Well...

I discovered a flaw in my fabulous duct tape plan.

We have to take out the bottle sometimes.

Thankfully, there's plenty of pretty fresh water in the bottle so I can just leave that up to Marie. Which is my second point.

Um, Marie? I'll be gone. Like, all this week. Like, the mice won't have a caretaker. Like, I need to give them back.

Just so you know.

~Wendy

Duct tape and laziness

The mice have a water bottle in their cage, one of those pet ones that hangs upside-down. Recently whatever was holding it up kept breaking, so the water bottle would fall down. And then the mice couldn't get water. That was kind of sad. Nobody died, though, which was a plus.

Anyway, I decided to put an end to this problem with... duct tape. I made an elaborate water-bottle-holder and installed it in the mouse cage. It may not look nice, but I can assure you that that water bottle is not going to fall down. I was totally going to post a picture of it too, but I'm too lazy. You can imagine the Wonders of Duct Tape in Holding Up Water Bottles.

Another problem has been that the little hamster wheel (er, mouse wheel) keeps getting stuck in the little wood shavings on the bottom of the cage. Then poor little Not-Named-Yet, who is so fond of running in it, cannot run. The last time I checked on them Not-Named-Yet was attempting to exercise by chasing her tail in circles. It made me feel kind of sad, but I don't think duct tape would have helped.

~Wendy