Are pet rats afraid of cold?

Pet rats are more afraid of cold in winter.

The ideal temperature for pet mice to live is 20~28 degrees. A pet mouse will hibernate at a temperature of about 7~8 degrees, but it is difficult to maintain the ideal temperature in winter. When the cold current strikes, pay more attention to keep warm, spread more padding than usual, or use warm-keeping equipment or give it some clean rags. If possible, feed more food to increase calories, such as melon seeds.

The main food of pet mice is plant seeds, and they like to eat nuts, tender stems or leaves of plants, and occasionally eat insects. Most people don't hibernate and live by storing food in winter. A few species will enter a quasi-hibernation state that is inactive in cold weather.

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Ways for pet mice to spend the winter.

1, providing winter cotton for pet mice. Ordinary household cotton will do. Be sure to bring a comb with a small fine comb. Cotton can be used like silk.

2. Provide nutritional tablets for pet mice. There are milk calcium nutritional tablets specially for pet mice in winter on the market. Generally, the price is relatively high, and a bottle costs 100 yuan.

3. Give more sawdust. Some pet mice will pile their own sawdust, so add more sawdust to it. Conditional families can buy special warm sand for pet mice in winter, which is a kind of composite silicate warm sand with strong warmth retention.

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