RIP Wormy


Although we haven't had our rodent friends for long, Isaac and Wormy bonded immediately. They spent most of the day together for the first week or so. Being 4, Isaac wasn't especially sensitive to Wormy's needs or nerves, but he spent a lot of time telling her sweetly, "Wormy, it's OK, God is always with you". *Sniff*

I wasn't there to see the injury happen. I had been outside for a moment, and when I came back in, the boys said they had been playing hide and seek with their mice & I could tell right away when they picked up Wormy, she had met with some terrible accident. Isaac held her for a while, prayed for her, and put her in the mouse house. When I returned to check on her a few moments later, Hermie had buried her. It was one of those dreaded conversations, but I'm sure the most important part was the hugs. Poor Isaac :(

Labels: boys, pets

- posted by Lenise @ 8:09 PM |

 
New Life


I mentioned to Mom the other day that Patricia Mouse was looking a little chubby. There's also been extra squeaking from the mouse quarters lately, but the last look I got at Patricia, she didn't look any fatter than Mortimer. I chalked it up to an overactive imagination. Tonight, I cleaned the cage, trapping the mice in the paper towel roll, and dropping them into the bottom of a paper grocery bag while I worked on their home. When I went to replace them, one of them hopped out, and I took the tube with the one in and dumped her (?) into the cage. Then I trapped the other and put the tube in the cage. I looked into the paper bag and noticed two rolls that looked a lot like (sorry!) cat excrement on the bottom. What the?? Oh, yeah. Patricia and Mortimer have been busy.

So I moved the two babies into the cage with their parents, thinking we were pretty lucky- two babies isn't many at all. Patricia retrieved her two errant children to the safety of the cardboard tube. (She was kind enough to wait for Paul to see them briefly first). I figured that was the last I'd see of the tiny ones for a while, and set about doing something else. Returning to the living room, I noticed that the babies were no longer in the tube. And there were a lot more than two. Seven babies in all! Soooo, now what??

Labels: babies, mysteries, pets

- posted by Lenise @ 10:17 PM |