Fun fact: Mice can only survive 48 hours without food, so not eating for 24 hours is quite long for them.

Had recently gotten two mice.

We were upstairs when we realized it was the first ice cold night of the year.

So we went down and mice are cuddled in the cold , and apparently out of food.

Someone decided fruit loops mixed in with mouse food was a good idea. One mouse went and ate. Other one was clearly in roughed shap.

First mouse took a fruit loop, walked it over, and kept putting it against the others mouth. After couple minutes she started eating.

The sheer empathy of one mouse helping another still gets to me.

They both were fine after eating and being moved to a warm spot.

What determines how long you can survive without food? The speed of your metabolism?

Mostly how much fat and muscle tissue one has. The known record under medical supervision is over a year, but that person was very fat at the start.