ABSTRACT
I discuss here the conversations I had with a group of ten female ex-laboratory mice who came to live with me in the summer of 2020. These mice taught me that mice are not the kind of beings that humans think they are, and about what matters in life more generally. In our conversations, sound and music played an important role, as well as material interventions and co-creating new habits. In the chapter I not only describe how the conversations between the mice and me developed, but also discuss the politics of living with mice, drawing on insights from (vegan) ecofeminism, and possibilities for mouse-human deliberation, drawing on multispecies deliberative theory.
