Keshi escaped!

About five days back we were lucky to see Keshi wandering around the side of our dog bed Bit of a shock haha, but we managed to get him back safe and sound. We checked the cage over and couldn't find any holes, so put it down to us not clipping the bed on properly. All was well.

Then last night Edge yelled up that he'd seen Keshi wandering in our kitchen!! We put Kasper away and spent a couple minutes trying to catch him, and were even luckier in that we had him in about two minutes! We looked over the cage again and couldn't see anything wrong, then by pure chance Edge lifted the cage and noticed a bar in the top left corner was completely snapped! However it bounced back in a way that made it impossible to tell, but Keshi could obviously nudge it open enough to escape!





...we're just relieved we managed to get Keshi back both times, as he is tiny even for a mouse and there are plenty of places he could have gone - not to mention our dogs' stomach!

Anyway, we put Keshi in a tiny temporary RUB overnight





And went to buy a larger RUB from Bingley, but the only shop that was open on a Sunday had sold out of storage boxes, sigh!

So we walked back and switched the fish into our smaller fish tank



And then used their old fish tank (which was previously Bam and the FBT's home!) and made a nice new home for Keshi! He has all his old toys in there, and we used an upturned cat litter tray with a small hole burned into it to create a second level for him, to make as much use of the space as possible





Keshi was very sleepy at first



But was soon up and about exploring - he seems to like it so far!

Red that is lucky of you to get him back and isn't he just darling look at that lost photograph of him! Do you know I never used to like the rodents that had long tails but he is just precious. I cannot believe that you managed to find him twice and how lucky that the dog was not about also. Iam pleased he is all safe and sound now and his new cage looks lovely but what is a RUB?

Yep, he is an insanely cute mouse...that's why I fell in love with him when I found him at the pet shop!

Oh, sorry, a RUB is a Really Useful Box. I think it's snake keeping terminology haha! It usually refers to plastic storage boxes, you can keep all sorts of animals very happy in there...we've had young snakes, frogs, fish, mice, hamster and hissing cockroaches too!