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!

You're most likely feeding your mouse too much. You should limit the food it eats. Hand feeding your mice is very well if they are willing to accept it from you. Otherwise you should take your fat mouse and put it in a separate cage with less food. You can also check how much nutrition is in the food you are feeding them, of course if you have cheap food your mice are going to be more unhealthy than the ones eating brand name expensive foods. This is no problem if you cant afford it. Just limit it, and keep good eye. A other option is taking your mice to let it run around the room everyday. Hence all of them getting there exercise needed.

put her in a seperate cage, and take the food away at certain times, play with her more..like scoot her around and make her run and stuff, maybe that'll hel[

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