Aw crap - mouse crap!
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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For #2 I did get a no-kill trap and am willing to transport mice over the river for as long as it takes to get them to stop going into the birdcage.
As for #1, yeah I'm going to be changing papers twice daily at least until I stop finding poop in the cage in the morning. And I decided this morning to take food out over night since I started finding mouse poop in the food bowls. :( How the heck do they climb up into them? And why doesn't Kappa freak out about it? I guess Kappa will just have to complain about being hungry until I get up. (Note to self: weigh Kappa!)
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if your mice are deer mice, be careful cleaning up after them. Wear a mask and gloves.
*Googles "deer mice"* Because of hantavirus and lyme disease? Are these something Kappa could catch and I should be freaking out about?
The images I find on Google seem to mix the house mouse and deer mouse. All the mice we've seen were around 1.5-2.5" long w/o tail, plus another inch or two of tail makes 2.5"-4". The mouse currently in the Havahart trap is light tan with a white belly and is slightly more plump, the two I caught previously were gray with a similarly colored belly and were on the smaller side. I think the tan one is a deer mouse, and the gray ones were house mice.
On the plus side, with all the cleaning that I was doing yesterday and today I think I finally found the last source of the moths we've been infested with. :-P
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