Great one McGrath, 'hanging kids up by their tails' I missed that completely when I wrote it - ROTFL. (Of course that's the only way to treat them.)

Penny, I like real mice as well as sugar mice. When the kids had lots of reptiles, keeping them in feeder mice got too expensive so I started breeding them (mice that is McGrath, we'd finished breeding kids by then). We had a mousery of over 200 at one time. It's amazing how many of them got to be 'keepers' because we'd become attached to them. All the breeding pairs had names. I used to have to keep all of the exercise wheels lubricated or the noise was too distracting.

I hear that harvest mice and dormice are getting quite rare in England now. Do they have breeding programs for them?

Bert.