Have you bought the mice already? If not be wary of buying them at a pet store. It's common for rodents sold in pet stores to be pregnant. They might also be ill.
Try a local shelter and see if you can rescue a mouse before trying to pet store.
If you have caught a wild mouse, chances are it will never become tame. I've tried this in the past, because I didn't want to kill it, and it really didn't work out. I ended up releasing it into a forest.
Buy a hamster cage preferably with wires instead of plastic. Avoid the cages with mesh bottoms as it is very uncomfortable for animals to stand on and can actually cause injury.
Get a wheel, a salt toy (which they never use but it's good to have it there just in case), specially formulated mouse food, a water bowl or a water bottle (I've never found a water bottle that doesn't drip) and some bedding. Don't use pine or ceder as it is not safe for any small animal.
Give the mouse fresh veggies and fruit once every few days but watch for diarrhea.
IMPORTANT - Do not let pregnant women around the mouse or any other rodent including hamsters and guinea pigs. Pregnant women can contract a potentially serious disease from small animals called Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus.What things do I need to buy to in order to have 2 mice?
The usual,
Cage – including a house, water bottle, food bowl, sawdust, bedding (looks like cotton wool or shredded paper)
Food – including daily food and treats (these could be the stick that hand from the roof, small mouse friendly choc drops etc)
Cleaning bits – cage disinfectant, sponge and towel 9to dry cage after cleaning)
Toy, exercise ball (this is a small round ball for them to run about in) wooden chews, tunnels etc
You can normally buy a starter kit that has most of this and a book for added info, that way you can just top up when things run down.
Oh when buying the mice make sure you don’t get a mixed pair as they will breed and regularly so 2 will soon become 20!What things do I need to buy to in order to have 2 mice?
I would buy a small wire cage, a big bag of paper bedding for the bottom, a wheel (not a wire one, that will hurt their little feets), a sleeping thingie (small enough to be cozy, big enough for two) and maybe a toy of some kind for them to climb on.
I'd get a food bowl, some gnawing bites, and a water dripper. As for food, I'd get pellets for all the time, and some seeds for special treats. The pellets have all the nutrition the mice will need, but the seeds are yummier!
Oh, and keep the cardboard box the pet store sends them home in: it's handy to have a place to put them when you clean their cage. Good luck!
You need the terrarium that they'll be living in, a non-wire wheel for excercise (their feet get caught in the wire ones), a waterbottle, food dish, cedar shavings, and food, of course! Make sure to do your homework on mice before you get them. They are extremely dirty pets-like birds, they don't really look particularly messy, but trust me-they are. You have to change shavings often-especially if they climb the wheel, chew the edges of the tank, cause the waterbottle to not hold up, soak the shavings, and reek of ammonia for a day and a half. Haha... Believe it or not, mice are a bigger responsibility than they look like.
A cage. Get the biggest and best you can - I personally wouldn't dream of keeping a pair of mice in a 10 gal tank! If you can find a normal plastic and wire cage with the bars close enough together these are great as mice love to climb.
A house for them to sleep in. This can be a store bought one of any type, or an empty cardboard box, or cermaic plant pot etc.
A running wheel. Get one of the plastic ones that is solid. The ones with open metal bars can trap their feet and tails and cause serious injury.
A water bottle (bowls are too messy, easily spilled etc)
Safe bedding and nesting material.
Bedding (i.e. the stuff on the floor of the cage should be aspen or carefresh. Do not use pine or cedar shavings as these can cause respiratory and liver disease)
Nesting material (the stuff they sleep in) should be something like paper wool (aka ';safe bedding';). The cotton woold type stuff is not so good.
Decent quality mouse food (not hamster food!)
This is the bare minimum that you need - but if you get a big enough cage you can add all sorts of toys and furniture, eg store bought toys, cardboard boxes and tubes, different places to hide and sleep etc. Mice are really industrious, active little animals - they love having lots to do. Cardboard and wooden toys are great as the mice can gnaw on them - and the cardboard they may shred to make more nesting material.
A food bowl is optional. Most people use them - I choose not to for mice. They are a foraging species, so I always ';scatter fed'; them - mixing the food into the bedding, hiding it in toys etc. This way they have to find it, which keeps them occupied and stops them getting bored.
Finally make sure you get 2 mice of the same sex - otherwise you could end up with 12 pups every 3 weeks! Check out some books and websites on how to sex mice, so you can double check them yourself before taking them home.
you don't really need to buy much allot of it you would already have around the house. things like the cardboard tube from a toilet roll is perfect for them to play in, old newspaper's can be riped up and used for padding.
so all you really need is a class cage they cant get out of (with breathing holes lol) and food.
A cage or container to keep them in which is large enough for two mice.
Two mice.
Mouse food
Water bottle %26amp; food container
Some form of bedding
Cage cleaning equipment (sponge, disinfectant etc...)
Mouse toys, to keep your mice entertained that they can gnaw on or do whatever mice do...
a cage, prefurably plastic with holes up the top, mice can squeeze through wire ones. food/water container water lyk one of those bottle things, mouse food, bedding, like cardboard kitty litter or shredded paper, a lil house so they can sleep. and stuff for them to play with like ladders, spinny wheel thingy, tunnels ect
oh, and summet for them to chew on. some ppl use wood, but u can actually by stuff that wont harm them incase they get some splinters
oh yea,,....you need the 2 mice aswell
-Food
-bedding (NOT cedar or pine)
-food bowl (you could probably find something useable around the house)
-Water bottle
-cage
Thats it! I have two females myself and they are extremely low maintenance. I strongly recommend getting two girls because boy and boy = fighting, girl and boy =LOTS of babies, and just one can die of depression/ loneliness. They are really fun pets and I hope you enjoy them!
I had a mouse. You aren't supposed to only have one, they like company.
My mouse liked the rotastak cage with all the tubes and stuff. Likes toilet rolls. He was very tame and liked being stroked. It took him ages how to use his wheel though. About a month till he figured out what it did and how to use it!
A 10 gallon tank is the perfect cage for 2 mice, you also need some sort of house, like an igloo or something, and a food bowl, a water bottle, bedding, and some wood things/sticks to chew on.
cage-20$
bedding-4$
hamster wheel-included in cage
two mice-10-20$
water dish or container-included in cage
little bit of cotton-1$
thats all,happy mice buying!
If you leave your house really dirty, and just throw garbage all over the place, you should be able to have at least 2 mice. Most people are able to accomplish this with much much less.
you need:
•10 gallon tank
•aspen bedding
•food
•MICE
•wheel
•water bottle
•chew toys
little cage, mice food pine wood chips, newspaper, old tissue boxes, rolls from paper towels,
I think that you should get some food and set up the old fashion
One box of Decon
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