Pink Magpie's Rodents

Hello, I'm Pink Magpie a.k.a Claire. I'm a bit of a lover of rodents having owned mice for the past couple of years along with Multimammates (or Soft Furred African Rats if you prefer) and if my camera is handy and they stay still long enough I will snap a photo of them, regularly showing them to people proudly like they do to me with their children saying "LOOK AT HOW CUTE THIS IS!!!! HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THEM?!?!?!".

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i am in pain.

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I've got loads of photos I need to go through and post up. 

I lost Vera this week and was down to three girls so I just got two more girls for the group. Nelly, top right, is so pissed at me. Seriously, I don't normally wake them during the day and she's got all puffed up and just glaring at me and shaking her tail when I put my hand near. Opps. 

They're getting on okay at the moment. Little bit of squeaking from the tiny one due to the girls being a bit too aggressive. Mainly Nelly trying to show who's boss. 

BTW a tip for anyone introducing mice to their group, put vanilla essence (just the cooking type used in baking) on the base of their tails. It just introduces them all with a similar scent and I've noticed it always helps. And always do it in a seperate tank/box. I've got a new plastic box with holes drilled in it for air, that way it's not an introduction of another groups space. 

After this I'm going to try introduce the girls on my fancy boys. 

I'm unsure about the place I got these guys from. I've been in there a few times and the girls are always pregnant. I've a feeling that they're doing that so they can just keep having stock but it's just encouraging inbreeding and the poor things are  getting pregnant as soon as they're old enough. I'm going to have to look for another place that breeds mice. 

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I have lots of new photos to put up eventually. But welcome to my two new girl multimammates. 

I sadly lost three rodents in two weeks. Jess was very sick and I wasn't surprised, Ethel was so tiny and never the best of health. Daphne was the only one that was a big shock and was devastated from. I've have her and her sister for nearly 3 years and I thought it would be Wallace first. She now has  three fancy mice to keep her company. (More photos later)

Multi breeders are hard to find in my area, so I'd given up hope. These girls had just been handed into the pet shop I walked in to with the intention to buy new fancies, and they didn't really have a clue about them. Stuck in a horribly tiny cage I took them right away, they're in my introduction tank and I'm looking at  the possibility in introducing them to Wallace and her boys. 

Here's Harley and Quinn. :) 

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Pantalaimon would sit on my shoulder and whip me in the face with his tail. I used to use him to make a mouse-tache. My first Multi and the multi that made me fall in love with multis from then on. 

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My little fuzzy Ronald. Sadly he died two days before Christmas 2012. He'd been a bit under the weather and by the time I came back from seeing Madness he'd died curled up with the girls. I wish I'd been there for his last moments because I adored this little guy. He was so tame and used to chill on my shoulder, took hugely after his name sake who is my Granddad. Though obviously my Granddad doesn't chill on my shoulder. 

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Sparrow

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Evelyn when I had just get. 

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Pantalaimon crashing in his Fuzzbutts corner crush. Before it was completely destroyed by them all. 

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Evelyn used to look after all her sisters and I got some photos of her cleaning Sparrow face for her. It was a manner of pinning her down and not letting her move until she was done. 

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Sparrow, Magpie and Evelyn enjoying broccoli. They like their greens. 

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Jess having a treat. 

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Nelly still does not like me. She has no time for me at all, in fact the way we handle changing the tank is that she eventually jumps on my arm, runs to my shoulder and I move my arm to the carrier and she runs down and jumps back in. It's reversed for going back in. 

She spotted me taking a photo and promptly went and hid under the rest. 

Beautiful girl though and she takes care of the little ones. 

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New lens! I am in love with the 50mm I picked up today. Thanks so much to many-splendored-rat for her advice while I was picking this! (And if you haven’t seen her blog you should check it out - she has awesome rat photos and the occasional mouse.)

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My new mice, I'm trying to get photos that show how tiny they are because I really can't get  over it but I can't seem to. 

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See Kiki did not like staying still. In fact the only time she ever was still was when she was asleep. So getting proper photos of her proved impossible.