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Very nice, the door reminds me of the Maxeys used by AFRMA:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1894690&l=c3cb92e763&id=1538833089

As you can see, they paint their boxes blue for their club colors. Karen (President of AFRMA) said she had originally tried blue and yellow (club colors), but the yellow gave the mouse an off-color, so she choose white instead for the inside.
 

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Maxey Cage
For those that have asked, "What is a 'Maxey' cage?" it is the National Mouse Club's show box for mice designed by N.M.C. founder Walter Maxey. I've included a diagram from the book Exhibition and Pet Mice by Tony Cooke, L.R.I.C. They use 2 versions: one is lidless, and one is lidded. Some exhibitors will transport their 'Maxeys' in a ventilated traveling box which holds several show cages. They are painted Middle Brunswick Green on the outside and Signal Red on the inside. Walter Maxey was a postman and had access to free red and green paint because the mailboxes were painted those colors. These colors were adopted in 1904 and remain in use since.
Quoted from AFRMA website which can be found here: http://www.afrma.org/pp_mseboxes.htm
 

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I apologize if I offended anyone, I thought Jack was joking in his previous post, and followed suit. I didn't mean to "ruffle any feathers". I apologize if my meaning was unclear.
 
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