickled for her crimes

[shyhandart]

Your comms help me spoil little guys like this rotten btw

Video id: Patella, a black and white mouse sits in my hand and gets scritches from my thumb. I pull my thumb away for a second and he stretches out to follow it. I concede and return to petting his head, and he nestles his chin back into the crook or my finger contentedly /end id

This is Patella, he's the mouse i'm fostering through @tinywhiskersanimalrescue here and on instagram. He also has several brothers also available through the rescue. They provide shelter for hamsters, gerbils, rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, and i think one chinchilla(?). Theyre located in Minnesota if youd like to donate, volunteer or adopt :3!

[newkiqx]

Curious ladies

[saisonmousery]

Instagram: @thatmousegirl The goodest and most polite boy ♡

[reliapet]

Alright, I'm saying it. Bigger is better.

No, really.

Gerbils, degus, chinchillas, especially hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits all benefit from a

Bigger cage.

Rabbits are able to binkie and run, your guinea pigs will popcorn more, your chinchillas will have more space for natural behaviors.

Your birds, given enough space, will have enough room for free flight in their own enclosure.

Your bearded dragon will have more roaming room.

Your fish tank will be more stable in it's levels and less likely to have a cycle crash.

Bigger is certainly better with enclosures.

Except for mice.

The animal kingdom is so big, so vast and diverse, that no matter what you say there's likely an exception.

"Mammals don't lay eggs"

The platypus laughed at that one.

And mice laugh at bigger is better. But, their laughs often go unheard. With all other pets benefiting from larger enclosures, people often assume the same also goes for mice. But mice are not hamsters, in face they get stressed out in large, open spaces.

Mice like their enclosures to be cluttered. And I don't mean a little bit here and there so it looks messy, I'm talking hoarder house levels. Stuff stacked on top of stuff, stuff buried under the bedding, stuff everywhere.

And technically, yes, they can be mostly okay in a large enclosure. Sometimes. If the entire space is cluttered that way. And most people don't realize how difficult it is to do that. But after a certain point, no amount of clutter will make a large space okay for a mouse. They'll be constantly stressed and unhappy.

For 3 female mice or 1 male mouse, a 20 gallon tank is all they need. It will have enough of everything to make them happy if cluttered properly, and they will thrive. You do not need to upgrade to a 30 gallon tank unless you are going to have more mice in the enclosure.

so remember,

Bigger is better,

Except when it's mice. 🐁

[too-many-mice]

Might try posting some more regularly.

Mouse momdays.

This week's feature are these lovly Himalayian Does and Siamese Buck.

Im slowly getting to where i want to be with ears and over all size.

The hobby in Australia is so neich there a not many breeders out there dedicated to show standards.

[skullprincess]

Check out my babies! I have like 20 right now lol

[smellyfishlover]

My little guys as a drawing

[ripinpipsmousery]

Girls night!!

[justslowdown]

I diagnose her with Too many baby

[nyctibiius]

KARAMELKA!!!!

[terreurs]

slurping the paste

[mouse-of-leaves]

Bebe eat cheerios

[newkiqx]

so. my mice were being a little rowdy, chasing each other up and down a ramp as part of their silly dominance games. It looked pretty funny - mice running up a ramp almost turn into bumper cars when viewed in profile, low to the floor and tail up - so I set up my action cam to capture the mayhem.

immediately, this calmed them down. Because what?? is ? that???

I don't know what I expected. didn't get any of the footage I planned for

[saisonmousery]

Instagram: @thatmousegirl Doesn’t he just look so lovely and wholesome?