Mice - Blog Posts
Mice and cheese 🐭 🧀
Mice, rats, and bats…
I really REALLY like these ladies and gentlemen! This comic series is amazing! Please check out this comic series by @bajingo and @suzie-guru ! The characters are from @welcome-to-ratterrock If you want to read some rodent content, check it out!❤️🐀🐭🐁
Capybara 5-1-23
It’s taken me an embarrassingly long time to figure out using textured brushes is important- this lil round man was good practice
Caught some strange guys over the weekend! This is a deer mouse. PSA!!! Be very careful handling some little guys because there may be possibilities of them carrying hantavirus!
Moss’s guide to catching a little guy (safely and without traps):
1. Spot a guy, probably running around in a little field or perhaps in an underbrush.
2. Slowly and quietly get as close to the guy as possible.
3. Lunge for the guy like a volleyball player going for an out of bounds ball.
4. Lightly and gently (very important!) flatten the guy with the palm of your hand against the ground.
5. Grab the scruff, or the loose skin on their back of their neck, gently and firmly with two or three fingers.
6. Take a picture with the guy, then place him back on the ground.
To all wondering, scruffing is the safest way to hold a rodent for both you and them! It’s the technique often used by researchers!
I love shrews because they’re such strange little guys. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate and some species can even be toxic. Anyway, give it up for these weird little guys!
Also, shoutout to anyone else that loves rodents and other strange little guys. Let’s be friends.
Don’t know why I didn’t post this sooner, but whatever.
So maybe about two mouths or so ago, I got a Ball Python. His name is Ouraboros taken from Greek as a serpent eating its own tail.
Look at this idiot, the mouse is right there yet he’s paying it no mind.
And yes I know it would be best to feed him a rat instead of mice, however the people that owned him prior had fed him three live mice, I got him onto frozen/thawed and gave him some time to get used to it. The next meal will consist of a rat.
