Hey all,
I'm thinking breeding fancy mice could be a nice hobby. I already have a doe I suspect is pregnant, and one of my harvest mice appears to be building a nest, so I suspect she's pregnant as well (seems a bit too early in the season to me though, so wont hold my breath)
I am due to move in the near future and as I already have two fairly big tanks for newts and a big cage for the harvest mice I will be fairly limited with space in my next place.
I will be sharing a house so will have to keep the mice in my room, so I'm thinking constructing a tank with RUB's etc will make the best use of space, however I have one concern about this and that is the noise.
At the moment I currently remove my fancy mice from my room at night (harvest mice stay, they are pretty much silent). I wont be able to do this in my next house because there will be 4 cats about. I have seen several designs for constructing RUB's for cages, however all seem to have fairly large size mesh, I think the mice would definitely love to bite on this and will drive me crazy.
Has anyone got any designs or ideas for reducing the noise made by the mice?
Where does everyone else keep their mice?
Thanks!
I'm thinking breeding fancy mice could be a nice hobby. I already have a doe I suspect is pregnant, and one of my harvest mice appears to be building a nest, so I suspect she's pregnant as well (seems a bit too early in the season to me though, so wont hold my breath)
I am due to move in the near future and as I already have two fairly big tanks for newts and a big cage for the harvest mice I will be fairly limited with space in my next place.
I will be sharing a house so will have to keep the mice in my room, so I'm thinking constructing a tank with RUB's etc will make the best use of space, however I have one concern about this and that is the noise.
At the moment I currently remove my fancy mice from my room at night (harvest mice stay, they are pretty much silent). I wont be able to do this in my next house because there will be 4 cats about. I have seen several designs for constructing RUB's for cages, however all seem to have fairly large size mesh, I think the mice would definitely love to bite on this and will drive me crazy.
Has anyone got any designs or ideas for reducing the noise made by the mice?
Where does everyone else keep their mice?
Thanks!