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    • New Hampshire shelter faces huge mouse problem after man abandons nearly 1,000 rodents
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    New Hampshire shelter faces huge mouse problem after man abandons nearly 1,000 rodents

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    STRATHAM, NH (AP) — A group of mice is called a nest, but what do you call 1,000 of them at an animal shelter?

    “Crippling,” said Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is scrambling to care for a massive influx of people. rapidly reproducing rodents.

    It all started on Monday when a man arrived saying he wanted to abandon 150 mice. But then he clarified: 150 containers of mice, not individual creatures. He had 73 mice with him that day, and by Friday morning, about 450 had been transferred to the shelter. About 500 more were on the way.

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    Staff and volunteers care for a portion of nearly 1,000 fancy mice held in glass tanks that were surrendered to the New Hampshire SPCA, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Stratham, NH (AP Photo/ Charles Krupa)

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    Adoption coordinator Lexi Giannopoulos loads four novelty mice, which were adopted out of nearly 1,000 surrendered novelty mice, at the New Hampshire SPCA, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Stratham, NH (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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    Five of the nearly 1,000 fancy mice are held in a glass tank, which were recently returned by an owner who was overwhelmed by the volume of the multiplying mice, at the New Hampshire SPCA, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Stratham , NH (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

    And this number is increasing thanks to certain biological bases. Many mice arrived pregnant.

    “One of the challenges is that gestation is short and reproduction starts early,” Dennison said. “It’s a huge problem. This is something that has gotten significantly out of control.

    Part of the shelter’s cat pavilion has been transformed into a mouse hospital and hotel, with dozens of containers lined up on the floor, resting on several tables and stacked on shelves. That’s a lot of work for a facility that has taken in a maximum of 125 animals in one day.

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    Erica Newton, left, and Emily Sullivan unload hundreds of novelty mice at the New Hampshire SPCA that were returned earlier in the day, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Stratham, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

    “It happens when you take a large number, but even when we took in 54 goats or 39 cats, I mean, those are still large numbers, but much more manageable as you can imagine than hundreds and hundreds mouse,” Dennison said.

    Other shelters have agreed to take some of the mice and some are being sent to foster homes. At least four were adopted Friday.

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