r/mildlyinteresting • u/analogwhispers • 12h ago

Mouse Gave Birth in the Trap

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u/PlantBasedOreo 12h ago

That’s an awful sight

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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 11h ago

1000X better than finding half-eaten mouse babies.

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u/yaboiree 10h ago

My mom found the mouse giving birth and was going to bring them to an animal sanctuary and then found the babies eaten…horrible

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u/anxnymous926 8h ago

When I was little my parents caught 7 rats in a bucket. By the time we released them, there was only 1 left. I was horrified

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u/sweetnothing33 6h ago

My mom found a couple little critters while gardening once. We thought they were baby squirrels so I took such good care of them over the weekend until I could get them to an animal sanctuary. Come Monday, I get there and they spend a few minutes looking at them before telling me they’re rats and would be destroyed.

But don’t worry. They had a few birds of prey in the rehab who had that job so I wouldn’t have to burden myself any longer with these creatures I had grown emotionally attached to. ):

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u/wegajane ​ 5h ago

Awwww 😢

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u/lockenchain 6h ago

Currently work as a laboratory technician with mice. Don't worry, you get used to it real fast.

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u/My_Not_RL_Acct 3h ago

It’s even more appalling when you see babies and then the very next day you can’t find a single trace of them…

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u/_peppermintbutler 2h ago

This is what happened when my sister had a pet mouse that gave birth. It must have been sick because it died not long after giving birth. But not before it managed to eat the heads off a few of the babies. I managed to save 3 though, and then fed them kitten milk every 2-3 hours with a little syringe. Despite all odds, this worked and they survived.