by Heather Fieldhouse <bunnyhugger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 16, 2007 at 04:15 PM
In article <1173924416.561602.189300@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"shadow" <shadowx3707@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> is it safe to keep the baby even tho the father was a wild rodent? can
> it be infected with anything like rabies?
If someone your mouse was impregnated by a wild mouse, the likely result
will be some agouti (brown) babies. I had some hybrid wild/domestic
mice a while back, and they were a little "wilder" than my domestic
mice, but not by much.
It is almost unheard of for mice and other small rodents to have rabies.
The CDC (see http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/ques&ans/q&a.htm
)
says that mice are not considered a rabies risk unless they are acting
strangely.
Heather
