Feeder Mice Setups

[fish4all]

Corn cob bedding works great for rodents. Is very clean, absorbs odors and is easy to deal with, in my experience anyway.

[ejh805]

Corn cob bedding works great for rodents. Is very clean, absorbs odors and is easy to deal with, in my experience anyway.

I used to keep my pet dumbo rats on corn cob bedding until the texture of it caused sores to develop on their feet and tails.
When I took them to the vet, he asked what their bedding was and how often I cleaned. Bc of cleaning frequency I was told the problem was with the texture of the corn cob bedding.

Although since mice are significantly lighter, it may not cause that problem with them.
I'd be willing to give it a trial run.

[fish4all]

That's interesting, I have never had problems with it raising rats, mice, gerbils and hamsters in the past. Might be they just have soft feet but is good information.

[ejh805]

So I found some chew marks and shredded plastic this morning.
Looks like the mice in the bottom drawer used the water bottle to climb up. Fortunately there are none missing.


You can kinda see the chew marks and plastic dust from being chewed.

So I created something to put around the water bottle to make it so if one did climb up it wouldnt be able to get all the way up.
Please let me know if this looks like it'd detour escapees. I'm not very good at this kind of thing.


Please let me know if it still looks escapable, and what I could do to fix it cheaply.

*I also rubbed Thai dragon pepper juice from my pepper plant on the handle. Thought the taste/smell might keep them off if my contraption doesn't work.