It's nice to know what this is called! Last year, my mouse had this happen to her while I was at work, and I was very lucky to have my roommate find her and spend hours nursing her back to health. These are really good tips on what to do, and I feel a lot more capable if I ever experience this again.
Poor little Pearl! I'm so glad she's okay now because she is such a sweet little girl and cute little fluffball! Although I don't have mice, I appreciate this information.
I'm soo glad she's ok ! I'm a mouse owner and didn't know about this, so thank you so much 💕 I know how hard it is to lose a pet, so I'm super happy that's she's all safe and sound 💕
I knew about torpor but not a whole lot on how to treat it other than just warming the mouse up, so this was very informative. I don't live in an especially cold area but this made me paranoid so I shredded up some extra tissue for my girls. This must've been a super scary experience, though! Thankfully my girls are all so noisy at this time of night that I can easily see that they're all awake :)
my mouse is normally very active and i hadnt seen her in a few hours and i got worried and she was really floppy and cold and i thought she had passed but i rememberd this video i watched when i was researching about mice and i have warmed her up in a little sock and have been holding her with my body heat and she is now running up my arm but im going to keep her here to check if shes okay thank you so much i know you said its a video you didnt like making but it actually helped me so much x :)
Awesome video!💕 when a mouse of mine got torpor I made a “hot water bottle” by filling a sock with rice, tying the end, and putting it in the microwave for 20-30 seconds
Yes, you can be a good mouse owner still have these issues. Good video. The sun helps to if not cold outside. If inside, stand by a heated window that has 🌞 Rub her between your hands and a blanket... there's a few ways...even warm water but start off with room temperature lol u just said it..
So glad she recovered well and is okay! It's great that more people are addressing the issue of torpor, I once lost a mouse to it, and I just wish I was aware of what torpor was at the time to be able to save her. Thanks for making this video!
My mouse was acting very slow, and was shivering. I had heard of torpors before so I watched this video, halfway through I realized my mouse likely was experiencing torpors. I used info from this video, and after about an hour or so he started to act more like himself again! Main take away from this video was he needed some warmer bedding, and warmer water (apples help too) Thank you so much for making this video, it may have saved my Olie's life!
I know this video is older but thank you! I was so scared for my Julieta this morning, but I found your video as I was trying to warm her up and found out that’s exactly what it was! It only took me thankfully about an hour or so to get her back to normal and ferociously eating some eggs with her sisters but it was so scary as I’ve only just got them! Thanks so much!
This video saved my hamsters life thank you for making this and sharing your experience I’ll send this to my friends with mice + hamsters so they have this if they need it in the future ❤️
I just want to say thank you so much! I just found my mouse with early signs of going into torpor, I recognised what was happening because I'd watched this video, and managed to warm him up before things got any worse! Thank you for sharing info that saved my mouse Felix's life! 💞💞💞
Omg. I'm a hamster owner and recently bought my first ever mouse on a whim and after 2 weeks this happened to him and I really thought he was about to die so I wanted to make his last moment s as comfortable as possible so I put him on a soft tiny bed I knitted and put that on top of a heating pad in my warm bedroom with an air cleaner and he ended up being fine. I was so confused by this cause I never had a single hamster act like that but thanks to your channel I'm learning proper mouse care and will have him stay in my room. (My bedroom is the warmest place in the house. The rest of the house is cold) ever since that happened about a week or 2 ago he now is my little baby (along with my 2 hamsters of course) and earned the name Arty and seems to respond to it. I love my son💙💙💙
@emiology you literally helped save my girls’ lives today! I would have had no idea what torpor was without watching your videos. It was very scary, but they are on the way to feeling like themselves again. Thank you so much! I can’t thank you enough!
This is actually just good advice for any small animal in a hypothermic state. I foster kittens and take care of a semi feral colony, and most of this rings pretty true for neonates.
I’ve been watching your channel for a while now, you really sparked a inspiration for rats in me and I’ve already talked to people who used to hate rats and changed their mindsets. I’ve also strongly recommended your channel to them and their watching it now. Thank you so much for all you do! Love you!!🥰🥰
I found my mouse looking like yours did in the picture I had no idea if she was dying or what cause she is old I picked her up to see if I could warm her up and it worked 💙 she’s now back to her crazy self so you actually saved her by making this video as I saw it awhile ago so thank you 😊
People would be surprised at how attached you can get to a tiny little animals. Mice are so cute and active; you can really miss them when they're gone.
