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.
Read more about Fancy Mouse: Physical Description, Mice As Pets, Mice in Shows, Caging, Feeding, Health, Handling, Breeding
Famous quotes containing the words fancy and/or mouse:
“It is engend’red in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancy’s knell.
I’ll begin it—Ding, dong, bell.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A mouse does not run into the mouth of a sleeping cat.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)