When an overwhelmed man came to a New Hampshire animal shelter last week hoping to surrender 150 mice, shelter employees were ready to assist. He later clarified he had 150 containers of mice.

A group of mice is called a nest, but what do you call 1,000 of them in one animal shelter? “Crippling,” said Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,

STRATHAM, N.H. - What do you do with 1,000 mice? That's a problem an animal shelter has to solve after the rodents rapidly reproduced and overwhelmed a pet owner in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire SPCA said it took in close to 400 mice from a Seacoast man who was keeping them in "filthy plastic tubs.

There’s enough to give one mouse to every member of the U.S. Congress and the 424-member New Hampshire Legislature combined.

A man in New Hampshire surrendered nearly 1,000 mice to a local animal shelter and now workers are scrambling because those mice are giving birth to more mice. "Even in the short time that we’ve had them,