 | Posted by: | Sean, webmaster@deadlysystems.com | | Subject: | not so funny christmas story | | When: | 6:20 AM, 23 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.231.76.163 |
twas the night before christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, 'cept Juno and (it turns out) a mouse...
...when from her old cage there arose such a clatter, i sprang from my bed to sort out the matter...
...when what do my wandering eyes espy, but a little brown mouse, trying to raid Juno's dry food supply.
...I was going to make a line about the mouse being dressed all in red, but that would be kinda icky, if appropriate.
Juno doesn't live in her cage anymore, my room is a jungle, and she has the run of it. She never seems to touch the dry food anymore, just the leadbeaters and fruit/veggies, and her water is up high with them in a little closed-top dish...but this explains why the dry food level was always dropping. She only uses the cage as a staging point to jump to other parts of the room, since she doesn't sleep or eat there.
The metallic banging noise that woke me up was Juno kicking the little bugger's dog around the cage. Are gliders just ferociously territorial, or will they instinctively hunt small mammals in the wild? This is very disconcerting, first because I'm not sure I want her developing a taste for red meat, second because I don't know what diseases a mouse might carry that could be passed to a glider. Would she have eaten it had she killed it, or just left it?
...The mouse ran off, btw, it was still kicking enough to squirm through the budgie bars on the cage when my back was turned, i'm getting mouse traps in the morning (putting them outside my room, of course!!!!) to finish the job, but if anyone knows the answers to my questions, i'd love to hear 'em...
-sean
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| Posted by: | Sean, webmaster@deadlysystems.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 6:24 AM, 23 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.231.76.163 |
good thing i proof. the word "dog" was swapped in by the message filter to replace the word "a55".
gah. (what if i had to write that i owned an a55? anyway...)
<gryn>
| Posted by: | mike, napolitanomike@hotmail.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 7:02 AM, 23 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.27.55.219 |
your glider is territorial. he needs attention or he will become wild.
| Posted by: | Sean, webmaster@deadlysystems.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 2:16 PM, 23 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.231.76.163 |
she's always seemed a little territorial and skittish if there are people she doesn't know in the room, but i usually spend several hours a night with her (i'm up pretty late)...when i got her i was told she was "6 months old", but i (unfortunately) got her at a place that didn't know anything about gliders...i don't know if age could be a significant factor, since we bonded pretty well, she sleeps in my shirt during the day when i'm home...
| Posted by: | Maria, dmeexotics@aol.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 8:24 PM, 23 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 64.12.105.56 |
Gliders naturally hunt. If the mouse had been killed, it would have been eaten and enjoyed!! Not that I would suggest feeding wild mice because they may carry diseases.
| Posted by: | Angela, angelaisme@home.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 10:12 AM, 27 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 205.188.198.39 |
what about crickets? would wild crickets that got into your house be ok for sugar gliders to eat? if they could itd be free cricket control- just let your sugar glider at em!
| Posted by: | Tina | | Subject: | none | | When: | 7:33 PM, 28 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 209.142.232.153 |
My girls were visited by a mouse several nights ago, it crawled underneath their cage. I could hear it walking on the tray, in fact it came back to visit several times that night. And boy did my girls bark-and now are afraid of the floor it scared them more then their barking scared it. To catch the mouse I found a trap at the hardware store that is like a tunnel you put it against the wall and the mouse goes in for food and a door closes behind it. I was too afraid to get a regular trap-this trap doesn't kill the mouse you have to dispose of it.
| Posted by: | Debbie, delliott@tulane.edu | | Subject: | Disposing the trapped mouse | | When: | 1:11 PM, 29 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 216.227.111.97 |
When I had a mouse problem after I trapped them I stuck them in the freezer. Believe it or not being frozen to death is a fairly humane way of doing it and still not having to touch it... 
| Posted by: | Jasmine, Spookie_Girl@yahoo.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 1:49 PM, 29 Dec 2000 | | IP: | 63.78.31.223 |
Sugar gliders will hunt down and kill mice with pack-like instinct. I knew a guy who owned a trio, and he woke up one morning to find the remains of a mouse in their cage. They had literally ripped it to shreds.
BTW - Debbie: Freezing ANY animal is a very CRUEL way to kill it! It only looks peaceful. Being frozen to death is a relatively slow and very painful way to die. If you want to quickly dispatch a mouse, it's best to break its neck. It sounds gruesome, but it's instant. The only other way I've found to humanely kill a trapped mouse is CO2 suffication/poisoning. Unless anyone here uses mice to feed their pets, I'm not going to go into detail about it. I own reptiles and volunteer at a Zoo.
| Posted by: | sean | | Subject: | none | | When: | 4:05 PM, 02 Jan 2001 | | IP: | 12.30.213.84 |
thanks for the info guys =)...i haven't had a return visit that i know of, and juno is at a sitters til i get back from break, so my roomies put out a few traps, hopefully that and keeping her food up high will keep her (and the mice) outta dodge <gryn>...
-sean
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