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water bowls for mice?

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pheonix

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i was wondering if anybody has had success with using water bowls for mice? i have a critter cage that you can't hook up a water bottle to, so i was thinking i would use a bowl. I know he would throw the water around but maybe he would get used to it and stop?
 
I've never used bowls for my rodents, mostly since they had a tendency to fill their food bowls up with their aspen bedding...I can only imagine they would do the same with whatever bedding they had and a water bowl? :shrugs:
 
You can use water bowls, but you will have to clean it all the time, they will put bedding in, food in, use it as a toilet etc. I have a dwarf hamster in a little critter cage, I duct taped a 3 ounce water bottle to the side lol! He was given to me because he was too aggressive for the petshop to sell. My kids tamed him in 10 mins lol!
 
do you think some duct tape would work with mice? i wouldn't like him to get stuck, or attempt to eat it. he'd only be in there for about 5-6 days.
 
Fang the hamster chewed the duct tape a bit. Peel and stick velcro would work too. The dwarf hamster can get out of the hamster cage so I tossed him into one of my feeding tanks, without any snakes lol!
 
I use a wire hanger in my aquariums that have rodents, but I couldnt get the lid to close on the critter keeper.
 
yeah, i'd use small picture hanging wire or something similar. I'd only have him in there for about a week, so i wouldn't have to change the water. I'm only doing this to give my females a short break.
 
If you take him from the colony and reintroduce him with babies the females will attack him. They are very protective of their babies, and after a week they will have no memory of who he is.
 
So to add, don't take the male out. Ever. Mice are built to live in colonies, and also breed back to back with no breaks. As long as they have food and water, they need no breaks.
 
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