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the_wanlorn) wrote2008-10-29 09:34 pm
the_wanlorn) wrote2008-10-29 09:34 pm
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Mice Pictures
LOOK WELLER, I FINALLY POSTED PICTURES OF MY MICE.
Basically, I'm worried about Murphy's taurine levels. He's not a fan of beef heart, I can't get it regularly anyway, and to be honest, I question feeding a ~raw~ diet and then adding supplements.
But hey, you know what's wicked high in taurine? Fancy mice.
But hey, you know what's wicked expensive since reptiles don't eat that often? Fancy mice.
So clearly, the solution is to breed up a litter and see if breeding them for food for Murphy is less expensive than buying them. And, if it turns out that they're less expensive than 99 cents a pound, hell, they can become his main diet instead of drumsticks.
IN CONCLUSION: I'M A DIRTY MOUSE-MURDERING WHORE. But these two are the breeders, aka pets, aka I doubt I'll ever feed them to my cat.
Igor's a pretty cool mouse. And by "cool" I mean "colored". He looks like delicious butterscotch.
He likes to hang out on the water bottle holder.
And hang upside down from the cover.
No, seriously.
Other assorted pictures of Igor (I'm better at getting the camera to focus on the newspaper than the actual mouse. D: Sorry.)
This is Mia. I think she's pregnant, but I'm not actually sure because wtf how do you tell if a mouse is pregnant?
She's kind of boring so I don't have as many pictures of her.
Murphy pretty much hangs out here all the time. I keep trying to get a picture of him with his face smooshed down on the hardware cloth, but I never quite manage to get the camera in time.
Basically, I'm worried about Murphy's taurine levels. He's not a fan of beef heart, I can't get it regularly anyway, and to be honest, I question feeding a ~raw~ diet and then adding supplements.
But hey, you know what's wicked high in taurine? Fancy mice.
But hey, you know what's wicked expensive since reptiles don't eat that often? Fancy mice.
So clearly, the solution is to breed up a litter and see if breeding them for food for Murphy is less expensive than buying them. And, if it turns out that they're less expensive than 99 cents a pound, hell, they can become his main diet instead of drumsticks.
IN CONCLUSION: I'M A DIRTY MOUSE-MURDERING WHORE. But these two are the breeders, aka pets, aka I doubt I'll ever feed them to my cat.
He likes to hang out on the water bottle holder.
And hang upside down from the cover.
No, seriously.
Other assorted pictures of Igor (I'm better at getting the camera to focus on the newspaper than the actual mouse. D: Sorry.)
This is Mia. I think she's pregnant, but I'm not actually sure because wtf how do you tell if a mouse is pregnant?
She's kind of boring so I don't have as many pictures of her.
Murphy pretty much hangs out here all the time. I keep trying to get a picture of him with his face smooshed down on the hardware cloth, but I never quite manage to get the camera in time.
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*is a sissy*
I'm very interested to find out how this works out, though. Like, is he going to eat them whole or will you wind up SKINNING THEM or something.
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Oh, he is going to eat them whole, because I'll be damned if I'm going to be skinning a damn mouse for him. With rabbits and dogs, they suggest cutting open the belly until the dog figures out it's food without the belly cut. So I guess I'll be doing that if he doesn't get it.
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Also, make sure the mice don't eat the babbies.
Also, how are you going to kill the mice? This is something I learned from stupidpetowners: there is apparently no "nice" way to kill small critters, you should at all times euth everything with chemicals because it's mean otherwise.
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