In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate
Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish
I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried
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one of the interesting thing about keeping mice as pets is that for the price of a moderately nice car I could custom order a litter of mice with a doubled lifespan, enhanced strength, enhanced problem solving abilities, docile temperament, and resistance to numerous diseases. also they could glow in the dark if I wanted. we know so much about the mouse genome and can do so many interesting things with it.
and yet instead i have these two randomly generated little gremlins
who i love
science has found a couple ways to "enhance" mice and COUNTLESS ways to make them worse. yours are already perfect tbh.
it is unfortunate for even the pet mouse population because people sometimes adopt surplus lab mice, which is very sweet until they let them breed with their pet mice and now there are all kinds of weird tumor genes in the pet mouse gene pool
Is there any sort of discussion on neutering pet mice in the hobby? I feel like itd be hard to pull off without causing complications
Matthias is neutered! That's why he can share a cage with Cornflower without making 1000 additional mice. He hasn't had any complications from it.
However he was kind of an exceptional case (the animal shelter had a huge surrender of mice, and intact male mice have to be housed solo--they'll breed with females and fight with other males--so it's harder to manage large numbers of them). Neutering mice is not commonly done, because it is more difficult and risky than the same procedure on larger animals, and it's harder to find a veterinarian who will do it.
I don't know the details 100% but my understanding was that it was an animal hoarding situation - someone tried breeding pet mice and it just got completely out of hand and they had 500 (literally) of them by the time they finally reached out for help.
The community turned out amazingly for the mice and 100% of them were adopted! I don't know anything about the human but I hope they're getting support.
Aw man is that why mice have so many tumor problems? :(
