{"id":770,"date":"2008-10-10T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T03:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-04-28T20:16:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:16:53","slug":"house-for-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"House for the Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superpetusa.com\/catalog\/viewone.asp?itemNumber=60502\">Crittertrail Mini Two<\/a> that I ordered arrived to-day, as did the two water bottles that I ordered for use with the larger of the two carriers.  I am pleased with the way that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superpetusa.com\/catalog\/viewone.asp?itemNumber=60502\">Mini Two<\/a> packs-up for storage or shipment.  In any case, I could now in good conscience buy a small rodent, as I have a decent home in which to put it.<\/p><p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superpetusa.com\/catalog\/viewone.asp?itemNumber=60502\">Mini Two<\/a> has a handle such that it too could be used as a carrier, but I think that it would be best if the rodent felt that its home were <em>stable<\/em>.)<\/p><p>Unfortunately, I haven't  found a local mouse breeder.  I can buy a mouse from one of many pet stores, but I'd prefer to buy one from a breeder, as there are much the same issues with the breeding of <q>exotic<\/q> pets as with dogs and with cats &mdash; inhumane breeders and all that.  Which is not to say that I would refuse to buy a mouse from, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petsmart.com\/\">PetSmart<\/a>, but that at least <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">ceteris paribus<\/span> I would rather buy from a breeder who allowed inspection of the environment in which the animals were bred and housed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crittertrail Mini Two that I ordered arrived to-day, as did the two water bottles that I ordered for use with the larger of the two carriers. I am pleased with the way that the Mini Two packs-up for storage or shipment. In any case, I could now in good conscience buy a small rodent, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[179,184,178,579],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-companion-animals","tag-mice","tag-pets","tag-rodentia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}