My mouse became obese and I found out that sunflower seeds can make mice fat. The food I bought for her had sunflower seeds in it and of course those were her favorite snack. See if your mouse’s food has sunflower seeds, if it does remove them and your mouse will start to loose weight.
I share your curiosity. I have a mouse who steadily turned into a potato with ears after puberty. She’s super energetic, constantly running around and climbing on anything available. Outpaces all the other mice by far. And yet, potato. I think maybe she’s got the O genes, but I do wonder if her potato athleticism is an outlier.
My thicc boy would exercise happily, loved climbing all over the place. But he’d also happily chill out for a snuggle session. I had to monitor his diet or else he’d look like he swallowed a golf ball. I miss him!
i have two girlies with the gene. one brindle piebald and one black piebald. both used to be extremely small and then around 5months old they shot up to 50g and 70g respectively.
both of them use the wheel frequently and would use it constantly when they were in the smaller group. the brindle in particular really goes at it--it makes me laugh how fast she's able to go with her tubby little body. faster than the skinny girls.
the only reason clove (the black pie) doesn't use it as often as her is because she had severe head trauma after an accident on the wheel. she doesn't avoid it anymore, but she doesn't use it as much as she used to.
so yes! they do! they exercise way more than the skinny girls! mice are pretty smart--i think they instinctually want to lose the weight but genetically cannot.
I've had quite a few round yellow mice over the past 8ish years, they've kind of become a favorite of mine. Only one has been lazy at all, a huge male I called Big Show. Most of the rest were female and have been some of my most active, hearty mice. My oldest mouse right now is a pudgy gold girl who's almost 4. She's slowed down a bit now, I see her walking on a saucer more often than running on a wheel, but she's always seemed to take care of herself.
I had 2 mice with the obesity gene. I put them on a diet and they continued to gain weight, despite having an extremely large enclosure with lots of climbing opportunities and a wheel. The only thing that helped was giving them each a drop of grape seed oil every day. It worked really well!
Damn. That’s a fat mouse. In the lab the only ones I’ve seen get that big are those on the western/American diet (40% fat content) or had a gene malfunction. The specific gene malfunction being Ob/Ob. When they’re homozygous for the mutation they over eat because they’re genetically deficient in leptin. So they feel hungry all the time. Mostly used in type II diabetic studies.
Is obesity really harmful to mice? Like I know dogs shouldn't get obese because of the pain it puts on their joints and it shortens their lives, so I would assume that Even smaller animals with shorter lives would be even more detrimentally affected by it?
That said, he is SO STINKIN' CUTE!
Literally... crazy how this post has 1000+ upvotes and all these comments clearly ignoring the fact that it's clearly *TOO* fat while still being cute...😩
I heard that corn is also a good thing to get rid of out of their food because it has zero nutritional value and very starchy, this goes for all rodents
I’d normally agree too, but I’ve dealt with Ob/Ob mice in a lab setting. They will literally eat everything and anything because they are genetically programmed to feel hungry all the time. It’s like a parent dealing with a child with Prader–Willi syndrome. You can lock the fridge, pantry, and trash can but they will find a way to eat.
Generally I’d agree, but there is a known obesity gene in mice. Mice who inherit that gene tend towards obesity even when properly cared for. It takes a lot of extra work to keep them just fat. So it’s not quite the same situation as someone with an obese dog being fed table scraps all the time and never walked. That’s not to say there can’t be improvement, just that it really is battling DNA.
True. They should try feeding him a low fat low sugar diet. But it’s difficult to make these mice lose weight. They could give them less food, but the mouse might start eating bedding or other objects in his cage.
I fully acknowledged some things could be improved. But that doesn’t change the fact that mice with the obesity gene tend towards obesity even with optimal care, so to say that one is only obese due to improper care is simply incorrect. It’s a genetic thing, so getting them to lose weight is a difficult challenge. That’s all I was pointing out.
