Comments on: Hairless Mice

By: core

core — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:03:34 +0000

i founda hairless mouse in one of my towns pet stores i wanna buy it but it requires more care than regular mice

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:29:48 +0000

Doesn’t blend in very well, does he?

By: bugra

bugra — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:57:53 +0000

Weird and not a good choice for survival in the wild

By: Mayor of Kentonville

Mayor of Kentonville — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:10:23 +0000

Makes me sweaty

By: JC

JC — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:52:47 +0000

I think it´s cute.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:35:50 +0000

Hairless hamster? It sounds like the other hamsters wouldn’t let her play any hamster games.

I used to work for a small biotech company in Berkeley, where they had a room full of caged nude mice. This breed of mice is used in biological research, particularly cancer research. They are conveniently hairless, but also are “athymic”: that is, they lack a thymus, which is an immune system organ. This prevents them from rejecting foreign tissue grafts, I think.

There was one of the scientists who was bald, wrinkled, and a bit portly. He looked a lot like the nude mice.

By: Lea

Lea — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:49:59 +0000

I had a hairless hamster I rescued from the pet store in my neighborhood. All the “normal” hamsters were picking on it and they had to separate her. My dad thought she was a rock at first (because of how she was curled up).
Smartest and sweetest little hamster I have ever met though.

By: Alana

Alana — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:47:42 +0000

There are hairless guinea pigs too. I think they were originally bred because you can use them for dermatology research without having to hire a full time rodent shaver.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:50:05 +0000

A hairless Chinese crested dog playign with a sphynx cat playing with a hairless mouse would be awesome. Double awesome if we can get Andre Agassi to play with the dog.

By: bean

bean — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:43:54 +0000

Is she studying baldness genes in humans, or does she just think those things are cute? Not that I would disagree… I’ve always thought sphinx cats are pretty. A sphinx cat playing with a bald mouse would be awesome.