Fancy Mouse
Fancy mice (“fancy” means “hobby” in this context) are domesticated form of the house mouse (mus musculus). The terms fancy and “feeder mice” are often used interchangeably by retailers, and are in fact the same variety of mouse.
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Famous quotes containing the words fancy and/or mouse:
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A mouse does not run into the mouth of a sleeping cat.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)