Re: Anybody let their mice play with toilet paper tubes?

Heather Fieldhouse wrote:
> In article <45ac5fdb$1$4853$88260bb3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Bruce Atchison - author" <batchison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> I'm new to the list so if this has been recently discussed, please
>> pardon me.  I had a hamster once who loved toilet paper tubes.
>> While I changed her cage, I let her loose in my bath tub with a
>> number of the tubes.  It was so funny to see how much that little
>> creature had with what most people consider garbage.  Too bad I
>> didn't have a video camera back in 1982.  It would have been fun to
>> see over and over.
>
> I'd be surprised if anyone here DOESN'T let their mice play with
> toilet paper tubes.  Mice and toilet paper tubes are a natural
> combination.  My mice go nuts with them.  Usually they immediately
> work on tearing them into pieces to line their nest with, leading to
> the hilarious sight of mice waving huge pieces of cardboard in the
> air.  They will often use part of one as a kind of lid for the top of
> their nest.

Mine use pieces to try and block up the vent holes in the nestbox 'roof'
(a 
large upturned plantpot) - they aren't as daft as they seem!

(I use a plantpot because I find that condensation is a problem both in 
winter and summer from their breathing - often bedding used to be stuck to

the insides of the box, a plantpot has several holes already made at the 
top, and a manmade mouse sized hole at the bottom!)