Baby mouse found what to do?
Hello,
On my way home I discovered a little baby mouse on a bike path.
I took her home because I couldn't bring myself to let her die.
She is still quite small. Not really bigger or fatter than my little finger, I estimate she is 10-14 days old. She already has fur and is already opening her eyes. I have built her a cozy nest with a wool blanket where she is nice and warm. She is also protected from the rain because I have her in the conservatory. I have also already bought substitute mother's milk for baby cats and have been feeding it to her with a pipette. She doesn't drink often though. I don't really know much about mice, but I think she fell because every time she tries to walk she falls over on her side. I just wanted to ask again and ask if anyone could give me any further tips and maybe someone knows why she can't walk properly. I haven't been to a vet yet because most vets don't treat wild animals.
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Thank you for taking care of her. But best look for someone who knows about such animals who can advise you. Or try it with special veterinarians or wildlife collection stations.
Release them again so that the food chain is not interrupted in nature.
For the future, don’t touch wild infants, even in the case of a well-mean animal love. It may be that otherwise the human odor will turn off and the child will no longer be recognized by the mother.
If you want to keep it You think about adding other mice, maybe by chance someone a orphaned mother to whom the offspring animals died, probably not. And if you want to keep it, you have to deal with rodents and mice. And simply putting back into the wild is not good for the mouse, then she has not learned to hide from enemies until then and to seek her own food. Destruction is something you have to know very well. I’d rather talk to an animal shelter, how to proceed with the animal. Please do not crawl from one place to another, but only clarify how it will continue in the next future.
I certainly don’t want to blame anyone who thinks well so quickly decides to help another living entity, but please don’t take a wild animal home unconsidered again. This is a good idea in the rarest exceptional cases, only if you don’t have animals of the same kind. In principle, it is not necessary to “save” a small animal, because they learn how they move in the great wide world and also have to learn to get along on their own and only because it was once alone does not mean that she has no mum that was just somewhere else.
Turn to a wildlife help! You’ll find great emergency groups in Facebook
Mice starve extremely fast, without food. If they don’t even want to eat or drink properly, I guess she won’t be long.
Mice are vermin. I just would’ve fucked her up.
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to do much. If they need very special milk and it is extremely complicated and difficult to get through an animal. It can also be good that this young boy is too weak, ill and therefore was violated by the mother. In the animal kingdom, the stronger young have an even better chance. For mice as a kind, a young man would not be a loss. They multiply very quickly and only one mouse can testify around the 2000 young. Many do not survive enough to get the way. In nature there is no place for too weak or sick.