Got a text message from Trinette that JD won’t be posting today because of computer issues.
I really don’t have anything in the hopper, but I did recently come across a post about a man in Wales who thought he was having poltergeist invade his workshop.
Every night for months he would leave a mess of odds-and-ends scattered all over his workbench – and every day when he went back to putter, the place was tidied up with things placed in a wooden box.
Baffled long enough, he setup a camera with a special night-vision lens to find out what was happening.
And he got his answer: A tiny mouse with obvious OCD!
Shop owner Rodney Holbrook thought he was doing this to hide the birdfeeder nuts stored in the shop. But pest control expert Gareth Davies said, “Mice are like the magpies of the rodent world. They just collect things and hoard them because they think they’re prepping for the future and hard times.”
Dr. Megan Jackson from nearby University of Bristol explained that this is actually common behavior for mice. They scavenge and keep things in a safe place that they think might be useful. But she added that a good deal of what “Welsh Tidy Mouse” (Mr. Holbrook’s nickname) keeps in the box really wouldn’t be useful to build a nest – their primary goal.
She thinks the mouse simply enjoys the activity.
This isn’t the first time this kind of behavior was observed. A little over five years ago a mouse in Bristol was caught on video doing the same thing.
Steve McKears, the owner of the workbench, was relieved when a neighbor friend setup a night-vision camera and caught “Metal Mickey” moving the objects.
Mr. McKears was quite relieved when he saw the film. His previous two choices were ghosts or losing his mind.
