meet tiny

Name: Tiny aka Hercules

Age: four weeks

Sex: male

Weight: 5 grams (most mice this age weigh 15 grams; hence the name Tiny)

Why he came to our house: Tiny is in the witness protection program. He is so small that he was at risk for being consumed by other members of his colony.

Where he came from: He was liberated from a vivarium at an unknown university.

Why the heck would you bring a mouse into your house; don't people trap those things?: The matriarch of the house has a strange affection for mice. She acquired her first pet mice at age eleven. They were named Darren and Dale. She has felt a hole in her life since their departure; a hole filled by Tiny.

What do Ollie and Zuzu think?: Those lazy felines haven't even noticed him.

Grace's reaction to Tiny: "I will call him Tiny, and I will lub him."