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Anyone that can help, please do so. I need information on caring for newborn field mice, not even a week old. The parent mice are gone and I have no clue what to give them for food and such. Yes, I've already hunted through several search engines with no luck. Please help if you can. I recommend sending mail to sky_silver_union@yahoo.com

Thanks.

Err... not to be cruel, but.... abandoned field mice? Are you sure you don't just want to let nature take its course? Owls and hawks need to eat, too, you know.

I'd call whatever passes for animal control/wildlife restoration in your area and ask for advice. They may ask you to surrender the mice to a rehabilitation center so the mice will get proper nutrition and won't become habituated to human contact.

Field mice eat snakes. Just put them both in the same cage.

Them Canadian baby field mice is tough, dude.

Sorry, can't really help you much...but when I was in a similar predicament with a couple of baby skunks I just gave them to the people at the local zoo and they took care of them until they could be released or whatever.

Baby anythings are pretty delicate though, so I'd be prepared for the worst if I were you...

Depending on their age, they will likely need to nurse from a bottle..a very small nipple... I'd say chances are slim to none unless you've already began feeding them. Good luck! I hope it works out.

I was told purina kitten chow, soaked in water, feed with an eye dropper... works for baby birds...(the dept of consevation told me this, and the baby bird eventually flew away!!

If you place the baby mice back whee you find them then the parents will return for them....unless they're dead. Wild field mice aren't meant for domestication. If the parents are gone then nature will have to take its course because there isn't anyways to feed them. Sorry to break it to you.

You might also want to be careful. Mice are notorious for carrying disease even in the world today. Make sure you clean yourself real good after handingly them. A friend of mine got Bubonic Plague from handingly mice and even though today the chances of it killing you is very slim it isn't something you're going to want to go through.

Serenity wrote:A friend of mine got Bubonic Plague from handingly mice and even though today the chances of it killing you is very slim it isn't something you're going to want to go through.

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".

west wrote:

Serenity wrote:A friend of mine got Bubonic Plague from handingly mice and even though today the chances of it killing you is very slim it isn't something you're going to want to go through.

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".

Don't believe it if you don't want to. I was just giving a fair warning. Make sure you clean yourself whenever handling wild rodents or their nests.

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bub ... rn-day.htm

Is the Black Death, or plague, still with us today?
We tend to assume that this is not a present day disease, however we are mistaken. The answer to whether the disease is with us today is Yes, but very few. About 10 to 20 people contract the each year in the USA. Our main defence against the disease is hygiene. Our modern sewage systems and Public Health organisations keep this plague to a minimum. Additional sections are available on Bubonic Plague / Black Death in the Elizabethan era and World History. This section concentrates on the disease in the modern day.

***petsmart pet care manager hat donned....***

having edited this dang post 3 times, you all better read it or I will sick the gremlins on you....

first:

baby mice need goats milk. You can get it at most pets stores.

cow milk is hard on the tummies and cat/dog milk is the wrong protien level. Goats milk is as close as you can get to rodent milk.

most pet stores also sell bottles with itty bitty nipples or you could buy an eye dropper or small syringe.

good luck, but mostly, baby field mice that are this young wont make it without momma... kudo's to you for careing about a live animal regardless of its origin or reputation.

next:

Once wild animals, such as very young mice, rabbits or birds are touched by human hands, generally, the parents will reject them. The biggest and most difficult rule to instill on the animal lovers who visit our stores it this:

DONT TOUCH.

why you ask? most of the time, the parent animal is nearby cowering in terror of the human who is hovering over their baby(s) Once the babies are handled by people, they no longer smell the same. Animals go by smell more then any other sense besides maybe hearing. A baby mouse, once touched by, and thus smelling of humans... cannot be the same baby mouse that momma left there to begin with. domesticated animals such as hamsters STILL kill off their very young babies if they feel threatened by humans, or if they are handled too young.

last but not least: Deseases....

ANY animal, domesticated or wild, can carry germs and bacteria. ALWAYS wash your hands with antibacterial soap before and after handling ANY animal. ((this DOES include cats and dogs folks! especially ones that are not yours.)) yes, plagues are still out there, yes, people catch them, but I will be blunt, it takes major contact.. a good bite, that draws blood, or accidental ingestion of fecal matter.

a very few examples of what "domestic" pets can carry...

Salmonella, psitticosis, E-coli, Ringworm, most varieties of parasite.....internal and external.

do I make my point? WASH all the time. And I am NOT one of those people who carry around hand sanitizer gel in my purse, but I cannot stress enough the need to wash after handling any animal.


Ok, I think I am done.. no more edits. lol.

Kristine
that serious human that hides behind pixie.

I don't think the 'don't touch rule' apply to mice. I've cleaned out mice nest before and even after being touched by humans, I have seen the mother come back and grab the babies and run away. I could be wrong but from my experience I haven't seen baby mice abandoned and in fact have seen the mother go out of her way and put herself in danger to get back her young.

Serenity wrote:I don't think the 'don't touch rule' apply to mice. I've cleaned out mice nest before and even after being touched by humans, I have seen the mother come back and grab the babies and run away. I could be wrong but from my experience I haven't seen baby mice abandoned and in fact have seen the mother go out of her way and put herself in danger to get back her young.

I've read in several places that the 'no touching' rule was a myth, actually, though some animals will eat their young if the baby is sick or the mother is severely stressed out...some bizarre way of "protecting" them. You see it more in hamsters and domesticated rodents because they're often stressed from overcrowding or the fact that they're stuck in a cage and can't move their litter to safety when they feel it's threatened.

And Pixie's absolutely right about washing your hands after handling any animal, I can't stress that enough. As soon as possible, too. (People put their hands on their mouth or eyes or nose many, many times throughout the course of a day without even realizing it, and those are all viable ways to get infected with something unpleasant.)

If you touch buterflys you can kill them. FACT!

Oh, regarding animals eating their babies, there's a joke about an inexperience maid that was put to keep an eye on a mother pig that was giving birth. Later they came to check and there was no little piggies so they asked the girl if she'd seen any. And she said, yeah, there's been one running around... From the backside to the mouth and out again.

I don't know about mice but many animals really don't like the smell of humans on their babies. I don't know if they actually would eat them but at least they would abbandon them.

And if you touch a butterly's wings then it can't fly and something will eat it so yeah they will die. But the touch itself doesn't kill it just paralyses.

Once I saw a butterfly on the ground and it was all still and then my bf who's now my ex bf said that look, it's got goo coming out, it must've been hit by a car. And it was really sad to me, I think I started crying. Though I was sad for other things too.

Babbles out.