Rather often mice, rabbits and other small rodents are got for the child. Parents need to be ready to the fact that the female of such animal can eat posterity. It is necessary to try to avoid a similar situation not to upset the son or the daughter.
The cannibalism, or eating of weak individuals and cubs, is rather widespread in fauna and especially often occurs among rodents. If the owner of a guinea pig, decorative rat or mouse never faced similar, then he can be shocked with the fact that as soon as the female resolved from a burden eats the cubs. Why it can occur?
Why mice eat the cubs
Gerbils, chipmunks, rats, mice, guinea pigs and other small animals can carry out the act of cannibalism concerning the kids for a number of reasons. The most widespread of them is a stress at a female. Especially often it occurs in females after the first pregnancy. It can be constantly strained and in case in one cage with it and a cub there is a male all the time disturbing them or if people give it and her kids special attention. It is possible to prevent eating up of cubs, having put a cage with mother and her posterity to the quiet and lonely place; at the same time it is the best of all to settle out a male temporarily in other cage or an aquarium.Other reasons for which the mouse eats posterity it is a laying, improper for a nest, constant noise, a new cage or impossibility to hide from public eyes. If tiny little mice, especially aged up to 10 days, the person picked up, then mother ceases to perceive them as cubs and most likely will eat them. Exclude all these risk factors, and then the posterity for certain will manage to be kept.
What to do if mice ate posterity, despite all precautionary measures
Sometimes the female can eat the posterity without any visible reasons for similar aggression. The owner of a mouse should know that sometimes rodents really can unjustly carry out the act of cannibalism. Actually the reason is always, but not in all cases it can be obvious to the person. For example, the nature programmed the mechanism of eating up by mother of "excess" cubs in case they were born too much, and it has not enough forces to bring up all newborns. Besides, someone from little little mice can be weak and impractical. Instinctively feeling it, the female eats such posterity not to start up a sickly and painful individual in the world. That is the nature can regulate the number and the qualitative structure of families of these rodents. For certain the following dung of little mice will be healthier, and they will manage to be kept.