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i need help(:

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Question
I recently got two new female mice. I've had mice before but they were never nervous with me. Can you give me some tips on how to help my mice feel comfortable with me?

Answer
Put your hand in the cage and leave it there. Let them come to you on their own and don't try to catch them when they get on your palm, just let them run around a bit.

Offer them food, some mice will take it after a while, some won't.

Hold them all the time, the more you hold them the better they will become. Pick them up at the base of the tail if they don't crawl into your palm or pick them up around their bodies if they're not too wriggly.