Wild mice / rats a bad idea?

[KayLynn]

My town thinks I'm that person! Twice, people have brought over stray dogs that got hit by a car. One lady tried to re-home a goat with me, and got rather difficult over my refusal. I'll take unwanted chickens if the owner is OK that it is getting butchered. Otherwise, I always say No (we have three shelter dogs already), but one neighbour talked me into taking in a baby wild rabbit. (Except, that it wasn't a rabbit, and I still don't know the creature was, and it unfortunately died a week later. Both to my sadness, and relief - it had huge alien eyes, but only a stub for a tail - reminded me of one of the Pokemon characters.)

Animals also find me. Am currently caring for what is probably a baby Ringneck (Collard ?) dove. Found it on the ground, but couldn't find the nest. We've had a lot of storms recently.

Hah yeah, it's always something or other lol. My info is listed on the fish & wildlife website for my state, so I get random calls constantly. Lucklily baby season is starting to wind down, because I was overwhelmed for a while. I took some stuff from the wildlife rescue place up the street from me (because they ran out of space) and it was almost more than I could chew. I still have 2 groups of orphaned squirrels, a couple ducks, a gannet, an eastern box turtle I fiberglassed back together who's in it for the long haul, a milk snake and a black racer.

I'll be a much happier person when the squirrels are weaned and I don't have to get up every 3 hours to feed them


Anyways, no wild mice, op!