Mousies!

[ellen_datlow]

So...how many of you know that there are Mouse shows (like cat and dog shows) where enthusiasts show their mice? I just discovered this on a listserve I'm on (ghost stories not mice) and was pointed to this site:
national mouse club

Go to "breed standards" and you'll some really pretty mice. Especially the "satin"--champagne and the agouti under the "AOV" section.

I was hoping they preened or did special walks as dogs do but no such luck. Still. Cool, no?

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[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Pssst: they have chinchilla shows, too! Heh. They have different fur types and all as well, and breeding charts. My favorites are the mosaics (white with grey-black ears and nose) and the violets (a deep purpley black). My Rogue is a pink-white, but could never be shown because she has a malformed nose from a babyhood injury (before I got her). My Jubilee that passed away was a hetero beige with a kind of bluish-purple undercurrent to her fur, and was so pretty, the breeder almost didn't want to sell her to me - he wanted to show her. She had little freckles on her ears that were just adorable. *sigh* Poor thing.

Hem. Anyway, enough rambling about my pet(s). I'd love to go to a show if I knew where one was, though. :)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

P.S. My chillas both know/knew some tricks. They are quite smart. I think that should be part of the show, although I don't know if it is.

Also I had 2 mice at one point, Tori and Ani. They told me they were girls, and they turned out to be boys! But they were very pretty, even if they were just pet-store mice. Sooo smart.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It's not only small mammals that people have a difficult time sexing. When I was a kid we got a parakeet, named him Johnnie and he turned out to be a she.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

It was just fortunate for me that I'd named them after two singers with kind of unisex names. Heh.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

We ended up with Frankie (a male) and Johnny (the female we thought was male)--they hated each other. Frankie ended up shaken to death by our cocker spaniel when we were out for the day--feathers all over the place. And Johnnie lasted a long time after that till she just dropped off her perch dead.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Awww, Ginger Clark, a literary agent has chinchillas as pets. All furry things are cute, as far as I'm concerned.