Malin's Mouse Rescue

26/09/2024

*On behalf of Thornberry Animal Sanctuary*

Thornberry have a number of small animals in their care looking for homes.

Links to each are included, please contact Thornberry directly if you are interested in adopting any of the animals in their care.

2 Rats, Male, Zip and Zap around 1 year old
https://www.thornberryanimalsanctuary.org/animals/zip-zap/

Rats are brilliant pets, they have very big personalities and bond well in groups. Hormonal aggression in males can be common around 6-12months however they can be neutered and reintroduced with great success, this doesn't seem like an issue with these two. (I have personally done this with 2 of my own rats previously) lots of enrichment and socialising is a must for rats to keep their tiny minds working, simply changing the toys around and having a rotation would work for this. They get on well with large groups but this isn't necessary, I've had as many as 7 together myself between 1-2 years of age with a mix of litter mates and unrelated. Some are more snuggly than others but all of them will wriggle their mischievous way into your heart. These two could be kept as a pair or potentially bonded into an existing group of boys depending on personalities.

2 female Degus, Tara and Yen around 8 months old
https://www.thornberryanimalsanctuary.org/animals/tara-yen/
Degus are big climbers so a metal rat or ferret cage is ideal for them. Like all rodents their teeth are constantly growing so lots of things to chew on and natural enrichment is a must. They also love to burrow like gerbils so an option for that is brilliant.

2 Male Gerbils, Bertie and Ernie around 4 months old
https://www.thornberryanimalsanctuary.org/animals/bertie-ernie/

Gerbils LOVE to make burrows. A large tank is ideal with lots of deep bedding. A mix of substrates helps to hold the burrows and being able to see what they create is pretty amazing!

Natural chews, I'd personally suggest a glass bottle if it is to be kept in the cage or a few ceramic dishes for water where they can't be knocked over.

African Soft Furs, various ages and s*xes
https://www.thornberryanimalsanctuary.org/animals/african-soft-furs/

African Soft Furs (also known as ASFs/multimammates) can be housed with mice however there are a couple of different accommodations to make regarding their care. If you have a lone male mouse a group of female ASFs would provide suitable company and would not require your male mouse to be neutered. Alternatively female mice can be kept with ASFs of either s*x as long as they are single s*x groups e.g all males or all females.

A glass tank is best for them with plenty of ventilation.

ASFs can live in groups, a trio or more is ideal as they can form strong attachments in their groups and have been known to die of heartbreak when a friend is lost so a lone ASF isn't a happy ASF.

ASFs aren't as naturally handleable as mice so confidence is a must regarding handling but this can come in time and with regular practice. A large non-chewable enclosure with lots of natural forage, chewables and enrichment will suit them perfectly. Regular handling in a safe and secure area is crucial to enable health checks as ASFs can leap very high. Any rodent in escape mode is very fast and difficult to catch.

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09/08/2024

Location update:

Our Sheffield hub is now in Chesterfield. Housing is now sorted!

Everyone in York will be coming to Chesterfield for a little holiday this coming week so if there is anyone who takes your fancy please get in touch :)

MMR Team

22/05/2024

❤AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION❤ The Sweets Girls

These girls had been on health watch for a while but are now all good and ready for adoption. Their original owner bonded them together after them originally being a group of 3 and a group of 4 so they can either be adopted out as a group of 7 or as a 3 and a 4 in their original groupings.

We don't know their exact age but they are definitely young girls! As most groups are they are very independent ladies but they are also all nice and easy to handle and would be suitable for either experienced owners or those fairly new to mice.

21/05/2024

❤AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION❤These gorgeous young boys are Still looking for their forever homes, 3 of them had been reserved but sadly these homes fell through. Rolo and Cadbury are approx 6 months old and Guylian and Mars are approx 5months old.

They are all such sweet and lovely boys, Guylian can be very shy but he's come on leaps and bounds. They would all be great candidates for neutering if somebody wanted to adopt and then neuter to eventually bond with girls. Unfortunately due to the personal circumstances of our team at the moment it isn't possible for us to book in any neuters ourselves at the moment. Of the 4 Mars is definitely the most confident and most suitable for a first time mouse owner but they are all great boys.

20/02/2024

It's national love your pet day! 💙

This was one of our ex residents Kramer who was adopted by our York fosterer who funded his neuter prior to adopting him. He is sadly no longer with us but lived a very happy life with his girlfriends.

We would love to hear about all of your pets both past and present and how they made your life better. Pets can be a massive mental health boost and its amazing how much even the tiniest little lives can enrich our own in such a huge way!

Our team and their families have a variety of pets between us besides mice, from hamsters and rats, to cats, tortoises and dogs. Each and every one plays a very important part in our lives no matter how big or small, or how long or short a time they are with us. Every one is so precious!

13/02/2024

Happy Pancake Day 🥞

Our York fosterer made the gang some yummy pet friendly pancakes.

Flour, egg, mashed banana, peanut butter, oats and water. Then top with your lil furry friends choice of topping, we went with a nice healthy option of blueberries since they were the fresh snack of the day anyways. Once the pancakes were put in their cages after quick photos they demolished them pretty quickly so I think this recipe was a hit!

