There’s a mouse in my office. First, I screamed like a banshee, and now I’m afraid to go back in there. I have no idea what it is I’m afraid of since the mouse is tiny but it’s terrifying.
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There’s a mouse in my office. First, I screamed like a banshee, and now I’m afraid to go back in there. I have no idea what it is I’m afraid of since the mouse is tiny but it’s terrifying.
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“a mouse in my office”
Doubtless sent by the Dean!
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Dude is so manly, he’d be screaming louder than me if he saw the mouse.
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It’s true though that I did see the Dean lurking around my floor of the building right before the mouse appeared.
Hmmm. Food for thought.
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Grok came up with 3 scientifically plausible explanations in seconds. Ask it. There are several “good” evolutionary reasons.
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Don’t be afraid of mice, Clarissa. When I was a child, my parents and I we lived in an old house which was infested with mice. One of my oldest memories is of my mother using a broom to kill a mouse. The poor little mouse had blood running down its ears. Why don’t you go to work with a broom? You’d feel safer. Also, my parents used mouse-traps, which worked.
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Thank you for adding to my plight with images of mice bleeding from their ears. 😂😂 I’ve already almost had a heart attack over this one.
I knew it stank with a recognizable stench in the office but didn’t want to accept the truth.
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Alternatively you could try taming the mouse. When I was in college I was in the dorms over the summer. The dorm was mostly empty and I ended up with a little church mouse as a roommate. It was quite a skittish little thing, but would move about as long as I didn’t loot directly at it.
So I would put out saltine crackers for it to eat. Where I could watch it out of the corner of my eye. I quite enjoyed the company.
Alternatively to the alternative if you really don’t want the mouse to stick around, you can get these sticky traps and put some cheese in them and it will catch the mouse but not harm it. Then you can ask someone from animal control to take it and release it somewhere it can roam free.
But really, the mouse is not anything to be scared about. Mice are vastly more terrified of you than you are of them.
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sticky traps can be very harmful and gruesome – not recommended!
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We prefer snap traps. The chomper looking ones, not the wire-and-board type. Fewer escapees that way.
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Yes, I was going to say the same thing. The sticky traps usually have poison in them, so if the mouse is released (you have to pour cooking oil around its feet to get it unstuck, and I doubt that your facilities people would bother) it’s getting poison into the food chain and might wind up killing someone’s cat, or a hawk or owl. Traditional traps are more humane, as they break the mouse’s neck and it’s a quick death. You can get live traps and release the mouse outside, although (a) it’s illegal to release “wild animals” on other people’s property, and (b) the mouse will probably become a meal for some predator very quickly, both because it’s no longer in familiar territory and because it will have been traumatized by being trapped. Still, you might prefer a mouse that feeds a hawk, owl, fox, coyote or cat to a plain old dead mouse that doesn’t do anyone any good.
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I used a green plastic humane mouse trap when I had one, it worked, and I released the mouse in a park somewhere. The whole ordeal was nerve-wracking, but I didn’t want to deal with a dead mouse in a trap.
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Hmm, I don’t know Kid, being scared of a terrified wee mouse…starting to doubt your claim of being a fearsome feminist ;-D
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I’m still shaking, and it’s been hours.
It’s all because of pork rinds. I left two packages of pork rinds before going on vacation. And when I came back, the packaging was shredded and the pork rinds half gone.
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“all because of pork rinds”
Huh? You don’t seem like the pork rind type… were they left over from some function?
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I discovered them recently as a great diabetic snack. I now need to eat every 3 hours, and it’s an adventure to figure out what it can be. Everything that is a snack for normal people is out. Everything else requires refrigeration. There’s a limit on how many cheese crisps and peanuts a person can eat.
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They make my mouth feel like I’ve been chewing broken glass, if I overindulge.
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Kid, I was just giving you the gears, many, quite possibly most women, cannot stand mice, may well even be an adaptive maternal trait. There is a deadly virus in New Mexico carried by Deer Mice. My wife absolutely hated rodents but once hand-fed her bag of peanuts to an obviously nursing female chipmunk.
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