Cleaning out the bottom of Kappa's cage today, I found mouse poop in the papers. !!! Kappa's cage is set up so that the tray in the bottom is lined with newspaper, then there's a grill on top of that, and another layer of papers on top of the grill. The papers on top of the grill get changed at least twice a week, the papers in the tray get
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Mice are almost certainly capable of climbing the legs of an EFC, and they're 100% capable of climbing fabric. If you can avoid keeping that touching the floor, that'd probably be better.
I personally would also set up a large number of snap traps after you've done that. If you're not willing to do that (which alas is the best way to deal with it), you might consider talking to a friend with either rats or cats and see about getting some litter of either and putting it around the cage. It's completely anecdata, but once I got rats (er, pet rats, not just a rat infestation), the mice completely avoided that area until I eventually killed them all.
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So looks like we may be in Mouse Wars together. Snap traps are helpful with small infestations. Anybody know the specific health hazards/diseases mice pose to birds?
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I wish I were joking about the blinds, by the way. This is the scene I came home to the other night:
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