It was really exciting and fun to watch it progress, and eventually 14 adorable little pink,hairless,blind, deaf babies were born :D They were incredibly, surprisingly, cute!! They grew pretty fast, it felt too fast. Anyway, before the babies were actually born we decided to do it as a science project aswel.. Some people claimed it was just lazy of us.. But it wasn't like we couldn't have done a different project- only that we thought it'd be a good project.

So, then the babies are all grown-up, well not quite, 5 weeks old, and we seperate (to prevent any accidental pregnancies). To our surprisement 10 of the mice were boys n 4 were girls. All the girls were agouti- it seemed a pity, i don't know why, i guess cuz i thought the guys were prettier an i'm sexist when it comes to mice- but anyway. So. A week or so later, we realised that at one of the "girls" was a boy!!

So we thought- uhh oh.. And i kinda secretly hoped that we'd have a pregnant mouse again- cuz the babies are so cute.. And what do you know, we had a pregnant mouse!!Well not one, but TWO!! I was really over-whelmed. You can probably imagine (well maybe not..)but i was anyway. So.. then along comes the easter holidays.. and actually a couple days before the babies were born. Then we both went off on holiday and they were left with Rebecca (thanks by the way!). *SHE TOOK REALLLLLYYY BAD CARE OF THEM!!*no only joking.

And so.. after that, about 4 weeks later (aged 5/6 weeks) we seperated them (the second litter that is, slightyl confusing, i know..)And this time, the situation was vice versa, we had 10 girls and 4 boys. This time no mistakes had been made, at least that we knew of..The mice were extremely adorbale, we had loads of colours, and the were like... AHH :D

Then one happy day -actually extremely sad day- my dad says, your time's up. You've had enough time to get them a home! God i was fucking pissed, cuz we'd gone through a lot of trouble to call (well tim did the calling, while i looked for phone numbers to call) and find them a home. Then my dad informs me that he's gonna drown them. I couldn't believe my ears, but after 5 minutes after him having said that it struck me. I was sooooo pissed off, angry and sad and i felt like i'd never ever ever talk to my dad again. I cried for ages, i mean, how would you feel if 1. Your pets were murdered by someone who you thought was nice.. 2. Your science and T.O.M project was destroyed? Not nice. It's bad enough if like a pet dies, but when there are 29 of them and they're MURDERED, it's not nice at all. So yeah. That was the end of them. Well not quite. I got to keep two. It sucked soooo badly, cuz i wanted to keep them all!! I kept Venus and a little beige one called Ruby. There was an absolutely adorable silver mouse, but that one wasn't as tame..So yeah, now i have Venus and Ruby and a whole load of empty cages and food bowls. It's really horrible to walk into the garrage n think that you're gonna go and feed them (it becomes a routine) and then all you see are empty cages.

Ruby died on the 8th of december, i don't know why though! It was really strange.. i came home from school on a wednesday, after my drum lesson. It was all quiet so i went upstairs, my mom and Helena were sitting by their cage, and my first reaction was just OMG is someone dead.. and then they hand me this lil reed basket, and little ruby was just lying there on her side.. i was like oh lord!! It looked like she'd had an attack, like a heart attack, or some other seizure. Well Venus was okay.. so yeah.. Well now she's a bit weird, she scratches ALL the time, we think she's got fleas or mites or something- gotta get that sorted..

<1st Feb 2005>
Venus, my dearest chicken pie, passed away today. As i walked past her cage she didn't move. I though, well maybe she's sleeping. So i walked on into my room to do my hair, and when i walked out, once again walking past her cage, i realized, she hadn't moved. I knew at this moment that my sunshine was dead. I buried her next to the rest of my chicken-pie pets.

<91 days left...>

I'm moving in 91 days. just thought i'd inform you. On the 17th of July i'm leaving Holland. My ferry leaves from Lubeck at 17:00. Kinda shit eh? Well it's not like i wanna go, not one bit. I'm gonna miss my giveleh an all my friends an my house and my school an bergen an everything!!!!!! I dont wanna go....... :'(

< Cappucino... >

I know what ya'll thinking, CAPPUCINO'S DEAD!!?? well she aint, not yet anyway... but she has this nasty lump on her back, i think its cancer.. but anwyays, she's scratched it open an it looks like a volcano on her back.. its soooo gross. she's kinda dieing from it i think............ i hope she's not in pain :(

Yeah she died. What's with my pets?!? they all die.. :( BUT, she lived for a year with the cancer thing.. so you know, if your pet ever gets like cancer, dont give up hope, i mean Cappu was fine for ages.. And i dont think she died in pain, i mean she went into early hibernation and died in her sleep... So yeah.. i miss her so much, she was my darling :(