how do i take care of a wild mouse?

Question

okay so we have a mouse problem in our garage. we live in the middle of the woods so these are just like field mice. one of them found its way into my room and its just a very small baby one. how do i feed it? what do i feed it? what type of habitat should it live in?

Answer 1

Same thing you feed a regular mouse you would get at the pet store. Go the the pet store or library and read up on caring for mice. You can tame a wild mouse just as easy as a domestic one. Habitat can be an old aquarium with cedar shavings or get creative and build your own. Just make sure he has plenty of clean water and fresh air. Keep his habitat clean, and of course, lots of tender loving care. There's lots of information on the internet too. Here's a good site:
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/petsmice.htm

Answer 2

Many years ago, my cat brought home a live young mouse which I got away from her and released. She (the cat) was kept indoors for quite some time that day but as soon as she went out again, she brought back a mouse, very possibly the same one. It was Christmas eve. I put the mouse into an old aquarium with a ventilated cover and some paper towels for bedding, and gave it whatever I had on hand that a mouse would eat (mice are primarily grain eaters) and water in a small measuring cup until I got to a pet store and purchased a better home, mouse food, a water bottle, etc. Being very young, the tiny female mouse had no fear of me but being a wild creature it was hyper-alert and I feared it would startle and fall from my hand, hurting or killing itself, so I never handled it much. Once the mouse was grown, I introduced another female, a baby mouse, from a pet store. They became close companion and so later on I brought in another female, with happy results. They all lived together nicely for years. While we are all warned that mice and rats carry diseases, the truth is that not all of them do. Over the years I have been bitten by a wild and terribly frightened young rat that I was attempting to rescue from drowning in a laundry sink (successfully) and have handled other baby mice yet never become ill from it. Certainly it makes sense to exercise caution and to wash your hands after touching a wild creature but I don't think you will suffer any effects from touching this baby mouse of yours. If it was ill, it wouldn't have survived this long.

Answer 3

chances are it wont survive. I say let it go it knows how to take care of itself. But if you really wanna keep it..buy some rodent food from a pet store and put it in cage with wood shavings and fresh water. Being that its wild..it'll probaly die pretty quick if u keep it

Answer 4

a box made of something that he can't chew through. fill with wood shavings. put a toilet paper roll in for something to play with. feed it bread crumbs, veggie crumbs, and bugs. be sure it has water. release as soon as possible because it may have disease, or insect pests that carry disease. i'm sure you heard it was the fleas on rats that spread around the black plague.

Answer 5

First off, I would keep it outside and feed it things like chocolate and anything sweet. They will eat just about anything, but prefer things that are sweet.

Answer 6

It will feed itself fine outside.

Answer 7

Let it go somewhere a mile or so from your house so it can build a nest and be happy and free before winter comes.

Answer 8

it should live in the outside. Toss it out bro, unless you're lookin for a "Green Mile" kinda thing.

Answer 9

Give it a bit of baby formula from an eyedropper and take it to the vet ASAP

Answer 10

medium sized cage, feed it nuts and almonds, and dont let it outside or out of the cage