Easiest way to keep a mouse out of the rabbit pen?
We have three rabbits in a pen on the balcony. For a couple of days, a mouse has been joining them, eating some of their pellets and — more worryingly — leaving some droppings in the food bowl. How can we prevent the mouse from coming in, or at least from pooping in the food bowl?
Background:
The rabbit pen consists of wire mesh on al four sides. On three sides, it's a square mesh with 16mm square holes, on the fourth side the holes are a bit larger. When I went to feed the rabbits last night, that is also the side where I saw the mouse come from, although this could also be coincidence as that is also the most sheltered side.
We usually give the rabbits their food in the late afternoon/early evening, feeding them out of our hand before leaving the bowl there for them until the next feeding time.
My first thought was to screw a 40cm board to the side with the large holes and see what happens, but would that be enough? Or do you have other, easier suggestions?
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Mice could actually fit through surprisingly small openings and the spacing in the mesh should be no bigger than 0.6 x 0.6 cm or else it would not be reliably mice-proof (source). For that reason the mouse would easily fit even through the smaller 1.6 x 1.6 cm spacing you've mentioned unless it's remarkably big and fat.
I could advise sealing the whole balcony with specialized rodent mesh curtains. I don't know exactly how does your balcony setting look like and whether that would be applicable. Maybe there could be a simpler approach but any homemade solution I could come with would be chewed through and wouldn't prevent the mouse from squeezing on the other side.
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