My mouse died from torpor not long ago this winter and my heart is still broken. Had dealt with it in the past and did each step here but decided to take him to the vet when he didn’t improve. But sadly he didn’t make it. I still feel so guilty. Thank you for this video that will probably save many mice
Good thing she is okay again, and thanks for a great and informative video. Even though I've learned of torpor before from ErinsAnimals, this is an important thing to know when owning small animals, so it's nice to see another good video on the subject!
I’m so very glad that I watched this video! The same thing just happened to my boy and I knew to act immediately! He’s currently warming up and is being moved to a warmer area
ok, are there any other old retired guys on here who for whatever reason have become the caretaker of a mouse or mice and are now devouring everything they can find to care for their really fascinating little friends
thank you so much for this video!!! my mouse just entered torpor and i got him in enough time, your video helped mw so much with nursing him back to health!
Thanks a lot for this. My gas heating switched off in the night and I had to deal with 3 of my 4 mice in torpor at 3am last night, extremely stressful. I didn't figure out that they were going through torpor until afterward when I was trying to research what had happened to them and came across this video. Very luckily I seem to have instinctively done basically everything you said to do in the scenario and they were all back feeling normal in about 45 mins of cuddling and feeding. Set up an electric heater near their cage for night times now and given them way more bedding too. Thanks so much for this video, it really put me at ease after a huge panic attack dealing with what I thought was 3 of my mice dying at the same time!
I found this video while trying to figure out what happened to one of my mice during the night. He had these exact symptoms. Luckily I woke up and found him in time to warm him back up. I wrapped him in fleece in his carrier, and placed him on a heating pad. He recovered aftef a few hours. Thank you for posting this.
I found my mouse (Yuki) last night still and cold and I gave him some honey bread as I only knew he need his energy. I thought he wasn't going make it the night so I woke up this morning and yukiwas worse, I put him in my shirt to try and warm him up but he did look like he was getting better, so I started to search for solutions on TH-cam and google, I searched for most of the morning and I was starting to feel like yuki was going to pass away, until I saw your video thumbnail and so I followed everything you did and I boiled some zucchini, Yukithen started to walk around and eat i was so happy and now I'm just waiting for him to fully recover. Thank you for posting this video.
I'm so glad i found this video, it happened to my mouse few months ago, he was keeping his eyes shut, was trying to eat in a very weird/slow manner, and I was able to keep him in my hand and to pet him, which was unusual (he's a very active male who doesn't like to be petted) it was late so I called the emergency vet but she refused to see us because the tought it was unresponsible to spend 250 euros (i'm french) for an "animal who weight 20 grams" and she simply proposed to euthanize him... I fed him with applesauce, kept him warm in my hand and gave him water, fortunately he came back to his active and normal self and it never happened again. At least i know what it was now, thank you !
In winter we sometimes give our gerbil Topas the oportunity to warm himself on a special lamp. He loves it and is so relaxed afterwards 😍 But it's always good to know what to do in such cases...
Our apartment is always BOILING because were surrounded in every direction with people who also put their heating on at different times. Good for our energy bill though won't complain. However, the past week omg its so freezing I can understand how your house might have been a little colder than normal, I believe it was the coldest day since 2012 the other day. Thanks for the video, I don't have mice (so haven't done the research) but might have assumed they were dying and taken them out into the cold to go to the vets. Would have been so much worse!
I’m still getting used to heating our house and finding a good medium between me getting too hot and the house not being cold, our downstairs bathroom is boiling but upstairs tends to get colder but it’s a lot warmer now! I’m surprised I haven’t been asked why I didn’t take her to a vet yet, despite them probably doing a similar thing to what I did, I can’t imagine having to take her out into the cold, into a cold car and drive the 30 minutes to the vets without a heat source for her 😩
my poor mouse went through this today, i didn't know what it was but it had happened before. we warmed him up and he's fine now, running around like usual. there were a few moments when i thought he had died.. your video is the only one i could find on this subject. also i don't know if you have male mice, but mines ball's shrunk. (back to their former glory now lol). thanks for this vid!!
