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Meet the Marie Kondo of Mice — This Little Guy Spends His Nights Tidying Up the Garage

20/03/2019 - 04:50 PM

A man thought a ghost was cleaning up his tool shed, but it turned out to be a mouse! https://t.co/Zx6D2QZ6n2 [1] pic.twitter.com/sgYAmDleEv [2]

— New York Post (@nypost) March 19, 2019 [3]

When I lived in a ground floor apartment in New York city, I spent a considerable amount of time chasing and trying to capture mice. They'd hide in my oven, underneath the electric stove burners, and inside microscopic holes in baseboards. Never did I stop to think that these mice might've been swinging by my apartment to help me clean up the place.

Sound proposterous? It's not. In a now-viral Twitter thread that's been covered by a number of news outlets, England-based Stephen McKears, a retired technician, shares home footage of a strange mouse tidying up his tool shed [4]. After noticing that his garage was getting mysteriously organised each night, — large screws and bolts were getting put away — he set up a hidden camera to catch whatever uninvited figure (he thought it was a ghost) was sneaking into his shed each night to clean up his tools. What he found was a complete surprise. Not only was a mouse doing the labor, but the rodent was putting in serious sweat equity — McKears said he cleaned up for hours.

This little mouse deserves a day off, or cheese if you ask us.


Source URL
https://www.popsugar.co.uk/parenting/Mouse-Cleans-Up-Man-Garage-45940135