Question for people that have worked or owned mice!?
Okay so I have 3 mice all girls 2 of them were born on March 31...and I have a COMPLETELY black mouse (FEMALE!) She is SO fat she is about as big as my hand! She isn't a rat but she is a mouse and she only about 8 or 9 months old I have never had a mouse like this! She has almost always been this way! She doesn't exercise at all well...maybe about 3 minutes a day!
So my question is why is she this way! And what can I do to have her loose weight? SHE IS NOT PREGNANT! And I have a wheel in her cage but she only used it for like 3 minutes a day! She hates to run around! So my question is WHy, WHy Why!
answer: Its kinda like how people get fat but they eat normal and exercise, they have hypo-thyroid problem witch pretty much means they don't beak-down food as fast or well and normal mice do and is stored in its body and fat. Its nothing to be worried about what i was told in school is cut down her food by half and if you don't see in improvement then cut that in half its not mean its just giving her the amount of food she needs for her condition
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Vet Tech school
Some mice are genetically predisposed to obesity. The best way to exercise her is to handle her. Let her crawl up and down your arms and over your hands. Do this a couple of times a day for maybe ten minutes or so. pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com
It's also possible that she has a tumor. If this is the case it should become pretty obvious in the next few weeks or months. There won't be much you can do.
i used to breed RATS but they are verysimilarr... i used to come across similar problems often...it is called a rececsive gene...that means that it was a trait that never showed up in the parents but came from erlier generations...so if one of that mouse's grandparents or great grandparents were larger it could be a rececsive gene at work!
I'm not sure, but I used to have two mice that were obese too! They lived as long as any other mice and one of them would actually exercise on the weel a bit but it never helped. It wasn't as if they were eating 24/7 either...
