HELP!!! baby mouse help!?

Question

Me and my mom found a baby orphaned mouse on our basement floor! I really don't want him to die and I need help on how to take care of him. Any advice?

okay, does the milk I give him have to have anything special in it? I've read baby formula might work, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

ok...you will need an eye dropper and kitten formula...if you dont have kitten formula you can mix powdered milk and an egg yolk and a bit of white corn syrup...warm it til it is luke warm (u cant feel a drop of liquid on the inside of your wrist) fill eye dropper and hold to babys mouth but dont squeeze dropper, let baby drink on his own. as dropper empties, u can squeeze dropper just enough to keep a tiny bubble of milk at the tip. keep baby warm in small box, nestled in soft cloth...feed every hour... to potty, take tissue and wet with warm water and gently rub potty area until baby pees and poops. here is a link i just found that should help you....good luck

http://mouseranch.com/FYI/orphans.shtml
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2007-07,GGLG:en&q=raising+orphaned+mice

Answer 2

If it is real young...like with out hair..its best to go down in the basement and find the nest of babies and put it back. It was probably nursing and when the mother decided to leave the nest it just hung on to the nipple and finally let loose there on the basement floor. Mice usually move thei babies.Start looking in the bottom of boxes, behind them, in dressar drawers if there are any down there. ,looke all over on the floor. Don't be doing it hard , but quiet and easy.....you don't want mother mouse to desert.

Answer 3

bypass to the close by vet or petstore and purchase the milk powder that they use to feed kittens that have misplaced thier mom. combination up a very small little bit of this and then dip the top of a skinny fabric into it till it drips milk and then circulate the top to the mouses mouth and enable the milk drip into the mouth. at last the child will initiate nursing on the fabric. in case you intend to launch this animal lower back into the wild you're able to make advantageous actual touch is amazingly minimum. Now nonetheless no count if that's a very youthful mouse it won't know the thank you to bypass to the bathing room. you will prefer a heat, moist fabric and you will could use the fabric to stroke the mouses hind end to stimulate defication.

Answer 4

I had 2 white mice before, and they had 12 babies!!!

You sorta need to give him/her milk... because that's all they can eat until they're like a couple of weeks old. They they will start to eat solid food.

Answer 5

get a cage, a 10 gal. aqauarium should work best. also maybe some carfresh unscented bedding, wood blocks to chew on, toys, and mouse formula/food, also a hanging water bottle.

go to the pet store, and see what else they recommend, and maybe a care guide on mice.

good luck!!

Answer 6

your poor tender hearts!

I've never heard of milk replacer formula for mice, but that doesn't mean there is not any.

Do you know they SELL baby mice (yep, pinkies) for snake food at pet stores?

I'm sorry, but this may be the nature of things. If he's very young, he won't stand much of a chance.

Answer 7

go and get kitten formaula and an eye dropper and make sure you keep it warm. you'll have to feed it quite often since they are so small. rub the baby to keep it warm and rub it after feeding to make the bowel empty.

Answer 8

this is a wild untamed mouse and you can not keep him as a pet because he could have diseases that can be transferred to people. if you do not want to kill him then buy a mouse trap that mearly traps the animal, then let him go in a wooded area

Answer 9

don't bother it will die anyway.......... next doors cat will munch it