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Grodan
2017-03-01 17:41

Hammocks for mice

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Do you use hammock for your mice?

My mice love hammocks.

I think it is so very convenient to be able to give them hammocks homemade from cheap fleece. Just cut to fold (so that it becomes double and they can nest in the middle) and hang up.

For the hammocks I use soft material (fleece) with no thread - it´s important that the mice won´t get tangled in it - and hang up with clips used for curtains. 

My mice do not pee in their hammocks - since I´ve used hammocks for a long time to my mice (over 10 years). But in the beginning there was a little bit of a problem. Although I don´t wash the hammocks. When used, they go in bin. (This is possible when I buy cheep fleece blanket to cut the hammocks from.)

In cages with no bar on top there´s some problem to put in a hammock but with some imagination it´ll work. 

I've tried to put a mini grid cage in the aquarium/terrarium and hang the hammock there, but the cage was filthy with urine rather quickly and difficult to clean. Even tried different settings but the same there. Building a wooden stand for your hammock could be a good thing if you can clean it often.  It can be good enrichement for your mouse/mice. Wood/branches do not last very long. It will get chewed on and smell of pee rather quickly. So you need to change the old wood to new now and then. I´m too lazy for that so I don´t build things in wood to my mice, things I wan´t to last long…

The best thing of wood that I´ve had in a terrarium was a hammock for fruits. Unfortunatly it was made of wood and I had to throw it away after a while.

Hammock hanging in fruit basket

Now I had lots of small boxes and tested this model for the aquarium where some females live. It is low in height, but fulfills the function and the mice love it.

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Isabella
2017-03-01 21:03
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#1

Yep, I have hammocks for my mice, both the plain squares and triangles and various types of double-layered hammocks with hiding spaces, pouches and tubes. They are holding up surprisingly well even after several months of use and many machine washes.

Isabella
2017-03-01 21:06
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#2

Another type that is very popular with the mice and fairly simple to make. It's just a square hammock stitched together on two sides to form a hanging pouch.

Grodan
2017-03-01 21:07
#3

#1 Ah, adorable "peekaboo" mouse there. 

I love to have hammocks like that, but to be honest, I´m too lazy… (and of course I can´t sew)

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Isabella
2017-03-01 21:15
#4

#3 Yeah, that first one took a little while to make, so I'm glad they have decided not to destroy it (just checked and it seems like I made it in January 2016, that's an impressive lifespan for a hammock…).

Grodan
2017-03-02 01:16
#5

#4 WOW, that is long time!

I made this article in stress I think. I need to redo it. Do you wanna Help, Isabella?

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Isabella
2017-03-03 17:59
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#4 I honestly can't think of much else to add to the subject, I think you've pretty much covered it. My mice all live in wire cages, so I don't have any clever solutions to offer for putting hammocks in terrariums or similar, but maybe someone who does use that kind of cage could offer some more ideas.

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Grodan
2017-06-21 17:10
#7

Today I made some new devices for hanging hammocks in aquarium/terrarium. I made them from plastic boxes, size about 4 Liters. I used soldering iron.

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Niklas
2017-06-21 18:47
#8

Can they get into them without Help?


Best regards, Niklas 🎈

Grodan
2017-07-04 11:45
#9

#8 LOL, yeah, of course. The are very agile.

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Niklas
2017-07-04 17:01
#10

Okay.

Shouldn't their keepers have their own hammocks?

How to make a superlight hammock

:-)


Best regards, Niklas 🎈

Grodan
2017-07-05 19:44
#11

#10 haha… I actually never liked hammocks like that. I like the outside swinging sofa, that are called the same in "hammock" in Sweden

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autumn&spring
2018-02-03 00:58
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My two little ladies in their hammock

Grodan
2018-02-03 13:27
#13

#12 Ah, how cute! Heart

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