I have a male outdoor rabbit. A male and my back yard have wild mice will my rabbit be safe??

will the wild mice bite my rabbit?

 Okay. I will be getting him a hutch asap! maybe after i neuter him. and i will  take him to the vet if he has flea.

P.S what does OP  stands for???

Posted By Rabbits101 on 12/24/2011 03:20 PM

 Okay. I will be getting him a hutch asap! maybe after i neuter him. and i will  take him to the vet if he has flea.

 

What kind of housing is he in right now?  I think in another thread you mentioned a garage.  Is the garage clean, dry, climate-controlled (or at least warm) and not used to store cars?  Could you make some type of permanent housing in the garage.  At least then the bun would be out of the elements...  We do have some members who have housed buns in garages and it can be successful under the right conditions...

Yeah it was the fleas that just happened to catch a ride on the rats.

What is he in now if not a hutch? If it's a larger area it's better to just secure that than put him in a hutch - pretty much anything can be secured against mice.

ACTUALLY, they are starting to find things from history that say that it was actually human to human. :/

And correct, it was believed at first that the fleas, not the rats (and fleas can jump from any animal to a human).... I know just about everything about mice and rats, and rats and mice carry less diseases then cats and dogs (even wild rats and mice). :/ It wouldn't make sense that domesticated rats and mice carry less deseases then the wild ones because our domesticated rats are the same species as our common brown (or norway) wild rats. In fact, our domesticated rats have poorer immune systems then their wild cousins. 

This is from a site about the "Black Death":
"The original argument was that the R. norwegicus deposed R. rattus from its niche when it came across Europe and because its habit was not to dwell in such close proximity to man, the rat fleas did not bit people so frequently, thus the rate of reinfection was not continuing. However, there was no significant rat mortality associated with the Black Death in records."

They are starting to look at the fact that it killed too rabidly, and it lasted too short of a period to be a Black Death epidemic.
Also, if the fleas (or rats) carried it, there would be more rat deaths then people deaths and there was no evidence of rats dying left and right from it. There would also see evidence of mass rat deaths in the mass human graves when they uncovered them because the rats would eat the bodies before dying. :/

And rats and mice are different species... 

Just going to leave this little link here for general wild mouse/rat/rodent information...

pestcontrolcanada.com/Rodents/mice.htm

 Yes i can

Posted By Mandyyy on 12/25/2011 05:15 PM
Eating poo from any animal can be bad for your bun... But if anything the mice would be more attracted to their hay, veggies, or if you feed them that fiesta food stuff (which I hope yu don't, it is really unhealthy)... because from my experience rats and mice HATE rabbit pellets. They are wild and need food no matter in what way they find it, but I think with pellets it won't attract them but they may pick it up while they are roaming the rabbit cage.

When I was a kid I used to leave out pellets for our backyard rats that we had (i'm weird, don't ask) and they never ate them... but if we fed the birds they would be out in a minute, or if I left out my hamster food for them.

Well...considering hay is a necessity for rabbits, you can't count on mice not coming by because IYE they don't like the pellets.

I think a set up in the garage is a great idea! Let us know some more details, and we'll work with you on an ideal layout for your bun!

Posted By Sam and Lady's Human on 12/25/2011 05:43 PM

Well...considering hay is a necessity for rabbits, you can't count on mice not coming by because IYE they don't like the pellets.

 

They don't eat the hay, they use it as bedding and nesting materials.

Posted By Mandyyy on 12/25/2011 05:47 PM

Posted By Sam and Lady's Human on 12/25/2011 05:43 PM

Well...considering hay is a necessity for rabbits, you can't count on mice not coming by because IYE they don't like the pellets.

 

They don't eat the hay, they use it as bedding and nesting materials.

I'm sorry, for I'm feeling a bit fuzzy minded in my merry making, but mice do poop as they go, no? So they would poop and pee in the hay that the rabbits could very well eat?