About 4 days ago we caught a mouse in a trap, and today we found 2 little fuzzy wandering baby mice in the kitchen. I didn't want to put them outside because they looked so helpless, so I put them in our empty 20 gallon fish tank and put plenty of bedding and empty toilet paper rolls for them to have safety. What should I feed them? I want to keep them safe just long enough until they can care for themselves, then I'll put them back outside.
2006-10-09 15:37:54 · 6 answers · asked by Stayce 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Ask you pet store mice eat about anything of course but, give them a call and ask what they would tell you to feed them. Good luck
2006-10-09 15:40:35 · answer #1 · answered by sammy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are their eyes open? If not, they should be fed kitten milk replacement formula from an eyedropper, preferrably around the clock (usually every 2 hours), and their tummies rubbed with a warm moist cloth afterwards - to stimulate bowel movement. They need to be kept warm, give them a nesting box with lots of toilet tissue in it. If their eyes are open, and they're moving around on their own, then you can try offering them oatmeal flakes, millet, any kind of cereal, sunflower seeds, even dog or cat food. It probably still wouldn't hurt to supplement their diet with KMR being that they're so young. Make sure to have water available at all times, best is to use the small animal water bottle.
It is very hard to hand-rear orphaned mice... The younger they are, the slimmer the chance of success. Feel free to e-mail me if you need more help.
2006-10-10 19:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off, it depends on how old they are since mice are mammals and give milk, but if you found them wandering around your kitchen, then they are probably old enough to fend for themselves.
Mice like things like oats (the kind you feed horses), oatmeal, sunflower seeds (not the baked kind), bird seed, and just about any kind of natural, unsalted, unbaked nut you could think of.
However, a cheep solution would be to go to your local pet store and ask them for a food that you could feed to rats, gerbils, guena pigs, rabbits, and mice.
After caring for them though, I would not suggest letting them go back out into the wild. Being in your care, they haven't had the time to learn about dangers like cats, and they now trust people. That, and they wont have learned how to scavange and find food for themselves.
2006-10-10 03:56:54 · answer #3 · answered by xxtorturedinnocentsxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on how old they are. take a photo of them to your pet store, they can tell u how old they are and advise on feeding etc.
although you would be better off asking advice from a local wildlife or animal welfare charity/society.
as they are still young and as you have handled them, they now have the smell of humans on them and won't be recognised by other mice. as you have and if you continue to handle them they will become tame (it doesn't take very long as they're young), it will be imposible to send them out into the wild, as they won't know how to defend for themselves.
i hate to say it, and yes nature can seem cruel at times but you would have been better off putting them straight outside in a sheltered area, this sort of thing happens all the time in the wild, it's just natures way.
2006-10-09 23:13:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
let the cat take care of them
2006-10-10 17:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by nokhada5 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Put some rat poison in.
You already killed the one that was probably the mother, so kill them.
Feed them to your cat.
2006-10-09 22:48:07 · answer #6 · answered by thanatos_azrael 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