Talk:Fancy mouse

message: I have edited the part of the page that referred to a "different process of natural selection operating in tame mice than in their wild cousins" or something to that point. Obviously, natural selection - -selection by the blind forces of nature -- operates on wild animals. However, people breeding different colours and patterns of mice according to their own preferences does not constitute any form of 'natural selection'. This is 'artificial selection', and it has absolutely nothing to do with the 'survival of the fittest'; rather, it refers to the 'selective reproduction of the prettiest' - Tanuchenka.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.190.200 (talk) 16:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article 

message: I have proposed the creation of Wikiproject Pocket pets, if interested, please visit the proposal page. thanks! VanTucky 05:05, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject 

message: ... mice can be given newspaper for nesting, as the ink is soy based and nontoxic
I'm a little uncomfortable with this steaatement -- are you sure it applies everywhere? Or just where you buy your local? --Jquarry 09:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This would be OR, so I've never included it, but my vet says that all US newspapers are safe.  youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newspaper bedding 

message: I have found that pet mice have an incredibly low tolerance to radiation and microwaves (Energy). Even the bi product Radiation from a microwave oven can kill one (over time and in close proximity). Keep away from any source above background radiation.  --Grand Whilhuff Moff Tarkin (talk) 01:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Radiation weakness

message: picking up a mouse is best done by grabbing the base of its tail, and not by grabbing its central body mass. They're small and fragile animals; doing this can cause internal organ damage or other injury. This should be fixed.
: The tone of that section reads like a website with advice on mouse ownership, not like an encyclopedia. It needs a major overhaul. Moderatelyaverage (talk) 18:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: picking up a mouse

message: "Lowering your hand into the cage with food on your fingertips will intimidate the mouse to bite you. Soon they will get more and more social. After a while, your mouse thinks of your hand as the safest place, and will easily climb into it whether there is food on it or not."
Seriously?
This doesn't strike me as an encyclopaedic article. It does however strike me as a show and tell piece. 82.95.25.120 (talk) 15:45, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. It needs some extensive reworking. Moderatelyaverage (talk) 18:09, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

text: That is the way they show their behaviour. As you buy young mice, they rather "pinch" than bite. After a time, the mice no longer "pinch" or bite. --95.116.66.110 (talk) 12:18, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handling 

message: This needs a list of varieties or breeds (if reliable secondary sources identify them as actual breeds), under a heading or subheading such as ==Varieties==, and including sourced descriptive information about the varieties, possibly also summaries of show/breed standards for them if such exist.
After this, the following should redirect to that section: Mouse varieties, fancy mouse varieties, Mouse breeds, Fancy mouse breeds, List of mouse varieties, List of fancy mouse varieties, List of mouse breeds, List of fancy mouse breeds. Each of those should be tagged with , and all those referring to breeds also tagged with  unless their status as standardized breeds is reliably sourceable after all.  List of mouse varieties should be further tagged with , and later developed into a list of these pet varieties, and (in their own section) laboratory strains (several of which we have articles on, in :Category:Laboratory mouse breeds.  Breed#Domestic animal breeds should be updated to include this list.  If someone will do the first part and source a list of fancy mouse varieties, I'll be glad to take care of all the rest.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  15:20, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious missing information: varieties 

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Mice are naturally cautious of rats, who may kill and consume them. This mice behaviour is known as muricide (cf. Muricidal test).[8]
shouldn't that read "This rat behaviour is known as muricide..."
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-rudyard (talk) 21:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct definition of muricide? 

message: It’s amazing Ac!d B0n3z (talk) 07:22, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I love the wording “fancy mouse” 

message: No reason for two articles. What little info is here can easily be incorporated into main article. UtherSRG (talk) 17:39, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose. Laboratory mice may also be Mus musculus domesticus, and the article on the Japanese house mouse mentions that there are fancy and laboratory breeds of that supposed subspecies (it is apparently a hybrid between the other two widely recognized subspecies). This article mentions early history of mice as pets in China and, and breeding efforts in Europe that involved mice imported from Japan. "Domesticus" presumably refers to the houses that house mice inhabit, not to any status as a domesticated animal (and laboratory mice are just as much domesticated). This article should not have a taxobox (fancy mouse encompasses several breeds, so a breed infobox wouldn't be appropriate either). Merging M. m. domesticus to house mouse is a better option than merging here if it is going to be merged. Plantdrew (talk) 21:02, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh! You're right. I was coming from a different angle and missed the other articles. - UtherSRG (talk) 00:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

text: Closing, with no merge, as the proposer has withdrawn their support. Klbrain (talk) 11:40, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Mus musculus domesticus]] into [[Fancy mouse]]