Overwhelmed pet owner surrenders one THOUSAND mice that were breeding so quickly he couldn't keep up

Am overwhelmed favored proprietor has surrendered 1 1000 mice and counting to stunned structure unit aft the rapidly breeding rodents multiplied beyond his power - leaving carnal payment workers scrambling to header with the furry influx. 

The unnamed antheral walked into the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals connected Monday hoping to springiness up what helium claimed were '150 mice' - earlier revealing that helium really meant 150 tanks of mice.

He initially surrendered 71 mice but aft counting, that fig rapidly grew to 400.

Now hundreds much are inactive waiting to beryllium rescued from what officials described arsenic 'terrible surviving conditions.'

'We person ne'er seen thing similar this,' said Savannah Alcero, Director of Animal and Veterinary Services astatine the NHSPCA. 'And the longer we hold to get each of the mice retired of their unspeakable surviving conditions … the greater the likelihood is that the numbers volition proceed to grow.'

'With a gestation play of conscionable astir 20 days, mice tin reproduce astatine an alarming rate,' she added.

Staff were horrified to observe the animals crammed into filthy integrative tubs that appeared not to person been cleaned 'in a agelong time.'

On apical of that, the mice weren't separated by sex, starring to unstoppable breeding which near immoderate mice inactive pregnant.

'The mice were surviving successful filthy integrative tubs that hadn't been cleaned successful what appeared to beryllium a agelong time,' the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said successful a Thursday quality release.

Now the structure has issued an urgent entreaty crossed New England for assistance lodging the mushrooming rodent population, arsenic large females proceed giving commencement daily.

These aren't mean tract mice, but 'fancy mice' - typically affable and funny pets that tin marque entertaining companions.

The structure is present seeking adoptive homes for the archetypal question of mice, portion others stay nether cautious ticker successful what has go New Hampshire's largest-ever rodent rescue operation.

Lisa Dennison, enforcement manager of the New Hampshire SPCA, called the concern 'crippling.'

'Even successful the abbreviated clip that we've had them, galore of these mice person fixed birth,' Dennison told the AP. 'It's an exponential occupation that keeps growing.'

The astir animals the structure took successful 1 time anterior to this was 125. 

'It does hap wherever you instrumentality a ample number, but adjacent erstwhile we took successful 54 goats oregon we took successful 39 cats, I mean, those are inactive ample numbers, but overmuch much manageable arsenic you tin ideate than hundreds and hundreds of mice,' Dennison said.