Post by birdguhl on Oct 2, 2020 18:40:04 GMT
The other night I was watching TV when I heard a noise which raised my suspicions. I could see that Tony had been spooked by it and I feared that we again have a mouse (or more likely several)!
And indeed there it was moving around under the paper in the big cage looking like it was straight out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon...
The big cage was not actually being occupied by either of my buds as Charlie has been using a smaller cage and Tony rarely goes in. But Charlie's cage with sitting on top of it along with one where I put other food for Tony and evidently enough was falling in from the higher cages to feed a mouse.
The invasion of mice has happened before and is a total drag - constant cleaning to prevent any food being available and hypervigilance everywhere in the flat. I have tried humane traps in the past and I'm sure the mice were laughing their heads off at my hopes they would be that stupid, so I had to get some poison. I hate doing this but I can't live with them.
I had already been grappling with how to get the best balance between safety from falling and room to roam for Charlie. He is more wobbly generally and is inclined to fall even within his cage. And now I am doing that with having the whole set up elevated to the top shelf of the piece of furniture most of the set up sits on to cut off the food supply.
After another bout of cleaning and re-organising today, not to mention a bit of heavy lifting, Charlie is now confined in the big cage up top. I could only just lift it that high as it is a big cage (Ferplast Piano 6). He looks a big lost in it, but I hope he can settle in because I think the days of having cages connected by bendy perches to allow him to move between them is over. That is where he is going to be from here on in.
The previous arrangement had evolved over time and even before the rodent issue it was just too complicated to dismantle and re-assemble for proper cleaning, and again he was getting to the point where the journey between cages had me holding my breath in case he went down onto the floor.
I hope that it will be possible for Tony to have visits into the big cage so that he and Charlie can cuddle up and preen like they love to do. Right now Tony is sitting on a perch beside where Charlie is on his mirror perch and serenading him with bar pings.
Let's hope the mousies get stuck in to the blue stuff pronto...
And indeed there it was moving around under the paper in the big cage looking like it was straight out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon...
The big cage was not actually being occupied by either of my buds as Charlie has been using a smaller cage and Tony rarely goes in. But Charlie's cage with sitting on top of it along with one where I put other food for Tony and evidently enough was falling in from the higher cages to feed a mouse.
The invasion of mice has happened before and is a total drag - constant cleaning to prevent any food being available and hypervigilance everywhere in the flat. I have tried humane traps in the past and I'm sure the mice were laughing their heads off at my hopes they would be that stupid, so I had to get some poison. I hate doing this but I can't live with them.
I had already been grappling with how to get the best balance between safety from falling and room to roam for Charlie. He is more wobbly generally and is inclined to fall even within his cage. And now I am doing that with having the whole set up elevated to the top shelf of the piece of furniture most of the set up sits on to cut off the food supply.
After another bout of cleaning and re-organising today, not to mention a bit of heavy lifting, Charlie is now confined in the big cage up top. I could only just lift it that high as it is a big cage (Ferplast Piano 6). He looks a big lost in it, but I hope he can settle in because I think the days of having cages connected by bendy perches to allow him to move between them is over. That is where he is going to be from here on in.
The previous arrangement had evolved over time and even before the rodent issue it was just too complicated to dismantle and re-assemble for proper cleaning, and again he was getting to the point where the journey between cages had me holding my breath in case he went down onto the floor.
I hope that it will be possible for Tony to have visits into the big cage so that he and Charlie can cuddle up and preen like they love to do. Right now Tony is sitting on a perch beside where Charlie is on his mirror perch and serenading him with bar pings.
Let's hope the mousies get stuck in to the blue stuff pronto...