Mice on a Train

[TMoore]

Since I'm new here I figured I would post a funny story that happened a few months ago.

On this particular feeding day the pet shop I usually used to get feeders from was out of everything. I live in Boston so I took the T(subway) to the petco over in Cambridge.

I bought 10 or so mice and put the little carboard box in my bag without thinking twice. The little box was the one that you push down on the center and the sides pop out and it opens.

So when I got on the T to go home I put my bag on the seat next to me. Halfway home I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye. I look over and see several of the mice had managed to get out of the box and were crawling out the top of my bag. I freaked and tried to stuff them back in a zip it up. I was to slow and the woman across from me saw them and yelled "oh my god is that a snake!' I have know idea how she though a couple of mice was a snake but she ran to the other end of the car and gave me dirty looks till I got of at my stop. When I got home it took me a while to dig through my bag and find all the escapees.

Needless to say, since then I started breeding my own feeders.

[nixer]

that happened to me in the truck once. i was driving home and a lil white mouse touched my hand on the counsole. of course i was driving about 75mph i freaked out not knowing what it was then i had to pull over and catch like 15 mice in my truck.

[aaramire]

Something similar happened to me, my friend and I had two boxes with about 5 mice split between them. She was driving and I was a passenger, with the mice in boxes at my feet. Well wouldnt you know the little buggers chewed out of the boxes, and crawled onto my toes. I freaked out and grabbed one, luckily it didnt try to escape at all, kinda funny actually just sat there on my foot while i scooped it up and put it back in the box.

[Schlyne]

I had that happen after I put a box from the LPS with a couple of mice in it in my backpack. They pushed the cardboard open inside the bag, so when I got home one of them ran out of the bag and started running around inside the apartment. I was lucky enough to grab it before my cat did.

[Ladydragon]

I've only had that happen once, now I bring one of those little critter keepers to the store with me.. no more escapees for me.

[kc261]

This is not quite the same, but this thread brought up a memory. Once when I was a kid... old enough I should have known better, but still a kid.... we had pet rats. Actually I've had pet rats off & on a few different times in my life.

Anyway, some boy I had a crush on brought a snake to school. He rode the same bus as me, and he was handing it around to kids in the back of the bus letting them hold it. I saw it and blurted out something like "oh my gosh is that a snake?!" which 1) got him in trouble with the bus driver who had no idea a live animal was on the bus and 2) for some reason convinced the boy I was scared of the snake. So then he wouldn't let me hold the snake. I was doubly hurt because I loved snakes, wasn't afraid of them at all, and of course the whole crush thing and he was snubbing me.

So, somehow my young probably full of adolescent hormones head got the notion that the way to solve this problem was to show off the cool pet I had... . So, I brought a rat to school. Without permission from the school or the bus driver or my parents. Which also meant without any sort of proper caging. I had a jacket that had pockets that zipped closed, so I put the rat in there and zipped the pocket.

Needless to say, this did not keep the rat contained all day. At some point during the day, I started seeing my rat running around the classroom floor! Through some miracle, the rat was never seen by the teacher, despite the kids whispering about it. Also it apparently felt safe in the jacket pocket, and kept returning there. At dismissal time, it was luckily in my jacket, because I can't imagine how I would have explained searching the classroom for it to the teacher! So the rat and I just went home.

I got off the bus thinking I'd gotten away with it, as my parents both worked and I got home before them. But, for some reason I no longer remember (some family emergency type thing), they were both there when I got there. So, I got busted! Luckily I think they were more preoccupied with the emergency thing, so I kind of escaped any punishment.

Funny thing is, I did this all for the boy, but I can't for the life of me remember his reaction or if he even saw the rat. The silly things we will do for love!

[joepythons]

Since I'm new here I figured I would post a funny story that happened a few months ago.

On this particular feeding day the pet shop I usually used to get feeders from was out of everything. I live in Boston so I took the T(subway) to the petco over in Cambridge.

I bought 10 or so mice and put the little carboard box in my bag without thinking twice. The little box was the one that you push down on the center and the sides pop out and it opens.

So when I got on the T to go home I put my bag on the seat next to me. Halfway home I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye. I look over and see several of the mice had managed to get out of the box and were crawling out the top of my bag. I freaked and tried to stuff them back in a zip it up. I was to slow and the woman across from me saw them and yelled "oh my god is that a snake!' I have know idea how she though a couple of mice was a snake but she ran to the other end of the car and gave me dirty looks till I got of at my stop. When I got home it took me a while to dig through my bag and find all the escapees.

Needless to say, since then I started breeding my own feeders.

LMAO .You should have said "why yes they are"

[sweety314]

Once we bought five mice. They also chewed thru the box. I found and had to catch two of them running around the back window of the car and one was on the back seat. Had to snatch him before he ducked behind or underneath.

This last trip, I knew I'd be buying 10 or more, so I took a 10g aquarium with me.