Keeping Your Mouse Safe Around Other Pets

Video Transcript

" 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. It goes with your mouse interacting with other pets, I definitely would not recommend this. Obviously, cats would be a huge threat to mice, as mice would be a natural prey item for them. Many dogs are just simply too big to interact with mice. Some dogs will obviously be aggressive and try to hurt the mice, other dogs might try to and play with them and simply injure them because the mouse is so small. Other pets in the household like hamsters, guinea pigs, rats could possibly socially interact with mice, but we really generally would not recommend it as there is too much potential for the mouse to be injured. One other concern of having your mouse around other pets it there could be disease organisms that your mouse could pass to other pets or your pets could pass to your mouse. Once again, for the safety of your mouse and other pets in your household, you should not have any interaction time between you mouse and other pets in your household. "