I've found a very young baby field mouse please help?
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if it fell out the loft should its nest not be up there leave the baby fild mouse up there and the mum will get it
if it is not hurt u should leave it alone but if it is visibly hurt ie. a cut ,phone the RSPCA they shall help it
leave where you found it as the others will be near bye are you sure it a field mouse if other get rid of feed to cat
take it to the vet
the best thing you can do is to let it go outside the house. I know it sounds mean but there is really not much to do for it. These mice aren't meant as pets, and now that you put human smell on it, its mama might reject it. Also, living domesticated prevents it from learning how to fend for itself. If its still hairless, you're likely to lose it anyway.
I'm sorry hun, but I've tried too many times and lost so many wild babies that somehow end up in my home..
why would you feed a mouse baby formula? You should have left the mouse where it was.
Put it back in the loft.
Feed it to a Boa Constrictor.
Field mice can cary diseases, you should probably kill it before you get sick
If it hasn't urinated in 2 days, that's no good. Animals will die if they can't urinate. It should urinate within a minute of the warm towel on his abdomen area. But your best bet is to call a wildife shelter near you. They can advise you what to do. However, you may or may not want to bring it into the shelter. In my experience, some places will feed mice, rabbits, etc to the predator animals.
MMmm a tasty treat for a cat!!
Let him loose on your privates, only if you have fur though, thats how they prefer to urinate.
Its too late now the mom wont touch it she might even kill it they are wild mice. might as well put it outside and leave it to die, that is unless you like mice in your house thing is prob brian damaged anyways. Death is a part of nature you cant save everything
Are you going to keep it for a while? ..If so, maybe find it a nice snuggly shoe box or something that it can't get out of, but still has enough room.
I wouldn't be overly concerned about it not urinating yet. maybe it's terrified?
I know there's some websites on the net where people chat about various types of rodents. but you have to do a little Googling to find them.
I'll bet they can give you some great advice! There's even some forums you can find out there that veterinarian's drop in to respond to questions.
Best of luck to the little guy!!!
i gotta lol at some of the answers here..keep feeding it and keep it warm,it's using up the milk,thats why no pee.when it gets to much food for its needs it will come out as waste, ie: poop or pee
and can be raised like a tame mouse,as it is used to being handled.i raised a flying squirrel from a tiny baby,that i found after helping put out a forest fire.
they eat right away. give it some crumbs of cheese. i just read they will eat anything we eat, i know they like bread because they clawed into mine. they are full grown at three weeks.
I haven't been through this myself, but here are a couple of websites that may have help.
This one is about rats, but the sixth paragraph talks about helping the babies eliminate:
http://www.ratfanclub.org/orphans.html.
And here's another site on the subject:
http://www.rmca.org/articles/orphans.htm.
From reading them it sounds like you're on the right track. However, according to the second site, the baby may be dehydrated:
"If the baby is dehydrated, it may not urinate."
These sites have email addresses and phone numbers on them. Hopefully someone on one of them can help!
Rodents really are quite sweet in their way - good for you for trying to rescue this one.
More then Likely the mother pushed it out of the nest.. Animal's know if one of there kind has something wrong with there new born. Don't put it back. I'm not saying it can't go on living, but the mother knows that there's a problem with that baby mouse and she didn't want to take care for it. But please help the little guy out.. Maybe as you. you can bring the mouse back to life and find your home it's home or find a good home for it. It's not the mouse's fault for being a mouse, Just like us all, we are a gods children. Hey that could be you in this mouse's spot right now. Hoping to hang on and fine someone to save your life..
First of all,bless you for taking care of the little thing .A lot of people would have just killed it or thrown it away to starve.Mice are omnivores and will eat just about anything.I would offer it a bit of porridge and some soft fruit(applesauce or banana),but not too much as it could cause diarrhea.Or get some commercial mouse pellets at the pet store and moisten them slightly.As it gets older add seeds,nuts and Cheerios.You might want to keep the little thing as a pet.Mice make delightful pets;they don't eat much;they never need walking,and a ten-gallon aquarium with some wood shavings,an exercise wheel and a little hut to sleep in makes them quite happy.Good luck!
Buy a snake.
I had a baby squirrel don't feel bad. I was using goats milk but dilate it & warm it up. I would use a suringe would be best but if u cant get ahold of one an eye dropper but be sure to go slow to much too fast can cause the little fellow to get fluid in it's lungs and will die.Research on the net, I never done anything with mice but would guess it's not much different than a squerill, Make sure very important to have a heating pad and towle KEEP IT WARM!! Very important and feed about 1 time every 2 to 3 hrs.use a warn wet rag to help stimulate urine..
U can get goats milk at the store.keep can in fridge and warm up mixure with water down about half and half to a little more water than half with goats milk..
Good Luck Yes wild babies are very risky even more when you can't get a vet or wild life to get it from ya cause u live too far or they are too busy..
The best thing now is to decide wherever you are going to keep it or not - becuase if your not you CANT release it. You've covered a creature at the very bottom of the food chain that has no natural defenses with your human ungodly scent, it will be sniffed out and torn apart if you release it - even it's own parents would do that.
If your going to keep it buy a mouse/hamster cage, fill it with warm bedding and pellets, make the little guy happy- if he was dumped by mummy for genetic defects he may not survive very long anyway - so it's all bonus time for him.
If on the other hand you dont want to keep him but youre not keen on him being ripped apart by angry mice (whatever breed they are) call the RSPCA and ask them to come pick him up, or you go drop him off.
Either way, he is not wild anymore and certainly not big enough to take care of himself.
PS. If he's not suckling anymore give him a small low bowl of water - he's more than likely dehydrated so stop rubbing his privates and give him fluids access, either that or feed him more regularly - they drink almost continually as babies, it's how they grow so big and strong so fast. So leave his genitalia and give him more to drink via a bowl etc.
Good Luck!
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