Oh wow this happened to two of my mice and I got terrified, I stayed up for hours hugging them in my hands and slowly fed them soggy spinach and that worked but it really shook me up
Luckily i already knew of torpor because i just managed to catch one of my boys going into torpor 😢 strangely though, he went onto his "give me attention/snackos" perch, so i think he knew if i saw him that id take care of him? (Because every time i see him on that perch ill either scoop him up or give him a treat) since hes just about 2 years old i assumed it was normal ageing taking its toll, but as i was holding him and softly petting him, he got enough energy to crawl into my sleeve and got super warmed up in there and came out, not exactly good as new but way better shape than he was in before! I didnt know that the soft petting was actually something that helped until i just now watched this so i could get follow-up care figured out so im really glad i basically did exactly what needed go be done without wven knowing it! He still doesnt have an appetite though, and i cant get him to srink, so im gonna go source a tiny syringe now to make the water solution mentioned in the video
Yikes! I am so glad I came across this video. Because of medication I take for cancer, I am always hot so I have my house temperature set at 63 degrees (17.22 Celsius). I recently captured a wild field mouse and just assumed that she was acclimated to the cold as it is often lower temperature than that outside. And while it is possible that she can withstand the cold, I just added more tissue to her hide and covered it with tin foil, to reflect her heat back to her, to be on the safe side. I hope to set up her new Prevue 528 cage tomorrow which will give her much more substrate to bury herself in if she does get cold.
My Male mouse Jasper went into the stage of torpor 4 times, the 3rd time he was literally dead, I took a day off school in hopes I could bring him back, and lucky enough, I DID! I was so overjoyed and after the 4th time it happened I brought hil everywhere and at night gave him a heat mat. He really tamed up in that time too, I would put my hand almost a meter above the cage and he'd jump right on. He also had 1 litter of babies with one of my females. I still have those babies but Japser is no longer with me. He passed away at about 2 and a half years🤞💖
On super cold nights I'd give my rats (and mice, which weren't looked after and had this happen, small bar cage and no bedding, so I took em), rice bags that were heated a little in the microwave. Usually a fabric so if they chewed it wouldn't hurt them! They loved it!
i know i’m like two years late but i plan on getting a mouse very soon so i am binge watching your videos on mice. i am glad that i know understand what torpor is now. i hope this never happens to me but i am now more prepared if it does happen. my question for you or for anyone is how do you know if it is torpor, or if it just just their time to pass on?
I own 6 rats and those are usually scared rats just don't get them out and d9nt pick her/him up unless they come to you other them natural yogurt on a spoon and rub your hands on the bedding
Sit by the opening of their cage and talk to them in a soft voice. Offer healthy snacks like whole wheat dried bread pieces, fruits or veggies (check what’s safe for rats), millet, yogurt, scrambled eggs with the shell, and your hands to smell when they come near. When/if they start coming to you or venturing out of the cage put them inside your sweatshirt between the sweater and another shirt (they have sharp nails). This will help them recognize that you are safe, warm and trustworthy. It takes time to grow a bond with rats, especially those from a pet store where they don’t get much attention.
It took almost 3 months for me to be able to pick up my rats but what really helped was having them crawl into hoodies/blankets. My most skittish one loves burrowing in soft materials and such and it was a way to get them to come out of their cage and spend time with me without it being stressful!
SO glad I found this video, my mouse suddenly did the same thing and I didn’t know what to do so just kept dipping my finger in water and he’d lick my finger. I had him in bundled in my jumper before I found this video and he’s much better but still shaky on his feet. Off to make up a hot water bottle and water solution
i have actually never heard of mice going through torpor, but since i’ve watched videos about torpor in hamsters, i assumed it could happen to most rodents, so i’ve been trying to keep my mouse as warm as possible. i give him tons of shredded toilet paper, and i try to keep him as comfortable as i possibly can. thankfully he’s never gone into torpor, even though it’s quite cold in my room most of the time. he sleeps under 6 inches of bedding and toilet paper (and he likes to sleep on top of his food😂)
This happened to my rat once. I didn't know what torpor was, but i remember feeling my rat and being alarmed at how cold she was. I warmed her up with towels and and a hair dryer. She was okay in the end.
