herptrader
Very Well-Known Member
I was out there tinkering in my garage... as you do. When I do this the rodents talk to me and generally do their thing. It is a blokedom thing. I have a few tubs of mice and a few of rats. I try and look after them as well as I can. My rodents are kept as happy as I can possibly make them until d(inner) day and this it is a quick and painless dispatch as can be organised.
The rodents being grown to size have mouse/rat wheels which tend to go all the time. The mice in particular go at their wheels almost continually. I noticed this evening... while tinkering in my garage.... as you do, that the usual sound of spinning mouse wheel was not a happening thing
Sometimes they mound up the shavings and it does not spin freely but this was not the case this evening.
One of the little mice was dead, caught between the wheel and the support.
Before I untangled him and added to one of the zip lock bags in the freezer I wondered to my self:
a) Was it an accident?
b) Was it suicide?
or
c) Was foul play at hand by his cage mates!!!!!
(His cage mates are all on death row anyway so your voting will not affect the outcome for them.)
The rodents being grown to size have mouse/rat wheels which tend to go all the time. The mice in particular go at their wheels almost continually. I noticed this evening... while tinkering in my garage.... as you do, that the usual sound of spinning mouse wheel was not a happening thing
Sometimes they mound up the shavings and it does not spin freely but this was not the case this evening. One of the little mice was dead, caught between the wheel and the support.
Before I untangled him and added to one of the zip lock bags in the freezer I wondered to my self:
a) Was it an accident?
b) Was it suicide?
or
c) Was foul play at hand by his cage mates!!!!!
(His cage mates are all on death row anyway so your voting will not affect the outcome for them.)
