New Hampshire shelter faces enor-mouse problem after receiving 1,000 rapidly reproducing rodents
A group of mice is called a nest, but what do you call 1,000 of them in one animal shelter? “Crippling,” said Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire SPCA, which is scrambling to care for an overwhelming influx of rapidly reproducing rodents.
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Female mice are sexually mature at roughly 6 weeks old, gestation lasts about 20 days, and they can mate again 24 hours later.
