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Post by jennawing on Jul 31, 2005 14:53:00 GMT
This is my Eli- who just seems to keep getting bigger and bigger! haha! I need to find my smaller scale, but on the big one- he registered somewhere between 60 and 80 gram (not very accurate reading in other words).  |
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Post by Josie on Jul 31, 2005 14:56:21 GMT
He's so tubby and cute!  |
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Post by lpn1993 on Aug 8, 2005 10:40:51 GMT
Wow, what a chubby!! ;D
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Post by Clover on Aug 8, 2005 15:40:42 GMT
Oh he is tubby isn't he, very cute!! Maybe he needs to start a mousy diet  Mice are usually very active arn't they, could he be eating a bit too much mouse pellets.?Not quite the same, but our bunny Thumper was on a pellet diet and after a while he slowly began to loose weight. I'm not sure about mice though as they have high energy level don't they? |
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Post by jennawing on Aug 9, 2005 5:07:09 GMT
Certain colours are linked to an obesity gene- goldens, creams, and agoutis. I have started removing all the seeds from his mix- so hopefully that will help. I also moved him into a new cage with a new (quieter) wheel and he seems to like it better. He's cute fat, but don't want him having a little Mousy heart-attack!
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Post by Clover on Aug 9, 2005 8:24:57 GMT
Aww no, he really is lovely ;D He reminds me of the little mouse called Gus in the Disney Cinderella film.I think he was a mouse lol
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Post by almondandjoyrmygps on Aug 9, 2005 18:55:10 GMT
very cute... and just as fat as my gerbil  |
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Post by kitty on Aug 9, 2005 22:15:24 GMT
He does look like Gus-Gus in Cinderella! Or like the ones in the fat experiments that scientists do ( THEY are RATS for using them).
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Post by Josie on Aug 10, 2005 7:42:45 GMT
I like mice but don't like rats' tails.... |
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Post by Clover on Aug 10, 2005 14:45:37 GMT
Gus Gus, thats his name Cindy ;D
Hubby isn't keen on a rats tail Josie, I really like rats.
Does Eli live on his own Jenna. I don't know very much about mice, do boys get a long together?
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Post by jennawing on Aug 10, 2005 19:08:45 GMT
Yes- Eli lives alone. Boys rarely get on. I have another boy, Bentley- who lives alone, too. I also have 4 sisters that share a cage and then a mom, Louise- that has her 6 daughters living with her. That is a fine example of boys not getting on. Louise had 6 girls and 5boys that survived to fecundity. I seperated the boys out at 4wks old- between six seven weeks old, one boy had systematically starved his 4 brothers to death- no fighting, no warning- he just bullied them to where they couldn't eat. Since they were all the same color, I had no idea until I found two dead and two dying on cage-cleaning day that it was the same mouse eating and drinking the entire time. The surviving boy went to a new home. He is called Adolph now.  By the way- I love rattie tails they are like silky ropes. When my rat boys are on my shoulders, I like to tug on their tail gently, held between my lips- to get them to wrestle a bit or they'll snuffle your ear or give you a kiss. Rats are darlings. |
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Post by Josie on Aug 10, 2005 19:28:41 GMT
You know, I never thought of it like that.....
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Post by caspertheghost on Aug 10, 2005 19:53:20 GMT
He look like a pregnant mouse-lol-but he's a male. He's a big guy- he could win a fight with my pigs- just kidding.
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Post by kitty on Aug 11, 2005 5:57:59 GMT
I love rats and mice too but my husband would REALLY have a heart attack if I had one - he barely tolerates the pigs WITHOUT tails. I don't know what it is about their little tails- sorta like people thinking snakes are wet and slimy when they are really dry and silky and soft. Rats and mice are SMART too.
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Mice are usually very active arn't they, could he be eating a bit too much mouse pellets.?Not quite the same, but our bunny Thumper was on a pellet diet and after a while he slowly began to loose weight. I'm not sure about mice though as they have high energy level don't they? 
