Surprise take-home!

Esmy · 12-01-2014, 02:36 PM

I've done a lot of research and asked a lot of questions about female mice, but I went to the shelter today with the intention of picking up two male Chinese hamsters. The lady helping me really wanted me to take both species and I fell in love with the hamsters and the mice! I don't have pictures of the hamsters yet. I'll made a board for them when they are active and I can get a picture of them.

The hamsters are labeled as 6 months old and are actually about 6 weeks (someone's accidental litter), and the mice are labeled 1 yr but I have no clue how old they are. I think they look young. All of the rodents at the shelter were poorly cared for- the cages did not look like they had been cleaned since the animals moved in. That was partly my reasoning for getting both as well as adoring them already.

Anyway, here are my girls. I asked a friend if her Granddaughters would like to name them, so the first one (all white) is named Coconut. She is shy and small. The other does not have a name yet, but is dominant and squeaks when touched. lol

Peanut84 · 12-01-2014, 02:44 PM

How cute! Glad you rescued them!

HollyHamster · 12-01-2014, 02:46 PM

The white mousie girl is known as a Red Eyed White, in the mouse keeping world. She's the same color as my Algernon was. He was rescued from the neighbor's cat's mouth one day by my mother working outside in the yard.

I don't know what the other one's coloration is called. Maybe a piebald? Anyways, congrats on taking them in and giving them a proper home.

Pygmypuff · 12-01-2014, 02:49 PM

Oh my goodness, they are so so adorable! Wow!

Esmy · 12-01-2014, 02:54 PM

Thanks Holly! So nobody calls them Albino? lol She's really cute and so tiny; a runt I assume. I guess when I said I did a lot of research, color identification was not involved. lol I just meant behavior and care. I only know of the tri-color by name.

Thanks Pygmy!

dave123791 · 12-01-2014, 02:56 PM

Aww they are so cute

I always thought their called Albino. I must be wrong then. Hmmmm....

Esmy · 12-01-2014, 02:57 PM

Thanks Dave! Yeah, me too. I really didn't think of them having color names like hamsters, but I guess if I was a breeder, it would be important. lol

HollyHamster · 12-01-2014, 03:03 PM

Esmy, I looked at this site, Varieties of Mice, and realized that it's a PEW (Pink Eyed White) not a REW (Red Eyed White). The one with the black markings is definitely a piebald though.

dave123791 · 12-01-2014, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Esmy

Thanks Dave! Yeah, me too. I really didn't think of them having color names like hamsters, but I guess if I was a breeder, it would be important. lol

I know this question sounds very idiotic but are mice active during the night like hamsters?? I'm pretty sure they are but just wanted to ask someone that has mice.

Skeever · 12-01-2014, 03:07 PM

Still mulling over mice....hmnn.....hmnnn....must make up for the time in the bad petshop when a mouse escaped its cage to come into my hands, I didn't rescue him....

Sometimes I wake up screaming.

Well, not really, but.....if I see another mousey??? Has anyone seen the videos from the CriiterCreek something or other, about the ongoing social dramas of the owners mice? Is it a good description of raising a mini colony of mice? Is it being done right? Lots of introducing and stuff and fights and makeups and .....If that's how it is raising more than one, I can totally understand why more than one is fascinating and better for the mice. They're quite social and complicated wee things