Sounds to me like you have two male mice. From my experience, when I have
chosen mice out at a store, I find it sometimes very hard to identify the males
from the females. I think this is usually due to the young age. Once I named a
mouse Harry, the male and Piper the female... only to find out Harry was
actually Harriot and Piper, well she was really a he, but we still call him
Piper. That wasn't the first time I have had problems. I now have over a dozen
babies ready for homes and I am still waiting to correctly sex them all.
I don't know why your mouse would be flipping its tail at you. Work with them.
I wish that all the babies I have were just flipping tails at me. They are the
nippiest bunch of buggers I have ever had!

Take Care,
Heather Gerquest

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to
show."
-Mignon McLaughlin
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:39:11 -0000
From: "estrellita228"
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Subject: Questions about New Female? Mice


My bf and I recently purchased two female? mice from Petco. For the
first two days, I only opened their cage to give the new food, toy,
or water. However, on the third day, we took them out of the cage
to change some of their bedding. I think that my mice are royally
p'ed off at us for having handled them. The more extroverted one
now drums her tail against the cage whenever she sees me. Does this
mean that she's scared of me? How and when should I try to tame my
mice?

Also, um, we've noticed a peculiar bulge underneath their tail. I
don't want to pick them up again yet to examine the distance between
anus and genitalia to sex them. We specifically requested two mice
from the cage marked "female" because we wanted to avoid fighting
and the musky odor. Our mice get along well. The larger, more
extroverted one will occasionally dart after the other. But no
squeaking, no fighting, no blood. And there's a mousey odor, but
since we've never owned mice before, I don't know if this is musk or
a urine/poop smell. No matter what though, my bf and I have decided
that we love our new snuggle mice.





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