Beloved Little Stu

Stuart, the lap mouse :) Merry Christmas to everyone ! :D

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• rodent

[mickeydii]

I know that this won't have anything to do with the video, but I was just curious: Now that you're living up in the Yukon, don't the wild pendulum swings between loooong hours of darkness in the winters and endless daytimes in the summer get on one's nerves up there?

Just that I prefer the amount of daylight hours a little more evened out throughout the year. Anyhow, Cute pet mice though...

[CreekValleyCritters]

@mickeydii Before we moved, everyone went on and on about how dark it is in the winter, how people get depressed because of it and have to have special lights to keep their mood up. We have now passed the day with the shortest daylight and I am amazed how people make a fuss about nothing. It really is not much darker here than Quesnel were we came from, the dark never killed anyone and is that not what light bulbs are for anyway? It is the high cost of living that is the scary thing here........

[CreekValleyCritters]

@mickeydii I actually really like having seasonal changes. Each season has its own special magic and because you know they will pass, you enjoy them to the fullest. It keeps life interesting to have this continuous change..........

[mickeydii]

@CreekValleyCritters Well, I could stomach the wild fluctuations in daylight hours, it's just the snow and the cold sub-zero-Fahrenheit temperatures that I really don't like. I live in Edmonton, Alberta. And for the past month or more, we've been enjoying plus-20s°F, 30s-F and even a few days of plus-40s°F. BTW, I've been Albertan-Canadian all my life, I'm Age-35++, I'm just opposed to metrication in Canada...That's all. So, for the past 15½ years, I've used Fahrenheit...

[CreekValleyCritters]

@mickeydii I think the biggest difference is that compared to Edmonton, Whitehorse is stunningly beautiful, this makes any winter discomforts easier to bear. It is a small town but has many of the features of a large city, it has the best of both worlds. The downside is the cost of housing, about equal to Victoria, which makes the whole cost of living very high. Whitehorse has a dry climate, we do not get that much snow, you can go hiking all year round, are not shut in like in wetter climates.

[mickeydii]

Creek Valley Critters, Please don't answer this question if you don't feel comfortable answering it. When your mousekids i.e. Stuart, Mattie, Evelyn, Vivian, Quasimodo etc... pass on, are they cremated or retained for burial?

[CreekValleyCritters]

@mickeydii With my small animals I bury them on our property. I do the same with my large animals unless they die in winter, then I have them cremated. If a small animal dies in the winter time when the ground is too hard for burial, I keep the little body in the freezer in a labelled ziploc baggie until spring.

[24BigRex]

Stuart is soo chubby! cute lol!

[Smoky688]

i wish my mice would love me that much... and one of them got there first "battle wound" Somky we think was bitten by Charcoal and its now a small bloody wound but its healing well up now, not worth going to the vet but if they needed it i would spend all $600 i have

[chickenmom]

What a little sweetheart. I can always tell a gentle and compassionate owner, when the animals are so relaxed around them. The little ones don't have a care in the world because they know they are protected.

[SkullFace1909]

Stuart Little! :D

[SpaceNerdGirl]

He's so big now!