Diet for a Pet Mouse

"Hi! My name is Sarah, I’m at Petland in Pembroke Pines, Florida tonight and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I’m going to speak with you a little bit about caring for mice. As far as feeding your mouse goes, you want to go with a good high quality lab block diet as they are called. These are processed pellet foods designed specifically for mice and rats. You do not want to feet them a seed diet. Seed diets can lead to obesity, amino suppression, and a huge number of other problems. Mice that we see that are on all seed diets come in with poor skin and coat, bacterial infections from poor nutrition. Just a huge number of problems caused my malnutrition. As far as treats go, your mouse can have a few seeds here and there as a treat, but you want to think of these as a treat only. Seeds should not make up the majority of you mouse’s diet. Once again, they need to be fed a plain lab block diet supplemented with a little bit of healthy fruits and vegetables with a small amount of seed as a treat."