What fits in a babyfood jar and will eat its young?

[Chelsey]

A pygmy mouse!

There's a pet store here in Columbia that bought a trio of pygmy mice when I got my short tailed opossums. When I bought Bella (flying squirrel) I bought myself a female. Well, they weren't breeding for the pet store so they let me take them home to try my luck. I now have two litters of babies! These guys are SUPER tiny, they'll fit on a quarter. There were two pygmy mice in this babyfood jar, but by the time I got my camera there was only one left

 

[capncapo]

I think there have been a few lawsuits concerning rodents in baby food.

Been to Gerber lately?:eek1:

 

[fazgood]

If it weren't for the "fits in a babyfood jar" part...

My mother-in-law

Faz

 

[icepick96]

........mmmmmmmmmm

Snake Food. :lol:

 

[Schplitter]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11744165#post11744165 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fazgood
If it weren't for the "fits in a babyfood jar" part...

My mother-in-law

Faz

2ND THAT

 

[paulamrein]

So is this common behavior? Or is there something you can do to replicate the wild conditions that will cause them to not eat their young. I raised gerbils as a kid, and it was only when there were fear of starvation would they eat their young. (so I hear, not that it happened to me) I would have 50 or 60 at a time, and they all seem to behave themselves even with males trying to mate as soon as the females would pop them out.

 

[Chelsey]

Pygmy mice are paranoid little creatures...it's not uncommon for rodents to eat their first litter, especially hamsters. Gerbils are less likely to do so, you were lucky The pygmies will go balistic if you so much as open their cage to put food in.