Kiki the neurotic mouse

Sometimes, mice go a little neurotic - and it's most likely to happen when they are bored. They will run laps, do backflips, and self-mutilate.

Kiki, one of my mice, had a companion, Bea, but she was constantly getting sick (she went blind in one eye, she had an absess, she had sniffles). Despite Bea's doting attention, she overgroomed herself and scratched a wound into the back of her neck. We (Bea and I) nursed her back to health, and the next issue was she was cleaning her face so much, she rubbed the whiskers and the fur off her nose.

After six months of the two of them living together, Bea remaining fat and happy, and Kiki spending most of her time grooming and sleeping, I decided that it was worth the risk of doing an integration with my other mouse girls.

Now, seven of them live together, and have for about 10 days. Kiki is now incredibly active - spry is the word - climbing bars, running in the wheel, and seeking food and my attention. When I reach in to pet her, because she's blind in one eye, the first thing she does is bite me before she lets me pick her up. She is almost always the first to the food bowl and the last one to leave. She is gaining weight, and I am hoping that soon her whiskers will grow back.

It turns out that though fat Bea is a good cage mate, Kiki needed to have society. And soon she will have two more, and be part of a big group of 9.

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Fwd: petition to update animal cruelty laws

My apologies for the late forward. The smallvictories.info e-mail has not been checked very often.

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From: Shannon Gault <blue_sunshine202@hotmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: petition to update animal cruelty laws
To:

Hello, my name is Shannon! If you haven't already heard, the Queen Waldorf
team in Ontario is circulating a petition to introduce government
legislation amending the Criminal Code provisions on animal cruelty based on
Bill C-373 and to recommend against Bill S-213. This petition is to honor
the 8-year-old shepherd-mix, now known as Queen, that was found riverside in
St. Catherines near a boat ramp with dumbbells tied around her neck,
weighing an estimated 7lbs.

More info can be found at www.queenwaldorf.com

The purpose of this e-mail is simply to ask if you would be willing to help
in the fight against animal cruelty by printing off a petition from the
website listed above and gather some signatures. Even one or two signatures
would help immensely!

The Queen Waldorf website provides a PDF document of the petition along with
an address as to where it can be mailed to once complete.

Your help is greatly appreciated, especially by the animals!

Thank you so much for your time!
Shannon Gault

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