\nI think I just met the stupidest<\/i> mouse in the world, which is saying alot considering we are talking about a mouse.\n<\/p>\n
\nAs I walked up to the door to my apartment building, I saw one of the neighbourhood cats sitting on the sidewalk, so I decided to take a short detour to say hello. As I got closer I realized it was intently watching something on the sidewalk in front of it, and as I got even closer I realized that, yes, it was a mouse. But it was quite alive and quite unharmed, and the cat was pretty much just watching it. As I stepped closer however, the mouse decided it was time to make a break for it and started to scuttle along the sidewalk, cat in tow.\n<\/p>\n
\nI caught up to the two of them and picked up the cat so the mouse could make its escape, and what does it do? It stops<\/i>. The mouse just sits there as the cat tries to wriggle out of my arms. So I blew on the mouse and it continued for another few inches and then stopped again. I bent down to hurry it along a bit more, and had to put the cat back on the ground, but (being a cat) it was distracted by the fact that I was scratching its head, so the mouse was still safe.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd what does the mouse do? It turns around and walks right back under the cat’s feet<\/b><\/i> thereby attracting the cat’s attention again. The cat only made a feeble attempt at actually catching the mouse, opting instead to just watch it and swat near it every once in a while.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis was repeated two of three more times (me holding the cat and trying to get the mouse to run – without actually touching the mouse ’cause you know how germy they are – and the mouse just turning around and scurrying right back into the cat’s grasp) before I finally gave up and bid them good riddance – the mouse for being so dumb, and the cat for not knowing what to do with a mouse when it is under its paws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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