June 27The proud Aunt Naja and Mom Jana, looking after the 10 surviving pups out of 12. The babies have now started to open thier eyes a little and are all stong healthy looking fellows!!
This is thier current tank set-up, I moved them all into a larger tank as the pups will soon be moving around more. They started to open thier eyes yesterday. I took these photos on the 25th.
Here is a group of the lighter grey pups, they don't sho too well in the photo but the darker grey ones are not quite black but almost, some have balckish muzzles and some don't. These 3 pops out of the nest when Jana left as they where still hanging on and didn't want to let go!! They spend most of thier time inside the nest where I can't see them, unlike Oraoro the foster mouse who had an open air nest.
[right] The little beigh male wondering out of the nest!
This is Versa and Patch, two foster mice. Vise, Versa, Patch and Sugar are all going to live in Toronto!!
Patch and Versa took to eachother right away, they are now cagemates along with Sugar and groom eachother, sleep together and all!! They have become very close in a short time. Sugar is 5 weeks old, Patch is 8-9 weeks old and Versa is about 6 or so months old.
Here is Sugar, a 5 week old PEW pup and Versa meeting for the first time, Versa took to her right away and now they and Patch will be cagemates. They are going to Toronto to thier new home shortly and will be leaving to another foster home this Sat.
Here is Versa, a longhaired satin siamese seal point fox mouse.. and her brother who lives alone, Visa a longhaired satin red mouse.
June 19
[left] Jana and Naja have a snack, it's very hard work with you have 11-12 little ones to look after!! This is there temporary tank, when the foster mice go for adoption onthe 4th of July they'll be moving into a bigger tank with thier pinkies to have more room to raise them.
My little Meeka was very very very depressed, she was sleeping alot and was barbering her fur to the point she had bald patches, she missed having her "sisters" Nya and Spaz soooo much!! We spent some of yesterday doing and introduction with Reena as she is not due for a long while to have any babies and so far they are getting alone and no fighting, lookes like they'll be friends!!
Meeka and Reena becomeing cagemates, the day after first introduction.
[left] Reena renovating the nest for her and Meeka to sleep in, she is a busy bee!!!
June 16
Naja and Jana are sisters, they lived with about 11 other mice originaly in a crowded cage and where destined to be used for either feeders or having litter after litter to be used as feeders. Now they are pets, Naja is a little nervous but taming nicely, I have yet to work with Jana since she was very pregnant and now has babies, but she has shown herself to be a friendly mouse as well.
Reena is a himalayan seal point mouse, she is just in the early stages of pregnancy and is not due for some time, which is good as I will have time to look after Jana's pups!
June 04 Meet Naja, Jana and Reena and Diva
Meeka is starting to look her age, she is about 1.5yrs old now, she is still very active and healthy!!!
Meeka going into one of her tubes!!Egyptian Spiny Mouse: Diva
June 19Finnaly our little spiny mouse has a name! She is Diva, because she is a little devil and eat her nesting box!! :)
Diva is such a cute little girl, we have been able to find out she also come from the lady that owned Nya and Spaz which I adopted from Toronto so Reena and Diva where once from the same home, Diva isn't very old she was about 8 weeks or so when she went to the house in Kanata......
[left]Cute Diva looking up from her nesting box, now sporting some nice wholes!! She will be moving into a larger wire cage soon!! but for now she is in the one pictured below.
After a while she'll have the larger tank but it's first being used by the foster mice and then later Jana and Naja so she won't have it for about 6 weeks!!
[right] check out the little quills!! in french spinies are called "hedgehog mice"
Here is Diva's little hamster cage, she came in this with only a food and water bowl, but now I have added some things for her, I will be giving her more toys once she is into her larger cage. I will also be getting her some different bowl as she chews the plastic ones but that was all we had at the time.
june 16 Spiny was sick and has been on medication, she is doing much better now and feeling good, she is not all that easy to photoraph though and I have yet to get any good pictures of her!! When all the others are sorted out she will be moving into a glass tank with alot more space, where she'll be happier for sure and easier to photograph!!june 04
Here is our new little spiny mouse, we have yet to name her, she and Jana, Naja and Reena where all rescued by the OHS.
Spinies are very unique and wonderful little mice, I will be redoing all my spiny information as well as more about out tailed spiny!!
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Past mice; March 2002 Spaz passed away
Lunch (white and grey), Dinner (cream with red eyes) and Snack (silver) Recently I been looking up the proper color names: BROKEN MARKED: Lilac/white, SELF: Ivory (red eyes), SELF: Lilac (or Dove)
Some time back.. a 1-2 years now I guess, someone brought us 13 "STRAY" mice, mixed males and females and of age to breed. All female mice went to someone to care for as I was worried about them.. I even took out an add to find them homes.. and well 3 came home as "foster mice", the mother and 2 daughters (the male mice went up for adoptions and all DID get adopted).
Lunch, Dinner and Snack.. it was kind of a joke because we have cats... they lived in a modifided safarie cage by hagen. After having them for a long time, it was clean none where pregnant.. but they became members of the family (I didn't have my digital then)
As a child I also looked after and released injured wild field mice, although they where never considered pets.
