Update

So I thought it was time for a little update on the mice. I am currently working on a post about mouse health, but I am not quite done yet, so I hope a little update is good enough.

Life is great here. The mice are very happy and active, and they seem to enjoy themselves a lot. As many of you know, I finally managed to connect Pippins cage with Øysteins old one. I have been waiting over 5 weeks to do it! I had ordered the parts at a pet shop, but the company that should deliver the parts where so slow, and only managed to deliver the tube. So I decided to order the rest online. And finally the parts came!

The two connected cages

When I came home I had to clean and completely disinfect Øysteins cage, so that it didn’t smell like him, or had any traces of him at all. Also the toys that I decided to use again, where disinfected. And finally I could start to organize the cage as I wanted it. Pippin was very curious the whole time, as he was on the playground, and could see that I was doing a lot of things with his cage, and a new one. When I was done I placed him in his cage, so that he wouldn’t get to confused, and then he could investigate the new tube that connected the two cages.

Making sure it's not dangerous

He was a bit cautious in the beginning, which was very cute. He actually turned around and walked away the first time, but then he changed his mind and came back. Being so curious all the time in his daily life, it was clear to see that he really wanted to investigate it, but he didn’t quite know what to think of it in the beginning. He walked into the tube, and backed out again a few times, before he gathered the courage to walk all the way over to the new cage. There he made sure that his butt was always inside of the tube, while he tried to sniff the new cage. But eventually he figured out, that if he wanted to investigate it all, he would have to get out of the tube.

Not so sure about it, so he stays inside of the tube, but still wants to investigate

When he finally did it he was so happy, and ran around like a hyperactive young mouse, because he just had to investigate it all at the same time. Meanwhile I was just sitting on a chair, smiling like a proud mother. It made me so happy to see him like that. The whole process only took a few minutes, and then he would run between the two cages like he had been doing it forever.

Mouse in a tube

It’s been a few days now since the change, and he is really a much happier mouse. Not that he wasn’t happy before, but having much more space has definitely made him happier. Yesterday he really made me laugh, because I had given him a whimzee, and he wanted to transport it to the other cage. So he took the whimzee in his mouth and wanted to go into the tube, but the whimzee was too big and he dropped it. Then he looked over at me like he blamed me for not being able to take it with him. Of course I gave in and helped him.

The girls are also being their usual selves, by driving me crazy because Chewie always throws bedding out of their cage. And she looks so innocent when I walk over to stop her ^_^ So they are being mischievous like always, but it only makes me love them even more.
A life with mice is a happier life <3

- The mouselife