thank you so much ive been rubbing my mouse softl for the night and putting her in my shirt i was scared she wasnt going to make it as i didnt know what i was doing but thanks to you i do x
For what its worth I'm living in Auckland New Zealand and its mid Summer 28 degrees and 95 % humidity in February so I am having the opposite problem - keeping my mice cool and watered
My rats’ favorite nest in the winter is big pouches with sewn together layers of fleece and fabric and then they just chomp their way into the middle and pull in all the hay and bedding they want lol. They started doing it with the fleece liners and I decided it was easier to cater to it than to get them to stop going under the liners
Thank you my mouse this morning I woke up and she was in tempor she is doing a bit better now because of this video but hopefully she gets better in the next hour
Thank you for posting this video! My mouse has torpor right now and your helping me save him! EDIT: despite my efforts cheese whiz didn't make it through the night and died this morning.
This video was extremely helpful! I just now realized this happened to my old mouse. I thought she was dead at the time ): so I unfortunately was unable to save her.
This happened the very first night with my mouse. We ordered a cage but we had to wait a day so I took our biggest Tupperware and put alot of air holes in it with a knife but I guess they were too thin and wasn’t letting enough air in cause he seemed fine right before we went to sleep but the next morning he was dead. I thought he was definitely dead at least because he was freezing and not even his belly looked like it was moving. For some reason my first instinct was to hold him in my hand and kind of hug him with it and I was very sad I was tearing up a little because I thought I accidentally killed my mouse. But his belly started moving so I warmed him up more with my breath and his breath kept moving faster and faster an his eyes half opened and he started drunkenly walking around really slow until he got faster and faster until he was eventually normal. This all happened so fast it couldn’t have been more than 10 minutes tops but it felt even shorter than that. I’m so glad I didn’t just bury him. I think it increased our bond too because the first night he didn’t like being held but after this he’s been really comfortable with being in my hands and he trusts me now. In his mind, he doesn’t realize I accidentally almost killed him, I feel so stupid.
Thankfully she has a good mum and is okay 🥰
Omg I didn't think I'd see you in her comments I watch you vids all the time even though I have 5 mice
@@aurorarita810 Of course you can. They are best friends:)
My mouse died today😫😭
It's nice to know what this is called! Last year, my mouse had this happen to her while I was at work, and I was very lucky to have my roommate find her and spend hours nursing her back to health. These are really good tips on what to do, and I feel a lot more capable if I ever experience this again.
Poor little Pearl! I'm so glad she's okay now because she is such a sweet little girl and cute little fluffball! Although I don't have mice, I appreciate this information.
I'm soo glad she's ok ! I'm a mouse owner and didn't know about this, so thank you so much 💕 I know how hard it is to lose a pet, so I'm super happy that's she's all safe and sound 💕
I am too
I knew about torpor but not a whole lot on how to treat it other than just warming the mouse up, so this was very informative. I don't live in an especially cold area but this made me paranoid so I shredded up some extra tissue for my girls. This must've been a super scary experience, though! Thankfully my girls are all so noisy at this time of night that I can easily see that they're all awake :)
my mouse is normally very active and i hadnt seen her in a few hours and i got worried and she was really floppy and cold and i thought she had passed but i rememberd this video i watched when i was researching about mice and i have warmed her up in a little sock and have been holding her with my body heat and she is now running up my arm but im going to keep her here to check if shes okay thank you so much i know you said its a video you didnt like making but it actually helped me so much x :)
Awesome video!💕 when a mouse of mine got torpor I made a “hot water bottle” by filling a sock with rice, tying the end, and putting it in the microwave for 20-30 seconds
This video seriously saved my mouses life.
Must have been a scary experience. Good on you for sharing it 💕 glad to hear she’s doing better
Yes, you can be a good mouse owner still have these issues. Good video. The sun helps to if not cold outside. If inside, stand by a heated window that has 🌞 Rub her between your hands and a blanket... there's a few ways...even warm water but start off with room temperature lol u just said it..
So glad she recovered well and is okay! It's great that more people are addressing the issue of torpor, I once lost a mouse to it, and I just wish I was aware of what torpor was at the time to be able to save her. Thanks for making this video!
My mouse was acting very slow, and was shivering. I had heard of torpors before so I watched this video, halfway through I realized my mouse likely was experiencing torpors. I used info from this video, and after about an hour or so he started to act more like himself again!
