Altogether there're the ones I've posted about before... And a lot of new mice you won't have seen before (unless you're on micearenice), so I'm giving everyones background and a pic per mouse rather than just giving a background for the new ones.
I'll explain how/why we got them all as I go, but feel free to ignore that and just see the pics if you want to
Monster and Spud were the first two we got, advertised as "free to a good home" when we were looking to get mice. I fell for them and didn't want them to end up as snake food.
Monster
Spud
Bark and Nugget were next, they needed rehoming after someone had rescued them from a bad situation (that we were never told about). Both started very skittish and Nugget later kindly gave us a crash course in why a single young mouse in a group can be a bad thing lol
Bark
Nugget
Then (the same day as Bark and Nugget) we also collected Trick and Treat, who were also advertised as needing a home.
Trick
Treat
After a period of quarantine we introduced the three pairs and they lived fairly happily together... Except for Nugget (the youngest) occasionally frustrating the others when she wanted to play and they didn't. In the end we decided that was our cue to find her some friends to play with, so we got Duskmouse, Poppyseed and Stitch from a local pet shop who we know breed their own animals (we even saw Mum while we were there).
Duskmouse
Poppyseed
Stitch
After another quarantine period we introduced the new three to the existing six and we had a big happy group of girls. Nugget had new younger friends to play with and the older mice could play when they wanted and not play when they didn't (without getting squeaked at for it).
The girls were all really happy together, but unfortunately in November we had subacute pneumonia go around the group. We don't know how it got in, but we lost Bark, then Spud with no symptoms shown at all so we thought it was natural causes (Bark had some older mouse traits and Spud was overweight). Then Poppyseed died unexpectedly a short while later and off we went to the vets. Nugget started showing signs of a resp problem the morning after we found Poppy - right in time for the vet visit. We got antibiotics, an autopsy and a diagnosis. Poppy's death allowed us to treat and save the remaining six. We took a lot of precautions with the mice for the next few months, we wouldn't let a new rodent into the flat until February and we're fairly sure everyone was completely healthy again by the end of December lol
Unfortunately we've also now lost Trick to suspected old age (she was being treated for suspected arthritus when she passed).
That left us on five girls and with suspicions that at least two (Monster and Treat) are relatively old now. Treat was miserable without her sister so we began to look for ways to distract her and decided it was time to consider more mice. And thats quite possibly where it all went er... different