Are mice good pets to keep?

Question

i'm getting mice soon, and i was wondering if they were as social and friendly as rats were... i'm not sure.. can you help?

Answer 1

we had a mouse in our dorm once...it pooped everywhere and sucked.

Answer 2

yes they actually make great pets. just be very careful to not get male and female or two males alone. they will fight if males and of course male/female you would have TONS i mean TONS of babies quick! hard to get rid of them.  

Answer 3

i prefer a hamster. maybe mice are good too. but hamsters are the best! ( any kind of hamster is good!)

Answer 4

I used to work with a wide range of animals, and Mice where one of them!

They smelt sooooooooooo bad! Really rank!

I had to hold my breath when i was around them!

When I did take a breath in I felt like throwing up!

Really bad smell!

But other then that they are really sweet!

Answer 5

I would get a hamster! A roborovski dwarf hamster!

Answer 6

if you like the smell and being woken up in the middle of the night by the stupid thing running on the weel and eating more loudly than you would think possible for such a small and ugly looking thing. get one, and if you don't like it you can always eat it in your frustration. it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside

Answer 7

Mice are great pets, but in my opinion they are not as social and friendly as rats. If you want rats get rats. If you want mice then get mice, but don't expect the mice to act like rats. Male mice do have a rather strong musky odor to them and they require their cage to be cleaned at least once a week to keep the odor from becoming very bad.

Answer 8

they smell...

>:-(-

Answer 9

I had a pet mouse and he was so adorable and very friendly. I would often take him out and just hold him when i was watching tv or something. By the way i notice you are worrying about the smell. The answer is yes they do smell bad but if you clean out the cage daily there wont be, the smell never bothered me!

Answer 10

some could be, it actually depends on what kind of mice,  

Answer 11

rats are SOOOOOOOOO much better than mice. you can teach  them tricks, tame them to be your best friend, toilet train them, play with them all day and they won't get bored, wash them, put them in the bath and let them swim around and so much more.

rats are also very low maintenance and love your company, that's why i chose rats.

i wouldn't get a mouse because i hear they bite a lott,  rats rarely bite.

Answer 12

they make excellenet pets just make sure you stick to the same s*x tho or you will end up with hundreds of babys (mice are sexually mature at 6 weeks for f and 8 weeks for m so bear that in mind)

mice do smell a bit i wouldnt advise putting them in your bedroom but if you clean them out once a week they dont smell as bad (they only smell a lil worse than a hamster) =]

it is better to get a giant fish tank to keep mice in with a plastic framed wire netting lid as they're so tiny they could squeeze through the bars of other cages

hope this helps =]

Answer 13

I.m afraid mice do smell bad. Have a rat instead they are far more fun. you can train them too