inulro | Mr. Mouse RIP

What the title says.

Mr. Mouse started being non-specifically unwell a couple weeks back. With small rodents, the first sign is that they start sleeping in the wrong place. This is usually terribly cute, but it's still a bad sign. With Mr Mouse, first it was his dish, then his wheel. Then they get a characteristic hunched-up posture.

In the case of mice, the next step is that they start to scratch incessantly like they have mites[1], which makes them very miserable little characters indeed. He was obviously pretty distressed despite still being lively and interested in his surroundings, so unfortunately he had to go on a one-way trip to the vet. I didn't notice till we got him in there that he'd also lost some weight.

We didn't have him long, but he was a very sweet little character who quite quickly went from being very scared of us to very tame & friendly (even after the incident with the kitten). He will be missed.

[1] The vet just told me that most of the time it's not actually mites, but some weird systemic thing that makes them itch.