I think that sometimes people focus on the "cheap" dogfoods, as they are not good for dogs, but are great for mice. I have tried a huge variety of dogfoods, and rat foods and mice foods and focus now on the one dogfood the mice like more than any others. I noticed that they do drink more water, perhaps to process the protien, but they breed like crazy when on that dog food and they don't get fat (unless genetically predisposed to fat). Since it WORKS, I go with it. The only time I used rodent blocks.... they ALL ate their babies (about 250 mouse babies, gone in 36 hours) and then they started to die. I threw away the expensive rodent chow, moved back to my preferred brand of dog food, and they recuperated and started to breed again.
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