Main take away from this video was he needed some warmer bedding, and warmer water (apples help too)
Thank you so much for making this video, it may have saved my Olie's life!
I know this video is older but thank you! I was so scared for my Julieta this morning, but I found your video as I was trying to warm her up and found out that’s exactly what it was! It only took me thankfully about an hour or so to get her back to normal and ferociously eating some eggs with her sisters but it was so scary as I’ve only just got them!
Thanks so much!
Thank you so so much! You helped my lil baby big time today❤
This video saved my hamsters life thank you for making this and sharing your experience I’ll send this to my friends with mice + hamsters so they have this if they need it in the future ❤️
This just saved my little mouse’s life thank you so so much, she’s back to running around and being her cheeky little self as I’m writing this!!
This was so helpful! Very informative, and something I knew nothing about. I’m a new mouse owner, so this was new info to me. Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad you noticed something was wrong and sought advice on time to help her. She is my favourite of your little micies
I just want to say thank you so much! I just found my mouse with early signs of going into torpor, I recognised what was happening because I'd watched this video, and managed to warm him up before things got any worse! Thank you for sharing info that saved my mouse Felix's life! 💞💞💞
I’m glad he’s okay!
Omg. I'm a hamster owner and recently bought my first ever mouse on a whim and after 2 weeks this happened to him and I really thought he was about to die so I wanted to make his last moment s as comfortable as possible so I put him on a soft tiny bed I knitted and put that on top of a heating pad in my warm bedroom with an air cleaner and he ended up being fine. I was so confused by this cause I never had a single hamster act like that but thanks to your channel I'm learning proper mouse care and will have him stay in my room. (My bedroom is the warmest place in the house. The rest of the house is cold) ever since that happened about a week or 2 ago he now is my little baby (along with my 2 hamsters of course) and earned the name Arty and seems to respond to it. I love my son💙💙💙
Thanks for making this video. This is definitely something all mouse owners should know about. Glad Pearl's okay :)
I lost a mouse to torpor, and had absolutely no clue what it was. Thank you for this video~I hope more owners can be aware now!
@emiology you literally helped save my girls’ lives today! I would have had no idea what torpor was without watching your videos. It was very scary, but they are on the way to feeling like themselves again. Thank you so much! I can’t thank you enough!
Thank you for making the hard videos so we can all learn. 💗
thank you so much for this, my mouse is currently in torpor and he’s getting better because of this!
Ty for this it's very good that she is okay!
This is actually just good advice for any small animal in a hypothermic state. I foster kittens and take care of a semi feral colony, and most of this rings pretty true for neonates.
I’ve been watching your channel for a while now, you really sparked a inspiration for rats in me and I’ve already talked to people who used to hate rats and changed their mindsets. I’ve also strongly recommended your channel to them and their watching it now. Thank you so much for all you do! Love you!!🥰🥰
I found my mouse looking like yours did in the picture I had no idea if she was dying or what cause she is old I picked her up to see if I could warm her up and it worked 💙 she’s now back to her crazy self so you actually saved her by making this video as I saw it awhile ago so thank you 😊
Super relieved that she's okay, what a scary time for you all :( Glad things turned out okay!
People would be surprised at how attached you can get to a tiny little animals. Mice are so cute and active; you can really miss them when they're gone.
My mouse died from torpor not long ago this winter and my heart is still broken. Had dealt with it in the past and did each step here but decided to take him to the vet when he didn’t improve. But sadly he didn’t make it. I still feel so guilty. Thank you for this video that will probably save many mice
I’m so sorry that he didn’t make it, don’t blame yourself sometimes even when you do everything they still slip into it 💕
Emiology thank you so much💗
Good thing she is okay again, and thanks for a great and informative video. Even though I've learned of torpor before from ErinsAnimals, this is an important thing to know when owning small animals, so it's nice to see another good video on the subject!
Unconscious but still eating. MOOD🤣
I’m so very glad that I watched this video! The same thing just happened to my boy and I knew to act immediately! He’s currently warming up and is being moved to a warmer area
I just woke up to see my baby Glue like this, my heart BROKE! Thanks for the info and for the tips, she's doing much better now!
ok, are there any other old retired guys on here who for whatever reason have become the caretaker of a mouse or mice and are now devouring everything they can find to care for their really fascinating little friends
thank you so much for this video!!! my mouse just entered torpor and i got him in enough time, your video helped mw so much with nursing him back to health!
