PhoenixFeather
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2007
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- Joined
- Jul 29, 2007
- Messages
- 373
Hi,
We recently rescued 2 female mice that my kids' school had to get rid of due to a serious allergy issue. To be honest, I wasn't that thrilled about it, but my teenaged son was very attached to them and there weren't any other good prospects, so we took them. They're about a year old.
They were in a Critter trail cage with a huge wheel outside the cage. They loved it but the odor was horrible, we think due to the fact that they'd pee and poo in the wheel, where there was no litter to absorb it or help with the odor.
We got them a SAM 5-level cage (with a wheel inside) instead, and that works a bit better, but we still have some pretty bad odor issues.
My son cleans the cage thoroughly once a week, including washing down all the parts. But it still stinks again after about 2 days. Oddly, it sometimes smells better a little later in the week.
We use carefresh litter. One issue may be the fact that they push their litter out of the cage (through the bars). Is this common mouse behavior? In any case, of course once they do this, there isn't much litter left to absorb their pee.
The mouse care sites I've read all say to change the cage when it starts to smell of amonia, but then they go on to say that that should be about once a week, not every 2 days! Any idea what we are doing wrong?
Thanks!
We recently rescued 2 female mice that my kids' school had to get rid of due to a serious allergy issue. To be honest, I wasn't that thrilled about it, but my teenaged son was very attached to them and there weren't any other good prospects, so we took them. They're about a year old.
They were in a Critter trail cage with a huge wheel outside the cage. They loved it but the odor was horrible, we think due to the fact that they'd pee and poo in the wheel, where there was no litter to absorb it or help with the odor.
We got them a SAM 5-level cage (with a wheel inside) instead, and that works a bit better, but we still have some pretty bad odor issues.
My son cleans the cage thoroughly once a week, including washing down all the parts. But it still stinks again after about 2 days. Oddly, it sometimes smells better a little later in the week.
We use carefresh litter. One issue may be the fact that they push their litter out of the cage (through the bars). Is this common mouse behavior? In any case, of course once they do this, there isn't much litter left to absorb their pee.
The mouse care sites I've read all say to change the cage when it starts to smell of amonia, but then they go on to say that that should be about once a week, not every 2 days! Any idea what we are doing wrong?
Thanks!