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Mice can change colour

Toshiro

Toshiro

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One of my little mice has -kinda- changed colour.
It's quite cute actually.

This is a picture of Lif on 08.july.2008

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But recently she developed cow.spots :)
The spots suddenly were there. It's like she got them over night.
 

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She's a little chubbles, isn't she?? In the first pic, her nose looks dark. I'm not surprised she developed that coloration.
 
I think some mice can be himalayan colored....it's the same as my rabbit (actually a breed as well in rabbits). Anyway, the color is temperature sensitive and colder=browner points. My guy's colors go through slight variation everytime he molts, but not as drastically as they did when he was young.
 
:O She's adorable! That's intriguing she suddenly developed those spots. Maybe she's been getting into some ink somewhere and she just doesn't want to admit it. ;)
 
What's her day job?
I get spots like that at work sometimes, mostly when I work on the trucks.
 
The person who mentioned Himalayan was close - that's a Siamese mouse, the colour is temperature-dependant as described. Ideally for show purposes the shading would be even with no dark spots, but they very rarely look like that :)

I keep mainly Burmese and Himalayan rats which are temperature dependant in the same way, and their colour develops in the same way as the Siamese mice. They are self coloured when they get their first fur, and then as they moult and grow, they end up with their body colour paling as the points grow darker. They can look completely different overnight!
 
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