Fancy Mice: Their Varieties Management and Breeding (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fancy Mice: Their Varieties Management and Breeding<br><br>In breeding mice as with dogs or horses or any animal selection is one of the greatest essentials and after selection comes per severance. But we are straying from the point of our present chapter.<br><br>The fancy mouse is both elegant and graceful and fully repays any pains bestowed on it as the smell is nearly if not quite destroyed by keeping the cages properly clean. There is however one thing to which we most decidedly object and that is letting the animals loose so that they multiply and overrun the whole premises both of their owner and of other persons which besides being an annoyance is also a loss of capital as fancy mice always find a ready sale at from 8d. To 108. 6d. Per pair according to the markings &c. In fact we have had as much as 305. For a pair of tortoiseshell mice and to the purchaser they were cheap as he had more than a dozen tortoiseshell ones from the pair.<br><br>Mice are easily taught various tricks and as this is sometimes an advantage we shall refer to the matter further on.<br><br>Nearly everyone has seen the wheel cages in which the mice will work for hours during the day; and in addition to those with ordinary wheels others are made so that the little animal draws up his own food so that he-has an aim to his work. Large cages with ladders ropes (or rather thick twine) and other contrivances are sometimes used and the mice are shown off to great advantage in them.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.