Saving the mouse

Okay, we had this problem with our little mouse. She got these humongous sores on her back and we didn't know what to do. She was in the cage alone so it wasn't another mouse chewing on her and it didn't look like it was in a place where she could chew on it herself. After much searching on the web, from some places looking for donations for advice, I finally found an ancient FAQ which named the culprit: FOOD INTOLERANCE.

We were shopping for mouse food and were at a store that had none. We saw "hamster food" and it looked like the kind of stuff you'd feed a mouse, so we bought it. The other two mice are doing fine on it.

So we started feeding her a mix of oats, rice, alphabet spaghetti, and bacos. She is healing just fine. We also squirted her with band-aid brand disinfectant to keep her from getting infected.


Eating the culprit hamster food


Nasty sores


10 days later, new food, healing fine.