Posted on 11/16/2024 9:44:19 AM PST by billorites
New Hampshire shelter is asking for help after a man surrendered plastic tubs full of mice on Monday.
The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the “overwhelmed” man came into the shelter on Monday. He said he had around 150 tanks with mice in them in his home.
The statement said he brought three large plastic tubs to the shelter that same day, which held a combined 73 mice. Shelter staff said they made house trips on Tuesday and Wednesday and took over 400 mice from the man. The statement said the mice were not separated by sex and were reproducing “uncontrolled.”
“By Tuesday morning, more mice had been born,” the statement said. “Our current estimate is that there are an approximate 400 still at the man’s home, but we may be looking at intaking as many as 1,000 mice in total.”
The shelter said they alerted all other shelters and humane societies in the New England area, asking for help transferring the mice out of the NHSPCA to make space for the rest of the mice still in the man’s home.
The mice were living in “filthy” tubs when they arrived at the shelter, the statement said. Now, the shelter said the mice are in clean spaces with access to food and water.
“We have never seen anything like this,” Savannah Alcero, Director of Animal and Veterinary Services at the shelter said. “And the longer we wait to get all of the mice out of their terrible living conditions, the greater the likelihood is that the numbers will continue to grow. With a gestation period of just around 20 days, mice can reproduce at an alarming rate.”
These mice are not wild, but rather bred to be pets, the shelter said.
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Throw some dry ice in the tub. Seal the tub. Problem solved. Send the corpses to the local zoo.
Mice mice baby
I think mice are rather nice;
Their tails are long, their faces small;
They haven’t any chins at all.
Their ears are pink, their teeth are white,
They run about the house at night;
They nibble things they shouldn’t touch,
and, no one seems to like them much,
but, I think mice are rather nice.
Rose Fyleman
There's a hidden lesson here, but I think I will let the readers discern it.
Take them to the cat shelter.
Thanks for that.
No doubt it was a great plan except for the thousands of mice part.
Falconers could use them; but they buy them already killed and frozen...
Hate rodents. The dog is useless in that regard, but the cat, with his black fur and soul is a stone cold killer inside and out. Rodents, bunnies, terror to foxes sniffing around the chickens. Just an absolute beast. Good kitty.
Yuk. Is the shelter going to neuter and spay? (Eye roll)
Send them to Florida the fed the Pythons.
Where is the state, with full-autos, to kill all those rabid wildlife?
“Need to acquire a few snakes.”
OR feral cats. ;-)
Tyrus on Gutfeld has a collection of reptiles. I’ll bet he’d buy them all!
He should hook up with one of those childless cat ladies.
I agree. The article says “The mice were living in cramped, “filthy,” tubs, the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said.” I think this pretty much describes their natural habitat.
People with reptiles who need live food usually buy them as needed. I don’t think he wants to house a thousand :-)
I guess they haven’t discovered his collection of 500 poisonous snakes yet. Finding new homes for those is going to be a challenge... :)
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