12/02/2024

Our Golden Oldies! Del Boy, Rodney and Albert have been with us for quite some time now. Despite being such beautiful boys they are still with us due to needing more experienced homes. They are still looking for top notch retirement homes, though their fosterer classes them as part of the family will always be happy for them to stay if nobody is willing to take on an older boy who can be difficult at times. These 3 brothers will be 2 years old in June.

Zazu came to us a bit more recently, we don't know his age but he's definitely an older boyo who is super chill and suitable for a less experienced mouse owner as he's a very sweet and easy going boy. Zazu would be a great mouse for a first timer. He does get a little bit of old age related sticky eye when he's been asleep for a long time but he clears it away without help very quickly.

These boys are all being fostered in York but can be transported to Sheffield for adoptions.

11/02/2024

February has seen 8 mice go to their furever homes so far!

Wispa, Minstrel and Buttons went to a home where they will be joining other girls, and all being well Reece will eventually be bonded with them as their adopter plans to neuter him. Bounty, Revel and Galaxy have also been adopted to a home where they will be joining other girls. And old man Rafi who we hadn't got around to adding onto the page yet also got adopted. It's so lovely to see a senior boy go to a home who is going to spoil him and give him lots of attention.

We have however also have had a couple adoptions fall through of mice who were reserved very early on which is always very sad though we are optimistic that they will be reserved again pretty quickly, and failing that their fosterer adores them anyway and is always happy to lifelong foster if homes never arise. The only downside is the more that stay with our foster team permanently the less other mice we can help

30/01/2024

After lots of initial interest in our lovely girls people have all applied for the same trio which has now been reserved. We still have two lovely trios of girls available, as well as sweet boy Rolo.

We are doing a run to our York fosterer this weekend to pick mice who have been reserved to people wanting to collect from Sheffield so if you are interested in adopting any of those still available and are able to collect from Sheffield this weekend now is the time to let us know and get those applications in so we can get any with successful applications reserved and added to the transport list for this weekend.

We also have a one off opportunity to potentially adopt out to people in Meliden/Dyserth area in North Wales if you are definitely able to accept delivery of mouse/mice or collect from Meliden or Dyserth strictly on the 12th of February only as the member of our team heading that way cannot keep mice with them in their accommodation and would have to drop with adopters before checking in.

26/01/2024

11/01/2024

Galaxy says a massive thankyou to Ellie on behalf of all the rescues for the lovely donations she made in her sweet boy Gino's memory 🥰 and thankyou again for adopting Gino and giving him the best life a mouse could ever wish for, he was the luckiest boy in the world! Sending you lots of love from all the mice ❤️

06/01/2024

And these are the boys from our 30th December intake. Rolo, Cadbury and Reese should be ready to go up for adoption in a weeks time as they so far have shown to be in good health however due to being younger Mars and Guylian will need to wait a little longer. None of these boys are neutered due to being so young, still being on their assessment period and have not been booked in for neutering due to current lack of funding to meet the neutering costs of the exotics vet local to our fosterer who is currently caring for them which charge a much much higher fee than the exotics vets we normally use for the rescue however would all be great candidates for neutering and we would really love to adopt them to homes who are looking to neuter them and bond them into a group.

They are a little shy but if you give them a lot of time and patience and do things on their terms they will soon gain confidence. Due to them being nervous their fosterer has been putting a sleeved arm in their cages and waiting for them to come to her and climb on rather than just picking them up and potentially making that fear worse. This method is time consuming but is working well to build that confidence in them and earn their trust. They are all incredibly sweet boys.

06/01/2024

Sorry that we've been so quiet for so long, the whole team have had a lot on personally and also just been busy focusing on caring for our fosters and personal pets and so socials had taken a backseat.

We have been closed to new intakes for some time now while we focus on caring for our boys who continue to receive no adoption enquiries (and are still technically closed to intakes) However just before new years one of our fosterers agreed to make space for an intake after we had been asked for help and we had initially suggested other rescues to the surrenderer for them to come back to us saying none of them had space. We were told there was 10 females and agreed we could take the females and 2 out of 6 males as that is what our fosterer had comfortable space for after recently losing both some of her fosters and personal mice to old age. However the surrenderer turned up with all 6 boys pushing for all to be taken so she caved and took 3 instead of 2. The cage of '10 girls' was actually 14 and on checking each one over and weighing them all she immediately found two of the 'girls' to be boys, one thankfully definitely too young to have caused any pregnancies but the other was right on the edge of being an age where he may possibly have been able to so the girls currently have another two weeks of pregnancy watch to go. You may register your interest in any of these mice however it will be an absolute minimum of two weeks before any of them are ready to go up for adoption. Some of them are too young to be able to leave in 2 weeks and a couple of them are also on health watch. We will be looking to adopt the girls out in trios, ideally to be joining existing colonies. These are the 12 girls, we will post the boys on a separate post as Instagram doesn't like the images being different orientations.

Our long stay boys are still looking for homes and we will upload some more recent photos of them in the next few days.