Scary. But i am happy to see she is doing okay now. You are such a good mom to your pets :)
Thanks a lot for this. My gas heating switched off in the night and I had to deal with 3 of my 4 mice in torpor at 3am last night, extremely stressful. I didn't figure out that they were going through torpor until afterward when I was trying to research what had happened to them and came across this video. Very luckily I seem to have instinctively done basically everything you said to do in the scenario and they were all back feeling normal in about 45 mins of cuddling and feeding. Set up an electric heater near their cage for night times now and given them way more bedding too. Thanks so much for this video, it really put me at ease after a huge panic attack dealing with what I thought was 3 of my mice dying at the same time!
Glad she is okay. ❤️ The detolf is also looking amazing!
I found this video while trying to figure out what happened to one of my mice during the night. He had these exact symptoms. Luckily I woke up and found him in time to warm him back up. I wrapped him in fleece in his carrier, and placed him on a heating pad. He recovered aftef a few hours.
Thank you for posting this.
Go Pearl. You are amazing
Oh, ohhh thank goodness. That explains why Minnie seemed to go from actively dying to perked up overnight with just a mandarin orange slice
I found my mouse (Yuki) last night still and cold and I gave him some honey bread as I only knew he need his energy. I thought he wasn't going make it the night so I woke up this morning and yukiwas worse, I put him in my shirt to try and warm him up but he did look like he was getting better, so I started to search for solutions on TH-cam and google, I searched for most of the morning and I was starting to feel like yuki was going to pass away, until I saw your video thumbnail and so I followed everything you did and I boiled some zucchini, Yukithen started to walk around and eat i was so happy and now I'm just waiting for him to fully recover. Thank you for posting this video.
This video saved my mouse's life this morning. Shushu and I say THANK YOU!!!
thank you so much for posting this video this happened to me yesterday and this video really helped.
💕Aw, so glad she’s ok!💕
You are very good with mice🥰
I'm so glad i found this video, it happened to my mouse few months ago, he was keeping his eyes shut, was trying to eat in a very weird/slow manner, and I was able to keep him in my hand and to pet him, which was unusual (he's a very active male who doesn't like to be petted) it was late so I called the emergency vet but she refused to see us because the tought it was unresponsible to spend 250 euros (i'm french) for an "animal who weight 20 grams" and she simply proposed to euthanize him... I fed him with applesauce, kept him warm in my hand and gave him water, fortunately he came back to his active and normal self and it never happened again. At least i know what it was now, thank you !
A pet is a part of your life, but to a pet, you are the world and beyond
You are such a freaking good person❤️
So glad we have good double windows and a proper central heating! :O
We do too but it still happens
In winter we sometimes give our gerbil Topas the oportunity to warm himself on a special lamp. He loves it and is so relaxed afterwards 😍
But it's always good to know what to do in such cases...
I'm so glad she's ok :) One of my sugar gliders went through this last winter and it scared me to death lol
Hopefully it doesn't happen again. You did good and you saved her.☺ you're such a good owner
Our apartment is always BOILING because were surrounded in every direction with people who also put their heating on at different times. Good for our energy bill though won't complain. However, the past week omg its so freezing I can understand how your house might have been a little colder than normal, I believe it was the coldest day since 2012 the other day. Thanks for the video, I don't have mice (so haven't done the research) but might have assumed they were dying and taken them out into the cold to go to the vets. Would have been so much worse!
I’m still getting used to heating our house and finding a good medium between me getting too hot and the house not being cold, our downstairs bathroom is boiling but upstairs tends to get colder but it’s a lot warmer now! I’m surprised I haven’t been asked why I didn’t take her to a vet yet, despite them probably doing a similar thing to what I did, I can’t imagine having to take her out into the cold, into a cold car and drive the 30 minutes to the vets without a heat source for her 😩
my poor mouse went through this today, i didn't know what it was but it had happened before. we warmed him up and he's fine now, running around like usual. there were a few moments when i thought he had died.. your video is the only one i could find on this subject. also i don't know if you have male mice, but mines ball's shrunk. (back to their former glory now lol). thanks for this vid!!
that is such a cool mouse tank, sorry about pearl
Oh no how terrifying 😖, glad Pearl is ok 👌🏻!
