Although Mice are often kept as childhood pets, those purchased in a pet store are of considerably different breeding to wild Mice. Wild mice can carry ticks and fleas and undesirable microscopic organisms too.
Mice Facts & Figures
- Life span 9 - 12 months
- Sexually mature after just 6 weeks
- Average 8 litters per year, 5-6 per litter
- A single female mouse could produce on average 44 young in a year
- That mouse' offspring could produce on average 1936 young in a year