Re: back to back breeding

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: There are three kinds of people who have mice (or maybe four). : Rabid Pet People... who are convinced that any sort of use of their favorite rodent for food is immoral and wrong. (and yes, some are vegetarians, but most will be arguing this as they eat their hamburger and fries). There is even a mouse club with quite a big name that states clearly that anyone who can feed a mouse to a snake "doesn't love mice". : Sensible Pet People... who like their mice, understand the facts of life, and just would rather not hear about mice being used as food, even though they accept that other animals might need to eat mice to live. : Pet/Feeder people... like myself, who bought mice to feed the snakes, and then got into liking the mice for the individual creatures they are. These people tend to allow the female mice a break at some point so that they can recuperate from back to back litters, but don't necessarily see that it is wrong. : Feeder only: people who just raise mice to feed their snakes. Give them the necessities of life, and that's the end. : Cruel people: There are few in this category who get off on hurting the mice, for whom they have no respect, these people exist wherever you go, and don't deserve to have pets of any kind. : The rabid pet people are NOT going to listen to anything you have to say. They ARE going to flame you into smithereens, even going so far as making a new nme for themselves so they can attack you from two perspectives. They will lie and do anything possible to defame you, and when asked for logical, scientific, even anecdotal evidence of the things they are so rabidly promoting, they cannot give it to you and consider you even worse than hitler that you don't instantly look at it from their point of view. : Personally, I have more mice than necessary to feed my 7 snakes. I usually give the girls a break between litters (sometimes between every other litter). I've only let one mouse have three litters in a row, and she did get very worn down, she had a break, one more litter, and now is retired. Since I am having fun with the genetics of the mice, and have more than I need, I give them more breaks. If I was just breeding for my snakes, I would still probably give them a two litters on, one month off system so that they can take a break. But I'm not saying that it is wrong to breed them back to back for six or seven litters. In the wild, in a thriving mouse colony, they would be always pregnant and nursing. : Anyway.... that's my perspective. forgive me for rambling on forever!! : ~Sasheena : <a href=http://www.geocities.com/isophecles/mice/index.html>My Mousey Page</a>

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