| | It is going to be an incredibly tumultuous two weeks-- sometime between studying and taking my final exams, I need to pack and move stuff, buy a car, and prepare for my summer job at Banfield Hospital. I leave for home the day after my last final, and get back to Cali the day before my first day on the job.
But the other day I got a pet mouse!
He moved in on Saturday, in a really big cage with a wheel (he loves his wheel) and other toys. The next day Lisa loaned me a mouse ball and her mini hamster cage which I hooked to the main cage (with cardboard and duct tape, but I must say it works nicely!). Sir Alfred loves his mouse ball; he tries to explore the dark corners of the room. He can go under the bed and under my desk; every so often I don't hear him rolling, so I have to find him and get him unstuck (he might have rolled over a cord and can't get up the momentum to get back, or stuck under something just shorter than the ball.)
He smelled when I got him; today I spent about 3 hours disassembling every piece of the cage, washing it with diluted bleach, and then rinsing each piece carefully under the shower. The smell is gone; we'll see how long it takes to come back. I'm hoping if I change the bedding twice a week it won't be bad at all. (Just in case, I bought a Glades Plug-In and a bottle of anti-allergenic Febreze.)
Anyway, here are some pics/videos! Later I'll post some videos of Mr. Squeakypants cruising in his pink ball, but don't you think I've wasted enough time for today?
Sir Alfred's new home.
The home cage.
An overhead shot of the small cage that Lisa gave me.
The videos are giving me headaches right now, and I don't have the time to deal with it; if I can get them up during study breaks I will :)
Alfred figures out how to get to the new, higher shelf.
There is a whole new cage at the bottom of this tube! But enough of that; I must clean my whiskers.
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