1 cage iron
Wire mesh rubber cage
The wire mesh plastic cage is the most common and cheapest mouse cage. There are wheels, ladders, water bottles and so on in the cage. It is also convenient to clean and suitable for summer use. The only disadvantage is that it is easy to get livid. It is less effective in heat preservation when used in winter.
2 food utensils
3 drinking water bottles
Rats need to drink water! So please be sure to help him prepare a drinking fountain and clean water source! Never give him water after receiving it from the tap water pipe. Give him what kind of water you drink, or the rat will easily have loose bowels and die.
4 wood chaff
5 grinding bar
Rats' teeth will grow longer and longer, so they need a grinding stick to help them grind off the long teeth, otherwise it will cause difficulty in eating, which will be fatal! However, there are many types of grinding sticks, such as long grinding sticks made of mixed grain and honey, khaki-like cork feed (sold in bird shops), and my popular corn grinding stick.
6 bath powder
If there is no bath powder, you can make it yourself.
First, take the spun yarn and filter it with gauze. Then, put the filtered sand in a microwave oven and heat it about 1 minute. The specific time depends on the amount of sand. After that, put the talcum powder, preferably colorless and odorless, and it can be used after cooling.
Drinking water: be sure to use boiled water, and if possible, it is best to feed pure water (mother rats should be properly fed with fresh milk during lactation).
Molar supplies: there are special molar wood and molar mineral salts, but rats and mice may not like them.
Molar snacks will be more popular. Prices range from 10 to 60 yuan.
Never use disposable clippers, popsicles and the like!
(Friends raised in a locker must prepare these. If it's a cage,
Rats grind their teeth by biting cages.
Rat, rat, do you want to take a bath?
Take a shower! This is a good starting point, but for rats and mice, they can't enjoy bathing like humans.
Because they are too small, taking a bath will consume too much physical strength for them and there is a risk of catching a cold.
Rats and mice usually clean their hair and keep their bodies clean, so as owners, we don't need to take them to take a shower.
However, the area around little ass can be gently wiped with warm water after wetting the towel.
In addition, you can also prepare a soft brush to help mice tidy their hair from time to time. On the one hand, it is a good way to get close to mice.
On the other hand, you can also check the skin and limbs of rats and mice at the same time, especially the golden rats with long hair should be arranged like this more often.
When finishing, you can use the small tooth toothbrush that children brush their teeth as a brush.
Brush it slowly along the direction of hair growth. Rats with short hair will do it once every two to three weeks, while rats with long hair will do it once a week.
There are also some rat cleaning products on the market, such as dry cleaning powder and foam cleaner.
You can also use these. After washing, rats and mice will be more energetic, and they can also cover up their body odor.
But be careful not to get the mouse's eyes or other facial organs.
They will roll on the sand to remove the dirt from their hair, which can also satisfy the nature of rats and mice digging holes.
So basically as long as you have the above methods, you don't have to worry about the problem of rat hair cleaning.
Give rats a sick number
In case the mouse gets sick, it is a sad and troublesome thing!
Because the current pet medicine is still aimed at cats, dogs, horses and so on,
As for rats and mice, these partners who have been with human beings for thousands of years have only become popular in recent years.
For rats and mice, we still have a lot to study. At present, we only know the treatment methods of some major diseases.
Rats and mice are small and have fast metabolism, so it is difficult to find symptoms at the early stage of illness.
Usually, by the time it is discovered, the condition is not serious, which also causes trouble in treatment, and it may not be cured.
What's more troublesome is that for the above reasons, there are very few veterinarians who can treat rats and mice, and it is even more difficult to find a specialized vet.
Therefore, the best way is to do preventive health care from daily life to avoid rats hanging sick numbers.
Pay attention to environmental hygiene
There is a lazy and dirty nest owner, and rats are easy to get sick! The environment is dirty and easy to breed bacteria.
Or attract flies, cockroaches and mites to visit, and bring some germs as "companions" by the way, and rats and mice will suffer.
It is best for the owner to clean the water feeder, feed basin and poop every day, change wet sawdust frequently, and clean the cage every week.
And blanched and disinfected with hot water. Wash your hands before and after playing with rats and mice.
Balanced and diversified nutrition
Feed rats and mice with balanced and diversified foods, and don't just pour some ready-made feed lazily.
Because you have enough to eat well, you have resistance! In addition, drinking water is also a place that wo owners are easy to neglect, and drinking water should be changed every day.
If it is polluted, change it. In areas where tap water is not drinkable, please give rats and mice drinking water for human use. Anyway, it doesn't drink much.
Bath sand: one pack of WILD-308 is from 65 yuan to 90 yuan. It can be used for about half a year and can be recycled.
When there is an odor, it should be replaced. If it is wet just after being replaced with a new one, the wet place can be taken out separately.
Some people will use cat litter instead of bath sand. I don't agree with this practice. Cat litter is not bad when used as rat toilet sand.
But for rats and mice, the particles are too big to get rid of bacteria.
Remember never to bathe rats and mice with water. Rats and mice are naturally afraid of water. May die after washing).
Stable temperature and humidity
Rats and mice mostly come from dry areas. Please note that cages should be placed in dry and quiet places to avoid getting wet (so change sawdust frequently).
Rats and mice are very sensitive to temperature. Rats and mice in the wild live in underground holes and have natural temperature regulation function, so they should maintain a stable temperature.
In the weather with large temperature difference and winter, we should pay attention to keep warm to prevent rats from hibernating.
Generally speaking, rats and mice don't hibernate very well, just sleep longer than usual.
Avoid stress and tension
Rats and mice are naturally sensitive (for example, Roborowski voles are particularly timid) and are raised in artificial environments.
It is easy to feel stressed and nervous. It seems that, just like human beings, stress often leads to gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea.
Even got a stomach ulcer.
Don't play too hard with rats and mice, such as chasing, jumping, throwing in unfamiliar environment, etc.
Maybe we think it's interesting, but the mouse feels pain and fear. To solve the stress problem of rats and mice,
The first is to provide enough exercise space, give rats a big cage, put running rollers, and come out to play every day.
Especially neurotic old people and old women, can't be touched easily.
Otherwise, it is easy to scare them, cause self-harm, or hurt the owner's finger and get bitten.
Of course, it is not difficult to make out with old people and old women. Basically, the second generation will be better.
Because I grew up with people, it is easy to play.