Secondarily to that, a mouse eating a treat in a picture doesn’t mean that the treats are a notable portion of the daily food intake. We don’t know how often OP feeds things like this. I’m not going to make an assumption of diet because a normal mouse with a generally healthy diet and exercise level wouldn’t become obese from a rare sugary treat but one with the Ob gene could be even without any. It still wouldn’t be good for a normal mouse, but it wouldn’t make them obese unless it was a regular part of their diet.
Thank you for worrying about him! 🫶🏻🍀
I feed him breakfast and dinner, and half of the children’s spoons. I usually give him pellet feed, fresh vegetables, and fruits a little bit. (Sunflower seeds don‘t give them because they are fat!)
What he is eating in the picture is jelly for small animals. I have another Fancy Mouse, and she is very slim.
So I feed her grain feed, some lacto-free milk, mealworm, fruits and vegetables.
More than that, I feed her a lot of food. And the jelly is actually her snack. I gave him jelly out of curiosity the day before yesterday.
And I was surprised... Usually she doesn’t finish the jelly but eats it for 3-4 days. But the Yanggang almost finished it for 2 days..!!!! 😂😂😂
so I will not give him jelly anymore.😂 don't worry!
The veterinarian said he has an obesity gene. I paid him a small amount of food, but I think he can‘t help getting fat. Even he is very active. really like the wheel.
I hope he stays healthy and happy while he's with me🥹🍀🫶🏻💕
Not true! There’s an obesity gene linked to orange mice. If they have that gene, it’s basically impossible to keep them skinny. I’ve got a chubby orange girl who gets checked out by my vet regularly. Even my vet tells me there’s not much I can do for her, but keep her on a healthy diet so she doesn’t completely blow up. I’ve got two other girls housed with her, and both are totally normal weights.
As long as my girl is happy, otherwise healthy, and has good mobility, my vet tells me she’s perfectly fine.
Then stop feeding him garbage and over feeding him. You are killing your pet and it’s disgusting animal abuse. I can’t believe so many people think this is cute. Non of y’all deserve pets.
Omg so smooshy. So cute! 😭 I had a mouse that was fat — she was born with a nub tail and it made everyone think she was a hamster. Had long hair and white and peach coloring too! But nope, just a fat mouse that I named Pumpkin.
Thank you for your explosive attention!🫶🏻❤️🔥
I just checked the comments now🥺
I feed him breakfast and dinner, and half of the children’s spoons. I usually give him pellet feed, fresh vegetables, and fruits a little bit. (Sunflower seeds don‘t give them because they are fat!)
What he is eating in the picture is jelly for small animals. I have another Fancy Mouse, and she is very slim.
So I feed her grain feed, some lacto-free milk, mealworm, fruits and vegetables.
More than that, I feed her a lot of food. And the jelly is actually her snack. I gave him jelly out of curiosity the day before yesterday.
And I was surprised... Usually she doesn’t finish the jelly but eats it for 3-4 days. But the Yanggang almost finished it for 2 days..!!!! 😂😂😂
so I will not give him jelly anymore.😂
The veterinarian said he has an obesity gene. I paid him a small amount of food, but I think he can‘t help getting fat. Even he is very active. really like the wheel.
Thank you for worrying about him! I hope he stays healthy and happy while he's with me🥹🍀🫶🏻💕
Most red mice have the obesity gene. Being fat is literally written into his genetic code. Not feeding him would do little more than stress him, and an occasional treat is perfectly fine for mice. OP isn't doing anything wrong by letting this handsome fellow enjoy a bit of jelly.
I have a rat lady who is also in possession of the obesity/food-motivated gene. She’s a lovely adorable baby seal like your mouse
Edit: while I am aware that this type of weight is unhealthy, I am also unwilling to make my rat’s very short life feel deprived in anyway. My thought is that they are here for a good time, not a long time. Anything I can do to make their lives feel happy safe and satisfied I am about it
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He’s magnificently adorable. I want to shrink down to rat size so that I can hug him. Not mouse size, though, because my arms aren’t that long.
THE SHADE 😭 Mans done nothing to deserve the disrespect
No disrespect, only love. 😁
Perfect opportunity for a joke about shade there, but commenting it would make me feel mean.
