@BTowersCoding I was quite impressed you kept the mice, as I have set traps in past but felt bad / wanted a solution. So wondered *if you let them mate* then surely get overcrowded easily / quickly... ?
Like having small Civ simulation happening in real life...!
And then what did you do with them after (or you still have them?!) :)
( The YoutTube text below as reminder: )
Many years ago I lived in this old farm house and we would occasionally get mice in the house. Not wanting to kill them, I built them a cage and kept them as pets. They had a little hamster wheel and sip bottle, had babies, and we would play music and sing for them. One night we were doing a group improv music night and wrote a song about the mice. But it was a metaphor, you see, and it was really about ourselves. The main theme was written by me on guitar straight off the cuff, and the song instantly became a weekly favorite during our house jams and continued to evolve over the years... decades, actually.
@freeschool It was actually a failed experiment, making it a rather sad song... I think that's exactly what the problem was - overcrowding. After the second litter was born they kind of... destroyed themselves. Perhaps if I'd moved them into a bigger cage? I don't know, it could just be a futile endeavor...