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?

Comments

[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.