Anyone

[Jinxx]

into keeping mice? Do you keep pet mice or show type mice? If you keep show type mice, do you show?

My sister and I recently started the Mid-Atlantic Mouse Association. We're applying for non-profit org status and are a chapter of the FMA (Fancy Mouse Association), they register mice and sanction shows.

If you keep mice at all, what varieties/colors do you keep?

My sister and I own Twisted Tails Mousery and we have a number of varieties and colors we work with. Including, but not limited to, texel, rex, satin, standard, caracul, dove, blue, recessive yellow, burmese, tricolor, splash, black tan and dove tan.

I apologize for the quality of some of these pictures, they were taken with an ancient digital camera that takes terrible indoor pix.

TwsT Maverick - standard splash (he is show typed)




MYLM Aila - standard splash (she is show typed and is Maverick's mother)


Zoinks of TwsT - fuzzy pew (show typed)


These babies have Texel coats. They are more pet type than show but the fancy coats are difficult to get good show type on. These are my sister's special project and at this time is focusing more on coat than type anyway.


This is a litter picture that shows Maverick as a baby (he's the palest one).


One of my tri color babies.



Angelina - standard broken blue


Doreen - a very pregnant dove tan doe.

[Chilly Girl]

Love your beautiful mice! A couple years ago I used to be very into mice and keeping them. But unfortunatley not too many people in my area are very into mice. (Mice shows are unheard of!) So if I ever bred them, I would have to keep the majority of them due to lack of interest on other people's part. However, a lot of people wanted them for their snakes, something I would never allow. I never showed my mice, but I would have loved to if given the chance. I had all colors or mixture of. My specialty was a deep shiny red with red eyes. The vet that I go to loved this color and he had me breed a few just for him.

Love your mice pictures and please keep on posting them! =)

[RZ]

Years ago I raised mice, but I was really more into rats. My first mouse, Massaccio, had a part in my high school's performance of Dracula! Somewhere i have the old program and he is lited as an actor!

Those texels are beautiful - and love blue colored animlas ...where did you say you were? *G*

[Jinxx]

No one right near us is into showing so it is mainly pets. My sister and I had to travel out of state to Maryland and Virginia for our first group. We've since gotten from New Jersey and Ohio as well. Eventually we'd love to import from the UK and other places overseas.

Mouse shows are more established on the West Coast but we hope to change that. My sister and I are working on getting a show set up locally and there is another about 2 hours away in April if I'm remembering right.

Well RZ, our club serves Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. And my sister and I have had a rattery for about 9 years, we're slowly phasing out our rat breeding program though and will be focusing on the mice.

[Jinxx]

Some mouse club links:

American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association:(they have a great information page!)
http://www.afrma.org/

The National Mouse Club (in the UK)
http://www.thenationalmouseclub.co.uk/

The Fancy Mouse Association:
http://www.fancymouseassociation.com/
--there are links to its chapters within it's pages. This club has only recently been started. You can view only some pages as a non-member. If you're into mice though, signing up is free. My sister and I are slowly registering our mice here and our club is one of it's chapters.

[Vitani]

Awwww, they're so kyoooot!

I love mice...Used to have pet ones...I miss 'em


I love the fuzzy wuzzy looking coats on the texels...Adorable!

[Chloe Taylor]

you little micies are soooooooo cute! I love mice and rats. Unfortunatley, my mom s terrified to death. When I was younger however, she let me keep a field mouse as a pet for a few days..... He was so cute <D

[wolfgirl159357]

AWWWW thay are sooo cute i dont really like mice anymore since one bit me and drew blood.

[Queso]

Aww they are so cute! I know pretty much nothing about mice lol. I'm curious, what is the difference between a show quality mouse and a pet quality one?

[Jinxx]

Yes, we think they're sooo cute too.

The quick and simple. Show type mice have a different body (longer and leaner than pet), their ears are much larger and placed differently and their tail set is different and their tails should be longer.

http://afrma.org/rminfo9.htm --This article has good photos showing how different they. Make sure you're looking at the mouse pictures and not the rats.

[Cosmosxx]

OMG Jinxx.....I LOVE them.

I bred rats for about 10 years, and only gave it up because of marriage breakdown. So sad.

Now I only have one.

I always loved that mice came in much cooler colours/variations.

They are all gorgeous.

[Cocodri]

What beautiful babies - thank you for sharing their pix! I wish you the best of success with your organization and showing and breeding plans.

I bred mice for pets for several years and had various fancy metallic satin coated (silver, gold, bronze), longhairs, and broken blacks, blues, and browns. I had a little group of agouti thanks to a house mouse that once broke INTO a cage of females - LOL. I also had some exotics I was given by friends in pet stores - a dormouse, some African spotted mice (they were beautiful). All mine were sold either directly through me or to pet stores that guarenteed they would be pets only. My favorite mouse, Blaze, used to ride on my shoulder all the time. He often went to work with me at the bar - and because of him I sold a lot of babies while at work - LOL.

When I moved from Wichita to Lincoln, NE I left a friend in charge of the mice until I could get settled and come back for them. They put them in their basement. It was a very hot summer and almost all of my mice died. That rather took the heart out of me. I had a few when we lived in Tulsa again about five years ago, but when they passed on I didn't get any more.

I hate to think what the cowboy (my roomie & landlord) would think if I bred MICE. MICE! MIIIICE! You mean those things we keep barncats to kill that eat feed and get in the house and gnaw holes in things and poop in the pots and pans? LOL. (And yes, this includes the Chihuahuan Pocket Mouse which BTW is a VERY pretty wild mouse - even if I am catching it in live traps under the sink and walking it back out into the fields)

*sigh* I miss my meece. Best of luck with yours!

Cocodri

[Queso]

Thanks for the link, I never knew that mice had to have correct conformation! This is probably a stupid question, but how did they come up with a "correct" type? For example, with dogs, horses, ect "correct" conformation is important because of the job the animal was bred to do, but a mouse doesn't really have a job. So are mouse standards purely for looks, or are there other reasons?

[Jinxx]

[Cosmosxx]

Lol Jinxx. I too had a particular rat called Miles, who loved to travel around with me. I had a little bag I would use, and whenever we stopped he's come out for a while, he loved it his whole life.

Such awesome pets.

I love your texel mice, they are unbelievably cute....

*Noms mice*

Lol