Information &
Facts about Mice
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Mouse Facts
By: Huey & Dewey (our pet Guinea Pigs)
1. Mice are found all over the world, but their name comes
from an ancient word in Sanskrit, "mus," that means "thief."
If you live where there are wild mice, you know how they got
their name.
2. Another name for the ancient Greek god Apollo was Apollo
Smintheus, which means Apollo the Mouse. To honor him, white
mice were kept under the altar in his temples.
3. Some ancient cultures had great respect for mice.
Egyptians used a cooked mouse to cure a variety of illnesses
including stomach aches.
4. Even today some people believe that eating mouse pie or
fried mice is a cure for bedwetting! It should be a cure for
something!
5. Many types of mice have tails that are as long as their
bodies. They use their tails for balancing bars and for
helping them to navigate in the dark, among other things.
6. Some mice don't have any hair at all. They were
originally bred to help in cancer research, but some people
like them as pets now too.
7. A female mouse is called a doe.
8. A male mouse is called a buck.
9. A baby mouse is called a pinky or a kitten. They are born
naked so their skin looks pink, and their eyes are sealed
shut, and they are about the size of a child's "pinky
finger," which may be how that finger got that name, we
don't know.
10. Never pick a mouse up by its tail. You can grab the base
of the tail near its body with one hand while supporting its
feet with the other, but don't hang it by the end of its
tail, it can break the tail.
11. The average mouse lives only one to two years.
12. A full-grown mouse weighs less than an ounce (twenty-
eight grams).
13. Mickey Mouse was born in 1928.
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