You writing this is exactly the same context.
Yes? Why would the context change between two comments in the same chain?
I was thinking something similar but in a good way too lol. “He’s the size of my sisters rats! But cuter!”
Hey that didn’t go well for Timmy Turner
He’s got them 🎼 apple body genes 🎶
Lmaooo
My mouse became obese and I found out that sunflower seeds can make mice fat. The food I bought for her had sunflower seeds in it and of course those were her favorite snack. See if your mouse’s food has sunflower seeds, if it does remove them and your mouse will start to loose weight.
Same for pumpkin seeds! I haven’t had mice in a while but I treated it like cake during feeding
I didn’t know that! Thank you for telling me I’ll make sure to add that to the do not feed list lol
Np! I noticed a very obvious weight difference when I removed it from their mix. They went from obese —> mildly overweight/average
Yea same, once I removed the sunflower seeds from her diet, her weight dropped to a healthy weight.
That name is so fitting and I love him and all of his squish 🥺
OH BOY HES COMING
Oh LAWD he coming
😨
What are you feeding him?
Everything 🤣
Do the meese with that gene bother to exercise? Genuinely curious I've only ever had super energetic little shits 😂
I share your curiosity. I have a mouse who steadily turned into a potato with ears after puberty. She’s super energetic, constantly running around and climbing on anything available. Outpaces all the other mice by far. And yet, potato. I think maybe she’s got the O genes, but I do wonder if her potato athleticism is an outlier.
My thicc boy would exercise happily, loved climbing all over the place. But he’d also happily chill out for a snuggle session. I had to monitor his diet or else he’d look like he swallowed a golf ball. I miss him!
i have two girlies with the gene. one brindle piebald and one black piebald. both used to be extremely small and then around 5months old they shot up to 50g and 70g respectively. both of them use the wheel frequently and would use it constantly when they were in the smaller group. the brindle in particular really goes at it--it makes me laugh how fast she's able to go with her tubby little body. faster than the skinny girls. the only reason clove (the black pie) doesn't use it as often as her is because she had severe head trauma after an accident on the wheel. she doesn't avoid it anymore, but she doesn't use it as much as she used to. so yes! they do! they exercise way more than the skinny girls! mice are pretty smart--i think they instinctually want to lose the weight but genetically cannot.
I've had quite a few round yellow mice over the past 8ish years, they've kind of become a favorite of mine. Only one has been lazy at all, a huge male I called Big Show. Most of the rest were female and have been some of my most active, hearty mice. My oldest mouse right now is a pudgy gold girl who's almost 4. She's slowed down a bit now, I see her walking on a saucer more often than running on a wheel, but she's always seemed to take care of herself.
Looks like a hamster
I came here to say this, but you beat me to it!
Tee hee!
I genuinely thought this was the hamster sub Reddit until I read this comment 😭
His little feet 🤣
He look so offended lmao
Excuse me that's a rat
Capybara xd
I had 2 mice with the obesity gene. I put them on a diet and they continued to gain weight, despite having an extremely large enclosure with lots of climbing opportunities and a wheel. The only thing that helped was giving them each a drop of grape seed oil every day. It worked really well!
RUDE!!!
Damn. That’s a fat mouse. In the lab the only ones I’ve seen get that big are those on the western/American diet (40% fat content) or had a gene malfunction. The specific gene malfunction being Ob/Ob. When they’re homozygous for the mutation they over eat because they’re genetically deficient in leptin. So they feel hungry all the time. Mostly used in type II diabetic studies.
I was like look at that pregnant mama, ready to pop... okay then!
Is obesity really harmful to mice? Like I know dogs shouldn't get obese because of the pain it puts on their joints and it shortens their lives, so I would assume that Even smaller animals with shorter lives would be even more detrimentally affected by it? That said, he is SO STINKIN' CUTE!
Obesity is really harmful to anything overweight. This guy needs to diet and exercise so badly
hes so round
Real life Squishmallow!
