Previous Litters

In 2000, my brother got a new female mouse because his old one had died. His new mouse was very cute, sweet and of a nice fawn colour. After a few days of owning and caring for her we noticed something odd. Her stomach just under her ribs and above her hips had grown large very quickly. We brainstormed what it might be. She could be sick (that would be terrible!) or maybe she's pregnant? But how could she be pregnant? She was with female mice at the pet shop*. So we waited a few days. Then, on the 24th of March my brother woke up. And he could hear these odd noises coming from her (Pikachu's) cage. There were lots and lots of tiny, high-pitched squeaks! So my brother took a peep into her nest. And guess what was there? 5 beautiful baby mice! There were 4 males and 1 female. We kept them all and they made great pets. I had two of the males - Active and Splodgy (I was 10 at the time!) and my brother kept the other two males and the female (who stayed with her mum). The males were: Hird and Lloyd and the only female was Millie (she was the runt of the litter). Millie was anything but a runt when she grew up! She became very overweight but she was still so cute! And Lloyd, he lived the longest until he died on Christmas Day 2002 (yes, that's 2 3/4 years!).