An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night

[fyp]

I saw this on reddit a few weeks ago and it actually had useful comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/dwj7i3/a_...

tl;dr; the mouse is nesting

[floatingatoll]

Relevant top comment:

> So this looks really cute and all, but what she's doing is nesting, and once she fills that box with hard stuff, she adds tufts of her own fur and possibly other soft stuff like fiberglass insulation or the stuffing from car seats, then she has her babies in there, all the while peeing all over those parts and causing them to rust and smell like mouse piss for ever more.

[ljp_206]

I couldn't find it with a few Google searches, but I recall an interview with a Bansky-like character who 'created' this video and story as a sort of viral art project. Her interview also included a few other examples of strange phenomena she was behind. Since I'm unable to find evidence of said interview, however, I'm doubting myself...

[chaosmachine]

Sounds like Zardulu

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/24/14912316/zardulu-viral...

[schemathings]

Reminds me of a book I had as a kid about Anatole the Mouse .. he would sneak into a cheese factory at night and taste the samples and leave tasting notes, which benefited the cheese factory .. [Anatole (mouse) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_%28mouse%29)

[rozab]

Are there any disney films which aren't plagiarised

[kylek]

This mouse would make some bucks if it had a Twitch channel with ads

[rebuilder]

In Finland, there's a lot of old folk tradition around "house elves" ("tonttu"), that sometimes perform useful tasks, sometimes not, but are best not angered in any case.

On the one hand, it's easy to see that mice rattling around could lead to such stories, but on the other hand, it's difficult to imagine people intimately familiar with mice being very mystified by them. However, if they do things like cleaning up in the night, I can imagine that might give rise to some myths!

[moj]

Reminds me of a strange story of mysterious 'modern art' arrangements, of leaves and twigs, that appeared every morning on a workshop stoop (spoiler, it was a fieldmouse): "Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary" https://www.amazon.com/Elenas-Messages-Her-Big-Sanctuary/dp/...

[fortran77]

I would think that if this mouse came by every day, he would have seen some tell-tale "droppings."

[newnewpdro]

Right, this is staged b.s.

Anyone with the slightest experience dealing with rodents knows there'd be droppings everywhere.

[rolph]

that sort of behavior is something to be delt with right away before other employees start doing it.

[cellular]

I bet a lot of people's haunted houses can be explained by animals (raccoons, rats, crows etc)

[EricE]

That's a determined mouse. Favorite quip in that article's comments:

"Probably not a teenage mouse." - ha!

[bdamm]

The mouse appears to be doing “cargo cult” type of behavior, placing junk in the bin and hoping peanuts will appear. Kind of like managers who hope that requesting documentation will help a better product appear on time. Fascinating.

[ripsawridge]

Your comment is delightful.

[ydnaclementine]

cute!

[dang]

Url changed from https://laughingsquid.com/mouse-cleans-up-tool-shed/, which points to this.