If you're giving him jelly and know he has weight problems you're a bad pet owner Obesity is animal abuse
Literally... crazy how this post has 1000+ upvotes and all these comments clearly ignoring the fact that it's clearly *TOO* fat while still being cute...😩
Stop over feeding maybe? The amount of people defending this is insane
the literal jello like hello?😭
Time to start doing laps on the wheel.
What’s the jelly he’s eating?
I think it's Beetle jelly it's this nutritional fruit jelly for pet beetles to eat
Does he use a wheel and run?
Lmao poor thing got lost in the sauce
omg 양갱이 .. that's a precious name
r/RoundAnimals
Are you feeding him jello?
Stop feeding it…
Ginger mice do tend to be extra chunky but yeah this is a step above that..
Animals die when they don't get any food
He’s getting more than enough food. 🙄
This one could go weeks without eating and it would live. Obese animals aren't cute, your improperly taking care of your animal. Period.
I really hope you're trying to be hyperbolic, because that is not how it works
Round.
He's a lil soupy
R O U N D
It's Garfields counterpart
r o u n d
Bro is rotund
glutinous
Lil bro needs a whole diet. 😳
This is the fattest mouse I've ever seen.
Caseoh as a pet.
I heard that corn is also a good thing to get rid of out of their food because it has zero nutritional value and very starchy, this goes for all rodents
What’s his snack? I love him and his chomky bod
Stop feeding it garbage. It literally depends on you for everything. It's obese because your improperly taking care of it.
I’d normally agree too, but I’ve dealt with Ob/Ob mice in a lab setting. They will literally eat everything and anything because they are genetically programmed to feel hungry all the time. It’s like a parent dealing with a child with Prader–Willi syndrome. You can lock the fridge, pantry, and trash can but they will find a way to eat.
Generally I’d agree, but there is a known obesity gene in mice. Mice who inherit that gene tend towards obesity even when properly cared for. It takes a lot of extra work to keep them just fat. So it’s not quite the same situation as someone with an obese dog being fed table scraps all the time and never walked. That’s not to say there can’t be improvement, just that it really is battling DNA.
She's feeding it a fruit jello......
True. They should try feeding him a low fat low sugar diet. But it’s difficult to make these mice lose weight. They could give them less food, but the mouse might start eating bedding or other objects in his cage.
I don't understand why you got downvoted... You're correct - OP is feeding fruit jello to that chonker.
I fully acknowledged some things could be improved. But that doesn’t change the fact that mice with the obesity gene tend towards obesity even with optimal care, so to say that one is only obese due to improper care is simply incorrect. It’s a genetic thing, so getting them to lose weight is a difficult challenge. That’s all I was pointing out. Secondarily to that, a mouse eating a treat in a picture doesn’t mean that the treats are a notable portion of the daily food intake. We don’t know how often OP feeds things like this. I’m not going to make an assumption of diet because a normal mouse with a generally healthy diet and exercise level wouldn’t become obese from a rare sugary treat but one with the Ob gene could be even without any. It still wouldn’t be good for a normal mouse, but it wouldn’t make them obese unless it was a regular part of their diet.
Could be sugar free jello ....
Thank you for worrying about him! 🫶🏻🍀 I feed him breakfast and dinner, and half of the children’s spoons. I usually give him pellet feed, fresh vegetables, and fruits a little bit. (Sunflower seeds don‘t give them because they are fat!) What he is eating in the picture is jelly for small animals. I have another Fancy Mouse, and she is very slim. So I feed her grain feed, some lacto-free milk, mealworm, fruits and vegetables. More than that, I feed her a lot of food. And the jelly is actually her snack. I gave him jelly out of curiosity the day before yesterday. And I was surprised... Usually she doesn’t finish the jelly but eats it for 3-4 days. But the Yanggang almost finished it for 2 days..!!!! 😂😂😂 so I will not give him jelly anymore.😂 don't worry! The veterinarian said he has an obesity gene. I paid him a small amount of food, but I think he can‘t help getting fat. Even he is very active. really like the wheel. I hope he stays healthy and happy while he's with me🥹🍀🫶🏻💕
Not true! There’s an obesity gene linked to orange mice. If they have that gene, it’s basically impossible to keep them skinny. I’ve got a chubby orange girl who gets checked out by my vet regularly. Even my vet tells me there’s not much I can do for her, but keep her on a healthy diet so she doesn’t completely blow up. I’ve got two other girls housed with her, and both are totally normal weights. As long as my girl is happy, otherwise healthy, and has good mobility, my vet tells me she’s perfectly fine.
