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> You can buy a mouse as a pet at a store.  Anything wrong with 
> capturing a house-mouse and using it as a pet?    Christopher -- To 
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c,

When we lived in Brooklyn we had a house mouse we named Retread. He had 
been living in the wall. I had set out a glue trap and caught him. Then 
there is the question of what to do with the mouse struggling on the 
glue trap. Decided human process was to place glue trap and mouse under 
front wheel of truck. Then found I did not have the heart to follow 
through. Besides, was not sure about legal issues of driving with glue 
trap stuck to tires.

We put him in an aquarium w/ food & water. He looked lonely so I bought 
a white mouse. Have you ever sexed a mouse? Me neither. Next thing we 
knew we had a whole lot of mulatto mice. It went on for quite a few 
years with our mouse colony and eventually the inbreeding led to tumors 
and such. It was a lot easier than the pygmy hedgehogs.

When we were kids we used to have chipmunks. Norwegian rats are 
interesting pets.

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