Sunday night games

I always hate having mice living on their own no matter how short a time its for so with currently 4 meeces in their own cages I’m spending a fair amount of time coming up with ways of keeping them amused. Last night they all seemed bored and were mostly languishing in their beds so I decided to make up some treat tubes for them to play with. A treat tube is just a toilet roll tube that I put a few treats in, stuff both ends tightly with newspaper and then punch a small hole through one side of (so the mice smell can the treats and gives them a start to get their teeth into). Sometimes I hang them from the roof of the cage but last night I just popped them in to see what they did with them.

Within seconds twitchy noses appeared from beds (well all except Hoggle who wasn’t coming out of his wooden house for anyone!) and it wasn’t long before all I could hear were the sounds of cardboard and newspaper being shredded! Grace was very lady like and calmly tore strips of cardboard off, Dutch foster tried to dig his way in the end whilst Lilac foster - now totally recovered from last week - tore his to bits and looked suitably smug when he discovered what was hidden inside. All in all I’d say they were a hit!

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