Lily Mouse
Okay, so animals can’t eat chocolate, even if it is raw. But they can definitely eat raw food. And given that raw food is a wonderful health insurer in this world where pets are now as cancer and disease-ridden as people, the Rawr mice have been going raw!
Houdini, Lily and Daisy made their way to the Rawr fold from Wood Green Animal Shelters back at Easter. For the first couple of months, they ate the traditional mouse diet: pre-packed, additive-filled, heat-treated hamster or gerbil mix, from which they’d pick the tastiest bits (generally the seeds and anything that looked alive). But then I thought – why am I, knowing all about raw food, feeding my cancer-prone mice this most unnatural, dead diet?
Having done my research, the mouse trio now eat nothing but natural food, and nothing but raw. They love it. On a daily basis they get raw oats, buckwheat, quinoa, alfalfa seeds (they like them sprouted too!), rye, pot barley, millet seed, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, flax seeds and green lentils. For an occasional treat they also get hemp seeds, a whole almond, or to lick raw coconut butter from my fingers! And every other day they get a selection of the organic veggies we have in the fridge – the clever things know to eat their dark greens and especially love spinach, kale and calvolo nero, while not being too bothered by anything sweet like fruit. When it’s not too wet out I’ll pick them a box of fresh grass and dandelions – they love the dandelion flowers.
My trio are flourishing on this diet, and it’s proven to me just how great natural eating is. The mice seem to instinctively know what’s good for them, and I think people would too if their bodies weren’t so thrown out of balance by refined sugar, over-processed foods, and all the rest. Eating this way and living in a chemical-free environment, hopefully Houdini, Lily and Daisy will live their mouse lives free of the diseases which catch so many of their pet friends.
p.s. Note to Environmental Health and landlords! Much as I loved ‘Ratatouille’, mice and chocolates are kept in quite different houses, so there is no danger of a reenactment. 
