Share your unusual rodents

[MindsEyeExotics]

I bought this mouse at the atlanta repticon and he is awesome looking to me..can't get a great pic cause he is quick, but he is half hairless and half..longhair? It looks like he's wearing frizzy pants I'm definitely keeping this guy as a pet. I want to see any weird looking rodents anyone else has/had

 

[Zombiegirl]

that is the strangest mouse I've ever seen!! Does he have a name?? (I would call him Gollum lol)...no rodents here to share though...aside from the ones in the freezer lol.

 

[MotleyMedusa7]

he used to be a normal mouse,then mousey patterned baldness crept up



& yeah,that is def. the most unusual mouse I've seen lol

 

[Shiari]

He might be allergic to the bedding. Carol had some 'hairless' hamsters that, when the bedding was changed, grew all their hair in.

 

[MindsEyeExotics]

hmm that might be, never thought of that..but he was in with all hairless mice, so I assumed it's just some weird genetic thing..but usually the would be hairless or het, not both..and I don't think it's the "double rex" thing like in rats that have patchy hair..he is on shredded newspaper right now so maybe if it's an allergy he will start growing hair back and we will know he's not a mouse from a doctor suess book lol

 

[chag67]

Looks like he left you a present in your hand.

 

[Carpe Serpentis]

Looks like multiple presents in your hand. Gollum is the perfect name for this one.

 

[MindsEyeExotics]

haha Gollum it is then..and yes he did, but at this point I was super grossed out by mouse poop I would be in trouble with all the feeders I deal with haha

 

[diamondlil]

That's the cutest mouse I ever saw! We had an african striped grass mouse (AKA Zebra mouse) as a pet, she was brown and cream stripes from nose to tail, so we called her humbug.

 

[Wyldrose]

I bet you anything he is a hairless. They are born normal furred like a regular mouse and loose all the fur, it usually starts at the head and works it way back.
It is a recessive trait.
Here's one of mine:
Jack Frost is a Black eyed white, It's very hard to produce them, it is a combo of a recessive spotting gene(pied) and a dominant spotting gene(varigated) both over lap and remove all the color.

 

[Buzzard]

Do me a favor and check its teeth. If it has all 4 teeth (upper and lower) then I would say it is a hairless mouse that hasn't lost all of its hair. If it missing a tooth or two then I would say it is a genetic fault due to the lack of food it is getting....

I do like Gollum as a name though.... good call. Really different creature

Buzz

 

[Weda737]

I have a black eyed white... it only has one little black spot on it's butt, does that count? My silver and tan mysteriously died we found it under the food bowl still have the black and tan though. I believe we have a chocolate baby as well.

 

[Dale]

I want to make one! what exactly is the varigated gene? I'm currently keeping 2 color variants of pied.

Here's one of mine:
Jack Frost is a Black eyed white, It's very hard to produce them, it is a combo of a recessive spotting gene(pied) and a dominant spotting gene(varigated) both over lap and remove all the color.

 

[Wyldrose]

Varigated mice look like you splashed bleach on a regular mouse, the spots have jagged edges and have head spots/skunk stripes. Varigated is a dominate trait, and a double varigated gene is lethal, the pups usually die after a few days.
Here is a varigated mouse:

A pied mouse looks white with spots, the edges of the spots should be nice and smooth.
Pied is recessive. Pied can leave het markers, like pink toes and white tail tips.
Here is a pied mouse:

In the 7 years that I have bred mice this is my first Black eyed white He isn't anything super cool like the OP's mouse but the fact that it's so hard to make them without any color makes him special to me. He is one of my breeder bucks now and will stay as a pet if I don't need him for breeding.

 

[MindsEyeExotics]

Your blackeyed white boy is neat, I like rare things I bet mine is just hairless (he does have all his teeth) I don't have experience with hairless mice and just assumed they would be born all hairless and stay that way, not lose the fur..I have hairless rats(and rex and the double rex ones lose fur, so maybe there is a similar rexing gene in mice?) and they are born all hairless..as are sphynx kittens, crested puppies, and skinny pigs (but I guess 'Peterbald' kittens are born furred and lose it, so my theory is useless lol) I'm super into hairless/scaleless animals (I hope to get a silkie bearded dragon soon) My hairless animal ownership has included: Sphynx cats, Chinese crested dogs, hairless mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, naked neck and showgirl chickens, and scaleless rat snakes. I love anything weird

 

[Buzzard]

I would say most of these are not unusual but here is a few of my more unusual mice.

Silky brindle and white

Regular Brindle and white

Half / half...lol

This is how they end up after maturing

one of many colonies...

 

[hypnoctopus]

I love those cow-print ones! Aw man, now I want some pet rodents!

 

[Charlotte]

Aw man, now I want some pet rodents!

I know, right?! Stop it guys!! I already get sad enough feeding Loki the prettier mice.

 

[Dale]

OK, confused on this guy then, just picked him up yesterday. Apologies for the bad pic, but little man was very jumpy when I got him home. At first glance, I just thought he was a spotty brown pied, but then i looked more closely at the edges of his his color and they aren't as clean as my other 2 pieds. Possible varigated.. or just a sloppy pied?

 

[Wyldrose]

He looks pied to me, is his head white with spots? Thats usually the best way to tell when they have patchy spots.

Buzzard I love the brindles, I have a bunch too. Do yours get obese too, this batch I have are not as bad as previous brindles. Your yellow pied is probley an unmarked brindle, it has the yellow and no stripes. They can produce some really nice marked brindles. I love them when they look like little tigers