Do mice stink?

Question

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Do pet mice stink? assuming i've cleaned enough

Answer 1

Assuming you keep their cage clean they don't stink at all.
If fact, the very little they do smell like, almost smells like puppies!

I know this because I had a snake, and would feed him mice every week...

But why go with a mouse? Rats are way cooler (had one of those too, plus they don't stink), but neither one lives long, so go with a ferret, they live a lot longer!

I would have to agree that the males are a little more pungent, but nobody gets them anyways because they have unpleasant aesthetic values...

About 99% of any odor they will cause comes from cleaning up their messes; which does get very pungent if left unchecked!

Answer 2

I do know, because I've got pet mice. They certainly do stink! Don't listen to people who say 'well you're obviously not cleaning them enough' - mine have a huge cage which I clean twice a week - completely clean that is, as in change all the bedding and wash EVERYTHING in pet disinfectant, it takes about an hour and a half!
The fact of the matter is, mice pee a LOT (I've heard they 'constantly excrete' but I think that's an exaggeration) and their pee stinks, so there you go. As long as you're cleaning them properly at least weekly you're fine, and I hope you can put up with the stink - mine live in my spare room because of it!!

Oh, and my mice are female by the way, I had four, but now the two I've got left stink just as bad as the two males I had a couple of years ago!

Chalice

Answer 3

I have raised many many mice and this is the deal. If kept clean mice do not stink. What smells is the urine if the cage is left uncleaned. Like any animal (even people) old urine stinks!

If you clean the bedding every 2-3 days and once a week wash out the cage with soap and water, you will have no smell issues whatsoever. I have found that females smell less (if left uncleaned).

Answer 4

Get a extra valuable bedding mutually with carefresh, that is extra absorbant and cedar is terrible for mice. I sparkling my cage 2 or 3 cases a week to manage scent, and also because mice don't like sitting of their personal poop any more effective than you want smelling it. make efficient the cage isn't too small. i visit't allow you to understand precisely how fragrance in an enclosed room could impression a mouse, yet they're so small i could be careful. I never spray some thing in my room, and if I burn incense I turn on the fan and open the door and residing house windows.

Answer 5

We have had pet mice for years. You just need to make sure you have some good stuff in their cage..i found a good kitty litter "Max's Cat and Pet Litter" it's made out of plant materials and is totally biodegradable. It's totally safe to use for mice and it looks like pellets, this actually helps to absorb the urine and the smell. We only have to clean out the cage once a week. So really, if you have a good bedding for the mice and clean the cage on a regular basis, they should not smell that bad.

Answer 6

To the human nose, mice produce unique, strong and even annoying odors, which mainly derive from their urine. The volatile compounds of mouse urine have been studied, and large numbers of the volatiles have been identified. However, there is little published information regarding the identity of the compounds responsible for the unique odor of mouse urine. Lehman-McKeeman et al. (Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 149: 32, 1998) identified 2-sec-butyl-4,5-dihydrothiazole as a characteristic odor compound that eminates from isolated mouse urinary proteins (MUPs). In addition, there is an indication that other compounds extracted from MUPs contribute to mouse urine odor (Novotny et al., Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 2017, 1999).

Answer 7

ive owned gerbils an hamsters an yes they add a certan odor to the room after a while even if you keep t clean, especially mice because they constanyly poop an pee, at least the small white ones do. if you hold a small white mouse you will be always flicking poop off your arm an hopeing it wont pee. but my point is if your not holding them all that peeing an pooping is impossible to keep up with unless you hover over it with a napkin all day lol , so expect some odor

Answer 8

The mice do not have much odor at all; however, their urine is pungent and unpleasant. They use it to mark their territory.

We moved ours outside until they disappeared slowly...one by one...over time...not sure what ever happened to most of them either. A cat got several of the small ones; however, the larger ones must have gnawed a hole in the wooden cage that we kept them in.

Answer 9

My kids had mice and they indeed stink. I'm not sure they cleaned their cage enough though.

Answer 10

Female mice have little odor, but male mice stink very bad.