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Things to Consider When Keeping Mice as Pets
Where to Get a Pet Mouse
What to Look for When Choosing a Pet Mouse
Finding a Veterinarian for Your Pet Mouse
Choosing a Cage for Your Pet Mouse
Setting Up a Cage For Your Pet Mouse
Setting Up Bedding in Your Pet Mouse Cage
Cleaning Your Pet Mouse Cage
Diet for a Pet Mouse
Feeding Your Pet Mouse
Water for Your Pet Mouse
Common Mouse Diseases for Pet Mice
Reasons to Avoid Breeding Your Pet Mouse
Handling & Holding Your Pet Mouse
Supervising Your Children with Your Pet Mouse
Keeping Your Mouse Safe Around Other Pets
Training Your Pet Mouse
Transporting a Pet Mouse
Summary: Learn dietary tips to keep your mouse healthy including lab blocks, pellets, seed diets, and mice treats in this free animal care video clip.
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" 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. "
eHow Article: Diet for a Pet Mouse
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animalarkgirl said
on 8/2/2008 A good snack to mix up for your mouse, which is what I use for my mouse and my rat, is in a sandwhich bag, you mix together, a normal handful of LOW PROTEIN dog food, it MUST be low protein, because high protein causes muscle damage and deformity and it causes their fur to fall off. You take a small handful of any kind of cat food kibbles, I suggest Purina or Iams for both of these ingredients, or if you can find a low protein All natural dog food (senior food is usually low enough protein) You can use that too. Then you mix a large handfuls of both vitamin enriched whole grain cheerios and vitamin enriched wheat bran (crush the wheat bran a little bit because they are pretty big) (wheat bran is raisin bran without the raisins) add a small handful of black sunflower seeds (wild bird food) or plain wild bird food, add a small handfull of rabbit pellets. Mix this up very very well. Give one teaspoon 2x a week for mice or 1 tablespoon 3 x weekly for rats. they absolutely love this snack, it is like mousey (or ratty) trail mix. Do not get me wrong, this is NOT a daily diet and should not be treated as such, I am not advertising it as this, it is a snack only and should be used sparingly.