Thank you so much for this advice, we have two little mice and this advice has been brilliant
I wish I could’ve seen this video 2 days ago when my mouse entered this state, luckily he’s better now but this is very helpful
Oh wow this happened to two of my mice and I got terrified, I stayed up for hours hugging them in my hands and slowly fed them soggy spinach and that worked but it really shook me up
Thank you for sharing this important information. I heard earlyer before about torpor but i didnt knew that they could die because of it.
Luckily i already knew of torpor because i just managed to catch one of my boys going into torpor 😢 strangely though, he went onto his "give me attention/snackos" perch, so i think he knew if i saw him that id take care of him? (Because every time i see him on that perch ill either scoop him up or give him a treat) since hes just about 2 years old i assumed it was normal ageing taking its toll, but as i was holding him and softly petting him, he got enough energy to crawl into my sleeve and got super warmed up in there and came out, not exactly good as new but way better shape than he was in before! I didnt know that the soft petting was actually something that helped until i just now watched this so i could get follow-up care figured out so im really glad i basically did exactly what needed go be done without wven knowing it! He still doesnt have an appetite though, and i cant get him to srink, so im gonna go source a tiny syringe now to make the water solution mentioned in the video
Thank you
Poor pearl! Hope it never happens again💕
Thank gosh she’s okay...💕🐁
Yikes! I am so glad I came across this video. Because of medication I take for cancer, I am always hot so I have my house temperature set at 63 degrees (17.22 Celsius). I recently captured a wild field mouse and just assumed that she was acclimated to the cold as it is often lower temperature than that outside. And while it is possible that she can withstand the cold, I just added more tissue to her hide and covered it with tin foil, to reflect her heat back to her, to be on the safe side. I hope to set up her new Prevue 528 cage tomorrow which will give her much more substrate to bury herself in if she does get cold.
Your mice have an amazing mom.
This video helped one of my mice survive one had already passed but one of mine survived cuz of this thanks so much thanks 🙏
This is good to know. I just recently got a mouse and it gets super cold in my room. ill give her lots of stuff to make a warm cozy nest!
My Male mouse Jasper went into the stage of torpor 4 times, the 3rd time he was literally dead, I took a day off school in hopes I could bring him back, and lucky enough, I DID! I was so overjoyed and after the 4th time it happened I brought hil everywhere and at night gave him a heat mat. He really tamed up in that time too, I would put my hand almost a meter above the cage and he'd jump right on. He also had 1 litter of babies with one of my females. I still have those babies but Japser is no longer with me. He passed away at about 2 and a half years🤞💖
Thank GOD 💖🙏🐾💖🐾😌💕
I love your channel and I'm so sorry :((( I hope this doesn't happen to my mouse cotton 😞💝
On super cold nights I'd give my rats (and mice, which weren't looked after and had this happen, small bar cage and no bedding, so I took em), rice bags that were heated a little in the microwave. Usually a fabric so if they chewed it wouldn't hurt them! They loved it!
So glad she's ok!
i know i’m like two years late but i plan on getting a mouse very soon so i am binge watching your videos on mice. i am glad that i know understand what torpor is now. i hope this never happens to me but i am now more prepared if it does happen. my question for you or for anyone is how do you know if it is torpor, or if it just just their time to pass on?
me: watches this video
me, 1 second later: turns up thermostat to 80
I'm so happy shes better love you!!!!
I never heard of it, thanks for sharing💕
This video helped me save my mouse
Hello I bought rats because of you! But one of my rats still won't come out the cage and is extremely fast! Do you have tips?
I own 6 rats and those are usually scared rats just don't get them out and d9nt pick her/him up unless they come to you other them natural yogurt on a spoon and rub your hands on the bedding
Okay,I'll try that
Sit by the opening of their cage and talk to them in a soft voice. Offer healthy snacks like whole wheat dried bread pieces, fruits or veggies (check what’s safe for rats), millet, yogurt, scrambled eggs with the shell, and your hands to smell when they come near. When/if they start coming to you or venturing out of the cage put them inside your sweatshirt between the sweater and another shirt (they have sharp nails). This will help them recognize that you are safe, warm and trustworthy. It takes time to grow a bond with rats, especially those from a pet store where they don’t get much attention.
