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Cute Story

JTGoff69

JTGoff69

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As some of you know I work at PetSmart. (Soon to be a manager Jazz, LOL)
Well, PetSmart stores only carry either male or female small animals to avoid reproduction. Our store carries males. Once a month we have to count all of our live animals. (Fish too, imagine that nightmare! LOL)
So tonight, I'm counting our small animals, and get to the fancy mouse cage. I start counting, and this one really pretty, rotund, grey mouse rushes around and under the aspen. I get it to unbury itself only to say "Houston, we have a problem!" This mouse is very obviously so pregnant it's ready to bust. Apparently our vendors have had problems sexing their mice, and we've not noticed it either since they've mostly been buried in the aspen.
Anyway, I've removed her from the enclosure and set her up in her own private condo, but before I did it, I brought her to my store director for a laugh and asked him "What might be wrong with this mouse?" His answer was immediately, "Well, either that's a tumor, or the other mice in the habitat are patting each other on the backs and giving each other high fives!" ROFLMAO
I would have loved to adopt her, but have no plans on breeding mice, and as you all know 1 pregnant mouse turns into 5, or 6 mice and then you have 50 or 60 mice in short order.
I just thought it was so cute to find a pregnant mouse in what was supposed to be a pile of nothing but males. How did they miss that sexing??? LOL :shrugs:
 
JTGoff69 said:
I brought her to my store director for a laugh and asked him "What might be wrong with this mouse?" His answer was immediately, "Well, either that's a tumor, or the other mice in the habitat are patting each other on the backs and giving each other high fives!"
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:grin01: awesome responce.

The scamps around where I used to live "only" has females as well. Once I said to one of the employees "I'd like that male mouse right there, and one of the females". He told me quite strongly that the store only supplied females. I told him to take a closer look at his mice.
Seems like miss sexing a male as a female is a bit harder to do than missexing a female for a male. :rolleyes:
 
This doesn't surprise me at all. I bought my three breeder mice from 2 seperate petstores. A Petco and a local chain. The brown mouse who is female, was bought as a male. She was in with the males. The other two were supposed to be 2 females, but one was male and the other was female. So they were all screwed up, but in the end I got 1:2 anyway:)
 
The place I got my 2 females for my feeder project keeps all the mice in one cage and lets them breed at will. I don't agree with that practice but the woman say s that it means that the mice for sale are self sustaining.
 
When I buy mice, I always sex them myself. Because most but not all have no idea how to tell the difference between male and female mice.
 
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