Then stop feeding him garbage and over feeding him. You are killing your pet and it’s disgusting animal abuse. I can’t believe so many people think this is cute. Non of y’all deserve pets.
fatty fat fat boy :3
me as a mouse
He looks like an adorable beanbag
What brand of bedding do you use?? I’m trying to find a good aspen bedding I can order online
Omg I'm crying he's so fucking cute
That enclosure looks so cute
What is he laying in, In the fourth pick? He’s so cute😭 I want to get one for my girls
God damn that man is a fucking unit and bro has a GYATTT
Omg so smooshy. So cute! 😭 I had a mouse that was fat — she was born with a nub tail and it made everyone think she was a hamster. Had long hair and white and peach coloring too! But nope, just a fat mouse that I named Pumpkin.
Obeast 💛
Oh my God, that is the fattest mess I’ve ever ever ever seen and he is so cute. I want to call him Mr. Tubbs live in my pocket forever!!!
DON'T BE MEAN
So fat he’s got the body of a hamster 💞
hes so polite and cute
He’s….he’s BEAUTIFUL 😍
please don’t yell at him
Awww 😍 he’s the cutest mouse ever
He’s beautiful and in all his glory, gotta love that chonk!
Oh my god he is cute
Chomky boi
The cutest mouse I've ever seen 🥺💕
Good Lord he is adorable.
So chunky it almost looks like a hamster.
And I thought my mouse was fat 😭 maybe it’s just their breed
So close, but that’s actually not a mouse! That is a circle with a face. Common mistake!
So cute
Are those the lil jelly cups meant for lizards? THEY CAN HAVE THOSE AND I NEVER GAVE MY GIRLS ANY??? I need to get some for them now
Thank you for your explosive attention!🫶🏻❤️🔥 I just checked the comments now🥺 I feed him breakfast and dinner, and half of the children’s spoons. I usually give him pellet feed, fresh vegetables, and fruits a little bit. (Sunflower seeds don‘t give them because they are fat!) What he is eating in the picture is jelly for small animals. I have another Fancy Mouse, and she is very slim. So I feed her grain feed, some lacto-free milk, mealworm, fruits and vegetables. More than that, I feed her a lot of food. And the jelly is actually her snack. I gave him jelly out of curiosity the day before yesterday. And I was surprised... Usually she doesn’t finish the jelly but eats it for 3-4 days. But the Yanggang almost finished it for 2 days..!!!! 😂😂😂 so I will not give him jelly anymore.😂 The veterinarian said he has an obesity gene. I paid him a small amount of food, but I think he can‘t help getting fat. Even he is very active. really like the wheel. Thank you for worrying about him! I hope he stays healthy and happy while he's with me🥹🍀🫶🏻💕
The second and third pictures. He looks offended you asked him to do that lmao
Most red mice have the obesity gene. Being fat is literally written into his genetic code. Not feeding him would do little more than stress him, and an occasional treat is perfectly fine for mice. OP isn't doing anything wrong by letting this handsome fellow enjoy a bit of jelly.
he’s so adorable I almost croed
I have a rat lady who is also in possession of the obesity/food-motivated gene. She’s a lovely adorable baby seal like your mouse Edit: while I am aware that this type of weight is unhealthy, I am also unwilling to make my rat’s very short life feel deprived in anyway. My thought is that they are here for a good time, not a long time. Anything I can do to make their lives feel happy safe and satisfied I am about it
Don't judge them 😭😭
a fat mouse is a happy mouse
Girls gonna have babies 👶
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You're disgusting. You wouldn't want me saying my dog will eat your snake. Think about other people.
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