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13 years ago
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So... playing with my mare, 
, I needed a bathroom break.
Went, doing my thing when I hear a clunk.
I thought it was the shower, something was wrong with the pipes, then above me, I see a mouse, sticking its head up over the lights.
Our bathroom lights consist of 4 heater lights and a normal light in the middle. Above all of them is a fan.
How the mouse got past the fan, I have no idea but it decides to jump out and into the shower which is closed off from every side as the door was shut.
So, got a towel, chased it around the shower for a bit before it ran over my foot, (Was wearing flip flops so bare foot) and escaped the shower.
The bathroom was closed so I managed to keep it contained and safe from our 3 cats as I chased it around the bathroom for a minute.
Finally had it cornered as it tried to climb the corner, literally scurrying on the corner for a couple seconds before falling back to the ground.
I managed to catch it and bring it outside.
Honestly, I wanted to keep it but didn't think it would be safe in a house of cats, and nowhere to put it anyway.
I let it out in the grass as it didn't seem to want to move, I think it was a house mouse.
Eventually hid in the grass before I left.
, I needed a bathroom break.Went, doing my thing when I hear a clunk.
I thought it was the shower, something was wrong with the pipes, then above me, I see a mouse, sticking its head up over the lights.
Our bathroom lights consist of 4 heater lights and a normal light in the middle. Above all of them is a fan.
How the mouse got past the fan, I have no idea but it decides to jump out and into the shower which is closed off from every side as the door was shut.
So, got a towel, chased it around the shower for a bit before it ran over my foot, (Was wearing flip flops so bare foot) and escaped the shower.
The bathroom was closed so I managed to keep it contained and safe from our 3 cats as I chased it around the bathroom for a minute.
Finally had it cornered as it tried to climb the corner, literally scurrying on the corner for a couple seconds before falling back to the ground.
I managed to catch it and bring it outside.
Honestly, I wanted to keep it but didn't think it would be safe in a house of cats, and nowhere to put it anyway.
I let it out in the grass as it didn't seem to want to move, I think it was a house mouse.
Eventually hid in the grass before I left.
Besides, I wanted to keep it, but it was more dangerous at home since we didn't have a safe place to put it, out of reach from the cats.
Well done hun
The towel was just an initial protection for no know where it had been and if any diseases it carried.
Indeed, the selling point of rodent and pest control organizations to have you employ their services or buy their products is that over the last century, 10 million people have died as a cause of contracting rodent transmitted diseases. I won't break this down into how many cases were caused by rats, mice or whatever rodent, to be more general.
It seems that with our current population, about 56,6 million people die each year, as calculated by a consistent percentage. It will be harder to calculate this number all the way back to 1912, but lemme try. According to the current human mortality rate, about 0,8% of the world population dies each year. I'm rather sure this rate would higher 100 years ago, but again, I'm being generous with these statistics towards being very concerned about mice harbouring deadly diseases, benefit of the doubt.
Looking up world population numbers for 1912, I find a rough 1.7 billion. Applying the death rate of 0,8%, 13,6 million people have died in 1912. Again, it's likely this number is higher, but I can't find the actual statistics.
Now we put 13,6 and 56,6 together and get 70,2 million people dying every two years over the span of 1912 to 2012. Multiplied by 50 that's 3,51 billion people have died over the last 100 years. Nice :3
Now 10 million out of 3,51 billion comes down to 0,3% of all people that have died over the last 100 years have been because of rodent transmitted diseases. That's a bit more than I expected, but factor in that 100 years ago a lot more cases of disease were untreatable, higher mortality rates amongst infections and the fact that I came up with a pretty low overall death count, that percentage of mortality by rodent transmitted disease nowadays should be much lower in civilized areas with access to health care and all that.
Hope that helps :3
Yes...
I once saved a little mouse from my cat, it was just a young one but it was actually very calm when I held it