Thanks but every time I try that she runs away and she's really fast and it takes about an hour to catch her
It took almost 3 months for me to be able to pick up my rats but what really helped was having them crawl into hoodies/blankets. My most skittish one loves burrowing in soft materials and such and it was a way to get them to come out of their cage and spend time with me without it being stressful!
SO glad I found this video, my mouse suddenly did the same thing and I didn’t know what to do so just kept dipping my finger in water and he’d lick my finger. I had him in bundled in my jumper before I found this video and he’s much better but still shaky on his feet. Off to make up a hot water bottle and water solution
i have actually never heard of mice going through torpor, but since i’ve watched videos about torpor in hamsters, i assumed it could happen to most rodents, so i’ve been trying to keep my mouse as warm as possible. i give him tons of shredded toilet paper, and i try to keep him as comfortable as i possibly can. thankfully he’s never gone into torpor, even though it’s quite cold in my room most of the time. he sleeps under 6 inches of bedding and toilet paper (and he likes to sleep on top of his food😂)
This happened to my rat once. I didn't know what torpor was, but i remember feeling my rat and being alarmed at how cold she was. I warmed her up with towels and and a hair dryer. She was okay in the end.
mine won’t eat or drink his eyes are open and he’s moving a bit i’m holding against my body
he’s starting to move more his spine feels really compressed like he’s hunched over
@@spiky-seeds-Update, please?
@@littleredhen2894 he ended up being ok! i reversed it and he was back to normal but he died a few months ago anyway sadly
@@spiky-seeds- Aw, I'm glad you could help him. I've had many rats myself, and like mice, their lives aren't very long...
I hope that never happens againg.so sorry❤❤
thank you so much ive been rubbing my mouse softl for the night and putting her in my shirt i was scared she wasnt going to make it as i didnt know what i was doing but thanks to you i do x
For what its worth I'm living in Auckland New Zealand and its mid Summer 28 degrees and 95 % humidity in February so I am having the opposite problem - keeping my mice cool and watered
My rats’ favorite nest in the winter is big pouches with sewn together layers of fleece and fabric and then they just chomp their way into the middle and pull in all the hay and bedding they want lol. They started doing it with the fleece liners and I decided it was easier to cater to it than to get them to stop going under the liners
Good thing you found her I know what torpor is because my mom lost her rat because of torpor
Im so glad the she made a full recovery
Thank you my mouse this morning I woke up and she was in tempor she is doing a bit better now because of this video but hopefully she gets better in the next hour
Thank you for posting this video! My mouse has torpor right now and your helping me save him! EDIT: despite my efforts cheese whiz didn't make it through the night and died this morning.
i’m sorry for your loss!
I have never experienced this with my hamsters but I always keep a close eye on them just to make sure that that's happened I know what to do
This video was extremely helpful! I just now realized this happened to my old mouse. I thought she was dead at the time ): so I unfortunately was unable to save her.
This happened the very first night with my mouse. We ordered a cage but we had to wait a day so I took our biggest Tupperware and put alot of air holes in it with a knife but I guess they were too thin and wasn’t letting enough air in cause he seemed fine right before we went to sleep but the next morning he was dead. I thought he was definitely dead at least because he was freezing and not even his belly looked like it was moving. For some reason my first instinct was to hold him in my hand and kind of hug him with it and I was very sad I was tearing up a little because I thought I accidentally killed my mouse. But his belly started moving so I warmed him up more with my breath and his breath kept moving faster and faster an his eyes half opened and he started drunkenly walking around really slow until he got faster and faster until he was eventually normal. This all happened so fast it couldn’t have been more than 10 minutes tops but it felt even shorter than that. I’m so glad I didn’t just bury him. I think it increased our bond too because the first night he didn’t like being held but after this he’s been really comfortable with being in my hands and he trusts me now. In his mind, he doesn’t realize I accidentally almost killed him, I feel so stupid.
Thank God pearl is ok
Do you happen to know if unflavored Pedialyte works with mice to rehydrate? I know it is safe for hamsters but I'm not sure with mice.
I don’t know sorry! But if it works for hamsters during torpor I think it would work for mice too!
I'm worried I'll have the opposite problem with my rats, because I live in Australia & it gets up to 30°C.