Mus Musculus ~ the common house mouse ~ is said to have originated in Mediterranean Europe and North Africa but has been carried by boats, carts, cars, trains and just about every other available means into just about every part of the inhabited world, where, especially during cold weather and winter months, they scurry around infested storerooms, offices and homes with wild abandon!
Lab mice are usually albino:
The natural colouring, sometimes called agouti (though an agouti is actually a capybara-like rodent from Brazil) is the same dull-brownish colour of most Caucasian people's hair. However the folks from L'Oréal have come up with a trendy range of variations for human and mouse.
Until the hamster arrived on the pet market in the mid 20th century, mice were very common and popular pets and were kept in conditions as cramped and unsuitable as biscuit tins and school desks. Some mice get tame enough to do tricks:
Baby mice are of course "tiny and cute" ~ it's not easy to get pictures of suckling young ~ unless the mother's ANAESTHETIZED as in this shot!
SURFING MICE
An Australian named Shane Willmott taught his pet mouse collection to surf ~ for real ~ at the Queensland seaside. Here goes!
Mice are cute unless you see them scurring across your floor.
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Mice are cute unless you see them scurring across your floor.
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Right, I'm keeping away from the beach if the mice and their longboards are taking it over...
ReplyDeletePoor little things, especially the ones that wiped out. Just as well it was a beach with small waves...they'd be drowned rats otherwises....(smirk).
If a mouse moved into my house I'd have to move out! :0
ReplyDeleteI like mice as long as they don't inhabit my house. I have to admit that the suckling mouse photo was really cute.
ReplyDeleteJANICE: too true!
ReplyDeletePUSSINBOOTS: they look like drowned rats, don't they..?!? Also don't you think they'll get itchy, with all that salt in their coats, poor swines...
AKELAMALU: I once lived with 100s! Baby Itchy Roborovski escaped for 2 or 3 days and I found her under my wardrobe, where I hadn't bothered to look bc I knew mice lived under there... and there she was cavorting with them merrily as Father Christmas on Boxing Day!
SYD: I know... and you can't normally get pictures of mice like that, no matter how tame ...
Hey Gledy, how ya goin?
ReplyDeleteI think I have a family of these in my Amsterdam ceiling. As soon as I see one I will bring in the traps...
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