Originally Posted by Egapal
Ok so a few comments. I do not see anything wrong with keeping a male mouse by itself for a few weeks vs feeding that mouse to a snake and buying a new stud for 2 dollars at my local pet store when the time comes. There is no way I am paying to have a male mouse neutered. This falls under the category of doing all I can reasonably do for my animals. With the majority of the people on the planet killing the mice in their homes I find it to be an unbelievable waste of time an energy to sterilize one. So lets break down the options
1.) Keep the male mouse with other males. (Cruel as they will fight and injure each other)
2.) Keep the male all by his lonesome. (Cruel cause he is lonely)
3.) Feed off the male and get a new stud when needed (Promotes inbreeding if you use a juvenile male you have or promotes a petstore raising mice which is 1000 times worse than the conditions I raise mice in)
4.) Neuter a male for a cage buddy. (Costs way more than 2 dollars and I could never live with myself if I got a mouse neutered while simultaneously breeding mice to feed to my snake. I would much rather donate the money I would have spent to get local stray cats neutered.)
Thats all I found for options and option 2 sounded like the best to me. If you just can't stand the thought of that male mouse being all alone. You could build a basket out of quarter inch hardware cloth large enough for the male to live in. Put that in the cage with the females. That way the male can socialize through the mesh but not breed the females. I would not put the male in with the nursing mothers though as the pups could get through the mesh.
you forgot the part where its not illegal
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