From: skybuckflying@gmail.com   
      
   I find the mouse to be very cute, not sure if male or female, doesn't matter   
   much to me. I suspect female but not sure, could also be male, he/she is very   
   brave and very intelligent and can climb very good apperently and I have seen   
   it in action. Very    
   playfull mouse =D   
      
   The mouse was too intelligent for the mouse trap ! ;) Perhaps I did not set it   
   up correctly the first time, then again, even the first time it might have   
   worked, I hard a slap, but somehow he escaped. Perhaps this mouse learned to   
   trigger the mouse trap    
   before eating the stuff inside.   
      
   Don't worry it's not a mouse trap to kill him, his face was way to cute for   
   that when I first saw him, then I thought probably male apperently.    
      
   It's a metal tunnel of wire and such... but I saw him and he is very weary...   
   so very funny how this mouse outsmarts human mouse trap. I borrowered it from   
   my half-sister.   
      
   I may have to purchase a more advanced/better one possibly one of plastic and   
   one which is much bigger, longer and more complex ! ;) =D   
      
   I invested their life span, not too long, 18 months usually, max 3 years or so.   
      
   He did make a huge message out of the balkony, enormous ammounts of mouse shit   
   and he tore up pizza boxes and some garbage bags, I cleaned that up todays,   
   poor some water of it, not yet entirely clean, need to poor some more water   
   later, but most of it    
   gone. I could smell the mouse shit pretty well when it was messy. Even if a   
   few turds lie here and there it's still smelleably I think... I find it kinda   
   funny/cute where he takes a shit, hard little things, like little chocolate   
   bars. Thankfully they    
   not sticky or wetty. Easy to pick up and dispose off... I can see where he has   
   been lol. I don't want him near my old Dream PC though, then I am going to get   
   a little bit pissed. I played a little bit of "kiekeboe" around the PC and I   
   scared him a bit !    
   That was good. I got back at him.   
      
   Cause earlier he scared me a few times. Came up to my foot and touched my foot   
   ! LOL and then he scrammed/fled. He like sneaking up to me, he is very good at   
   that, quite funny.   
      
   He also came towards me from the side, but I was a bit in darkness and I   
   yelled like crazy cause he scared me a lot and I didn't want him to teach me,   
   guess I think he is smelly and behind the kitchen sink where there is now his   
   new home.   
      
   He is quite neat for a mouse, he is well behaving mostly. He did eat a little   
   bit of paper from a pizza delivery ticket, which I spilled some garlock sauce   
   on... I was surprised he liked the paper with garlock sauce on it ! LOL.   
      
   I put some water for him down as well, but apperently according to wikipedia   
   they can survive without water as long as their food contains 15% of water.   
   Amazing and this explains a lot.   
      
   The main problem is, I can't really use my kitchen as long as he is there,   
   because then I am scared that he is going to shit under my microwave or fridge   
   or maybe even try and crawl inside or start chewing on cables but so far he   
   seemed to be well    
   behaved ! Amazing. There is some wall paper, tiny little bits where he likes   
   to crawl onto a kitchen table where my furnace/stove or whatever the english   
   name for it is, the pits with fire.... but it's sealed no biggy, he did crawl   
   into there though, on    
   the back, that might be a little bit dangerous.   
      
   I also saw him run across my floor, very cut I hope to film him on camera, but   
   he is a bit camera and noise and movement shy ! LOL.   
      
   I can see him run over the pipedrain towards the sewer/toilet you could say,   
   kinda funny, I can also hear him jump down on there.   
      
   I can also hear him if he touches glass bottles but I through those away or if   
   he is on the metal hull of the furnace/fire pits, quite funny.   
      
   The most funny part is his sneak up abilities, those absolutely amazing ! LOL.   
   Sometimes I can hear him a little bit.   
      
   I like him very much, I am thinking of keeping him, but I fear otherwise like   
   my mother might not understand until she maybe sees him better on movie/video.   
      
   I already know I am going to miss him =D   
      
   I also wonder if he is maybe the reincarnate of my father or something but   
   probably not, then again ya never know ! LOL.   
      
   I also wondered if maybe Aliens depositted him to teach me how cute certain   
   animals can be and try and get along with them.   
      
   Through his movements he is trying to communicate with me, that I can tell. He   
   wants some contact with me and slowly wants me to get used to him and vice   
   versa.   
      
   I can imagine that this mouse went through hell on the balkony eating through   
   those bags and pizza boxes and now he is  very happy that he is comfortable   
   inside.   
      
   I also learned something amazing on wikipedia, apperently these home-mouses   
   can sign at ultra high frequencies beyond human hearing to sign to their   
   females.   
      
   Apperently there is also some logic behind it. So this I like... I feel like   
   this is a logical thinking creature a little bit like a tiny little   
   programmer, a smart/intelligent creator.   
      
   At least this specimen deserves a much better fate than death by scary mouse   
   trap ! =D I wish other people would take the time to learn to know their   
   mouses a little bit better than just killing them. My half-sister claims to   
   have captured 10 mouses    
   outside of her home in the backyard and then she releases them onto a field   
   much further away, but without their family these young mouses won't survive   
   that long, so this is not so good...  but she don't want to have the mouse   
   shit in her backyard, she    
   does have a rabbit though.   
      
   I wonder if there is maybe a better solution, wikipedia seems to hint at   
   putting down some strategically placed oil mint oder or something, I will try   
   and tell her this...   
      
   This/my mouse so far has intelligently enough extracted the food from the   
   mouse trap without getting caught. I will continue to try and trap it.   
      
   At least I don't have to feel bad for me trying to starve him (not to death,   
   but just so he eats from mouse trap) or maybe becomes weakened so he comes to   
   me maybe then I can catch him, but it doesn't feel quite right.   
      
   Not feeding the mouse might also back-fire, he might start chewing on cables,   
   paper and other things.   
      
   So for people worried about electronics, cables, paper, etc my advice would be   
   to: feed the mouse a little bit, at least he don't chew through cables then   
   and such.   
      
      
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