Mice

The habitat of a House Mouse is in a cage, with a water bottle, a food dish, cotton for a nest, and sawdust or wood chips on the floor of the cage. The House Mouse was raised in captivity. Our classroom habitat is the same as it's normal habitat, but it also has a wheel for exercise. For food in the classroom, we feed it dog food and birdseed. In captivity it will also eat foods such as vegetables, hay, oats, bread soaked in water or milk, roaches, grasshoppers, and crickets. We feed 1 teaspoon per mouse, per day. If the mouse was loose in the wild, probably an owl, snake, house cat, etc., would eat it.
The life span of a mouse is about one and a half years. They can live alone, or in groups. Female mice can produce young 60 days after birth, eight young at a time, and fifteen litters a year. That could mean 120 mice!
Some interesting information is that if you find a Waltzing Mouse at the pet store, which is uncommon, they will run on their hind legs in circles because of a specific kind of brain defect. You should never put a wild mouse with a captivated mouse because of disease. If the mouse is ever sick, you must destroy it. If it has a cold, you should put it in a warmer place and give them two drops of sweet Red Wine for energy. I hope you have found this information as interesting as I have.

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