Given the option, I'd rather not breed boring mice - or rats, for that matter.

Recently got very excited, since it's a big deal 'round here to find a mouse that isn't a plain ol' laboratory albino, to find a shop with longhair satinette mice in gold, silver - and calico/brindle! They were pricey, but we brought home the calico male, gold female, and a black & tan female. The gold and brindle were dead within hours, and the black & tan lasted another two days - when we went back to the shop, their remaining male (silver) was also dead - and the spotted/cow female was on a _single_ fuzzie.

Fortunately, the rest of our colony is just fine. (TG for quarantine!)

'Nother time, I guess!

~Bruce