Keeping wild mouse?

Question

i found my cat playing with a wild mouse so i brought it inside and put it in a box with some hay and leaves etc. would it be cruel to keep it? i really want to keep it, it seems friendly and its not that scared. What do mice eat and drink? i gave it an apple and some guinea pig seed/grain.

Answer 1

let it go and buy your self a tame mouse from the pet store if you want a mouse so badly

Answer 2

DON'T keep it(it could go feral and course you pain) you may want to keep it but trust me it dose not want to be kept

Answer 3

it probably better to let it go but you can get one from the shops they are really really really cheap

it is proaly 130 dollars average for as long as it lives

Answer 4

awwww cute!!!!

well I think you should keep it for a couple of days then let it go!

but feed it some water and some fruits!!

Answer 5

yea its fine they arnt the smartest creatures so they dont even know and yea the diet is good and they are like rats they can and will eat anything and you should probely get a  little cage for it and a watter bottle at a pet store.

Answer 6

NOOOO. Don't feed it cheese, it could kill it. Mice eat grains, fruits, vegetables and stuff. Some good foods are pumpkin seeds, pumpkin, rock melon, honeydew, grains, multi-grain bread (no white bread), bird seed, you can get proper mice food from a pet shop and its really cheap. Just give it a shallow, flat dish of clean water. Make sure it hasn't got chlorine in it. The best bedding to give mice is wood shavings or shredded paper. Leaves and stuff are likely to have mites and fleas and stuff in them which could affect your mouse's health. Is the box cardboard? If it is you won't have a mouse soon, he'll very quickly chew his way out of it, trust me, mine did. Also give him some hard woody branches and sticks to chew on. Mice teeth constantly grow so he needs something to naw on to wear them down. Good luck.

Answer 7

It is cruel to keep a wild animal that is used to the wide open world.  Give it a meal of veggies and guinea pig food then let it go.  You can leave food outside for it if you want to help it on it's way.

Answer 8

If it eats it then you are doing fine.  Just make sure that it doesn't have any diseases.  I had a friend who caught a squirrel and taught it to do tricks, it didn't have any problems after it was domesticated.  We found a baby raccoon and raised it, though I heard that she is no longer at my parents house and stays a couple of streets above my parents house now.  You may want to take it to a vet also.

Answer 9

be careful it might be diseased of sumthing

get it checked out and yeah

hav fun!