Will degu's chew through wire mesh?

[khay]

...Wondering.
It's alot softer than wire bars, but would degus chew through it?

[Sunshinemeg]

A degu will chew anything they think they can! If its a lot softer they may realise this and chew on it more to get through, but its not possible to be 100% certain on that one!

[khay]

lol alright, thanks.

[Aimeelou]

Theres not much that a Degu will not try and chew their way through apart from glass, steel, iron, kryptoite.....

[khay]

Well theyve been in the wire-mesh sided cage for awhile now, the only thing they've chewed up which wasn't meant for that was their water bottle. (Oops) but the holes on the cage are too small to fit the ball part through......so am going to have to put up with replacing chewed water bottles until we get their new cage.
Probably the reason that they are not chewing through this is that the holes are very very tiny.

[diet otaku]

they make metal bottle holders that you can put in a cage to protect it from being chewed. :3

[khay]

lol, diet, I haven't found any of those! We've gone through 4 bottles so far.

Do you know of any online links to buy them? If not I assume I'll be getting creative pretty quick here....Slipping a glass cup over the top of the bottle might do the trick

[diet otaku]

the only places i know to get them from are US stores and i'm not sure if they ship to canada... but a glass over the bottle would certainly help.

[khay]

Put it over the bottle last night, it's working so far lol

[julie]

im going to be making my own cage from 19 guage wire mesh. i really dont think they will chew thru it. but you never know i guess.