Raising a Baby Mouse 1/10 The First Day

Warning: for inexperienced animal people the failure rate for trying to handraise a baby mouse is around 75%. It is very painful loosing a baby mouse because you get to love them so much. Think carefully about it before you try.

The First Day

The first day you have your little mouse is very important, especially if it is an orphan. Orphans have often been abandoned for quite a few hours before you find them and so will be cold and dehydrated. You need to get them warmed up (electric heater pad set on low works best) and rehydrated (electrolyte solution for babies is best, or water if you that is all you have).

Matilda was not an orphan, but if I had not come along she would have become frozen snake food. I got her when she was only four days old. I had been hoping for a little older, around 7 days old, but the breeder has none. Fuzzies, little mice who already have hair but do not have their eyes open, are much easier to handraise and you are more likely to succeed. But I am experienced at handraising mice, so I got Mattie as a pinky. I like to handraise my mice because that way they grow up thinking they are human and become the most magical pet, so tiny and yet so trusting and loving.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• mice
• mouse
• pinky
• fuzzy
• mouslet
• infant
• baby
• hand
• raising
• rearing
• bottle
• feeding
• imprinting
• imprinted
• milk
• cute
• pet
• rodent
• animal
• care
• caring
• Matilda
• Stuart
• nursing
• electrolytes
• orphan
• orphaned