New Hampshire shelter faces ‘enormous’ breeding problem

‘Overrun by rodents’: N.H. shelter begins adoptions after receiving over 800 mice and rats
Staff expects it will take a long time to find families for all of the animals. But, experts said, it likely didn’t take the mice long to multiply given just how quickly they reproduce.
Man overwhelmed by pet mice breeding rate gives nearly 1,000 rodents to New Hampshire shelter
When a man arrived at a New Hampshire animal shelter last week claiming he wanted to surrender 150 pet mice, the shelter was ready to take them in.
New Hampshire shelter faces ‘enormous’ breeding problem after man surrenders nearly 1,000 mice
When an overwhelmed man came to a New Hampshire animal shelter last week hoping to surrender 150 mice, shelter employees were ready to assist. He later clarified he had 150 containers of mice.
Animal shelter faces enor-mouse problem after man surrenders nearly 1,000 rodents
A group of mice is called a nest, but what do you call 1,000 of them in on? “Crippling,” said Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is scrambling to care for an overwhelming influx of rapidly reproducing rodents.
New Hampshire shelter faces enor-mouse problem after man surrenders nearly 1,000 rodents
"Even in the short time that we've had them, many of these mice have given birth," Lisa Dennison said. "It's an exponential problem that keeps growing."
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