Remove mice,> clean cage,> replace mice.

only time mice should get wet is bathing them, and hand drying with paper towels is the suggested manner.

Unknown flooding, you need to find the leak and stop it, mean time, relocate the cages.

Huh? How do you clean their cages . . .? It almost sounds like you flood the cages with water and then soak the mice? Despite their being lab animals, it doesn't sound too humane to flood the cages.

It would make more sense to have secondary holding areas in which to keep the animals while the cages are thoroughly cleaned. Then, the cages would be much cleaner, and the animals would not be subjected to the water.

But, I have never heard of a mouse or any other animal getting wet from cleaning their cage.

So . . . ??

It's not clear why the cages get flooded in the first place - but then again I don't raise mice, so I wouldn't know. However, there are three ways to dry these creatures, and I gather you want something that won't traumatize them. You could 1) absorb the water from them, 2) heat the water on them, 3) place them somewhere that is extremely dry. Number 3 is probably the most humane. The first two options could be a bit oppressive for them. So, here's how you dry them without touching them: Build an airtight cage that can hold as many of them as you might have to salvage from flooded cages in a day. On one side, include an air lock big enough to hold all your mice. Equip the airtight cage with close-able vents near the top to allow the expulsion of the air it contains. Install also a means of connecting a supply of liquified air near the bottom. Furnish it sparsely with excelsior or wood chips. Connect a bottle of liquified air, via a pressure-metering valve, to the cage, and use it to blow most of the contained air out of the valves at the top. The liquified air will have extremely low humidity, and will initially be chilled, so it will tend to settle at the bottom of the box, displacing the warmer, more humid ambient air out the vents. After a bit of blowing, close the supply valve and the vents, and allow the wood chips to settle, Then you can introduce the damp mice via the airlock. Let them gambol about while you see to the flooded cages, and they'll emerge nice and dry, without anyone laying a finger on them.

Just like how Ma dried the laundry. Hang ''em by the tail on a clothesline with clothespins