Smell of 3 females as compared to 1 male?

by MooMouse Wed 05 Oct 2016, 6:47 pm

Hi all, just a quick question for those who have owned both female and male mice. Do 3 females smell as much as 1 male does? I would like to adopt another male mouse or a colony of females, but my family is concerned with the stench that another male mouse would bring. Is the smell of 3 females any less pungent? Thanks!

by CallaLily Wed 05 Oct 2016, 7:09 pm

I'm my experience, no, a group of girls does not smell as strongly as a male. I've only ever had one male though, so maybe it was just him but his smell was a lot more noticeable. My husband, whose nose isn't that great, complained about it a lot. Because of it he always called Daryl "Triple D" (Dirty Daryl Dixon).

by AnonymousMouseOwner Wed 05 Oct 2016, 7:15 pm

With my girls, I can stick my head in their tank and barely smell it. But Scout has a pretty strong smell, I can smell it just sitting next to his tank. So, girls smell much less in my opinion.

by SilkyMoth Fri 07 Oct 2016, 3:56 am

I have six girls and one boy, and Loki my male definitley smells worse! Razz

by Mouseketeers Fri 07 Oct 2016, 5:37 am

My eleven girls sitting in side by side cages don't smell half as much as one of my original bucks do.

I have a few bucks from my "smell less" experiment, even they smell more than the girls all put together.

So if smell was the only concern girls win hands down Razz

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