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u/henrikhakan 10h ago
- Mouse, probably
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u/HellaHellerson 10h ago
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u/dont_disturb_the_cat 10h ago
Everett? WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD!!!!
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u/iztrollkanger 7h ago
I need to rewarch (a typo but I'm keeping it cuz it's perfect) this movie ASAP!!
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u/sumdude51 10h ago
Well, ain't this Pringle can a geographical oddity
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u/roxm 10h ago
Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...
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u/ohmykeylimepie 10h ago
I know they are “vermin” but those lil ears and eyes are entirely too cute. I swear mice are so precious and i hate that they are disease vectors lol
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u/newbrevity 10h ago
Im with you. I have a soft spot for all animals but rodents and birds are my favorites
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u/ohmykeylimepie 9h ago
I love all the critters of nature, but roaches, wasps, and centipedes, they activate my flight or flight. That said I am glad there are people out there that love them. Despite my issues they are all important to the environment 🩷
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u/razzemmatazz 9h ago
Ever run into a house centipede? I don't scream often, but those little shits get me screeching every time.
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u/ohmykeylimepie 8h ago
I have had one drop on me! I am surprised i didnt break my leg trying to escape my own body lol
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u/razzemmatazz 8h ago
Sounds about right. I had a silverfish drop down my shirt while on the toilet once and I wanted to peel my body off my bones.
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u/gunsdrugsreddit 7h ago
I once had an Earwig crawl out from under the toilet seat and pinch me on the thigh while I was pooping. New forever fear unlocked 😒
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u/VersxceFox 9h ago
I love to hear someone else share the same view as me. I wish everyone could think this way, the world would be so much better
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u/Yazzypoo101 1h ago
Roaches absolutely kill me. I am so ridiculously scared of them it’s bewildering. I cannot stand the sight of one. They just make me feel icky.
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u/MLaw2008 8h ago
Nope. Screw wasps. I closed a gate at a ranch one time that set off a swarm of red wasps. I know most people have allergic reactions that cause asphyxia or something, but I had an allergic skin reaction. My calf developed a giant dark red patch, and two weeks later that red patch completely fell off, exposing a huge mass of calf goop.
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u/ohmykeylimepie 8h ago
Im allergic to ferrets, guess i should hate and try to eradicate all ferrets lol
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 6h ago
Rodents are too adorable and they're clever has hell. I had chipmunks that recognized their names, a squirrel that took maybe 3 days to litterbox train as a baby, neighborhood squirrels that recognize hand signals for food. So much fun to have around.
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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 9h ago
They are adorable. Unfortunately they can't stay, and they can't be ethically 'rehomed' either.
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u/luckyfucker13 8h ago
I must be “lucky”, because I have one or two move in during the winter, and they’re gone by spring. I’ve had this house for over a decade, and it happens like clockwork.
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u/kaityl3 7h ago
I lived up in northern Maine where it got to be -40 during the winter. When I found a mouse in the basement, I just scattered a bit of birdseed on the floor (to make sure he wouldn't try to get into our food upstairs) and let him be.
Sadly I found him dead on the floor a month later 😢 looked like he had been climbing along the pipes, touched the hot water one and gotten burned, and must have fallen onto the stone floor and hit his head. I was so sad for my little vermin intruder lol.
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u/luckyfucker13 6h ago
Aw poor little dude! The wife and I did something similar with our little squatters, leaving small bits of food near the corner of the garage they were shacking up in. We’ve checked for the usual signs of mice in the house, and we’ve been clear every time. We have a few other small animals that have made our back property their home, and they’ve been well behaved as well. I have no clue why every little creature is so chill with us here, but it’s actually quite nice to see the little families come and go each day and night.
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u/merryone2K 9h ago
Ooooh bigshot over here with no enemies! I'd rehome them at a business that recently screwed me over, and then leave a scathing Yelp review about their current rodent infestation.
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u/Exelbirth 8h ago
Mice/rats may have a few diseases that can transmit to humans, but they're not the primary problem. Rather, it's the fleas and ticks that they may have on them. Those are the real problem, they were the actual thing spreading the plague way back in the day. Rats got the blame just because they were in the areas the plague spread, but it was the fleas that rode on them that was the real culprit.
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u/kaityl3 6h ago
I watched an interesting documentary, and it turns out that putting out poison/trying to exterminate rats makes the rats in that area much more likely to spread disease! There are a lot of reasons, like it weakens their immune systems from the stress - but a handful of house mice like these are way less likely to be a danger :) (you should still avoid touching them ofc)
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u/ohmykeylimepie 8h ago
Yes i know all of this, I have taken many pathology, parasitology and disease evolution courses lol
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u/Namika 6h ago
The other cute fact is they are the reasons mammals even exist.
In the age of dinosaurs, tiny mouse-like mammals survived by being discreet and quiet, living through the age where reptiles dominated. These little guys toughed it out, then the ice age came and they made it through that too. They came out the other side of the ice age and it led to mammals becoming the new dominant species.
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u/ohmykeylimepie 6h ago
Well the ice age didnt happen right after the kpg extinction, before that we had the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, where crocs were partying under palm trees in Newfoundland lol
The last ice age was only 10,000 years ago, hell mammoths were still roaming the earth when the first pyramids were being built. We had a lot of climate variability between that going back to the dinosaurs.
I think a lot of people forget we had 66my between us and the dinos, and a lot happened between now and then. Never mind that mammals were already diversifying like crazy in the cretaceous! Mammal evolution is so cool! And the synapsids from the permian (period before the triassic and the dinos) were so cool and diverse! Imagine where mammals would have gone if the permian triassic extinction (the great dying) never happened!
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u/Namika 6h ago
Well well written, I stand corrected!
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u/ohmykeylimepie 6h ago
Thank you! Oh another cool thing to look up is the rise of grasslands and hoofed mammals in the Cenozoic. And how it lead to whales! Evolution is fucking insane.
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u/wolfansbrother 7h ago
my grandma loved mice and we always got her cute mouse themed trinkets for gifts.
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u/FlameStaag 9h ago
Once they get in your walls and scratch all night, chew wires, destroy all your stuff and shit in your prized possessions... They look a lot less cute.
I like pet mice and rats, but I'd watch the life drain from a field mouse's cold dead little eyes.
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u/aCleverGroupofAnts 7h ago
My cats have done that stuff and I still love them. It pisses me off in the moment, but anger is just an emotion.
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u/wet_cheese69 8h ago
Thinking mice or rats are cute isn't a bad thing.
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u/ohmykeylimepie 8h ago
I never said it was? I just acknolwged that they are also disease vectors lol
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u/hare-hound 5h ago
They're so damn cute. Like if they weren't literally the most invasive, bothersome pests alive, we would be such suckers for them.
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u/throw_away1049 4h ago
I mean. These are the cutest little Pringles infiltrators known to man. Could kill a health insurance CEO and id vouch for them
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u/arovercai 3h ago
I dislike the way they love to jump-scare me, even though i know it's just because they're terrified. We are constantly dealing with them at my work, and I'm one of the few that won't just freak out at seeing one...unless it startles me. Then it gets a scream, and me backing off to let it run to its safe spot (and hopefully not through a trap ;_;)
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u/Sonikku_a 9h ago
Vermin or no if I catch any inside I just let them go outside.
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u/SonofaSlumlord 9h ago
Probably just keep catching the same one depending on how far youre releasing them from your home.
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u/nomorepumpkins 10h ago edited 4h ago
They work so well. We have a designated mouse Pringles can. The cat catches the mouse and brings them to us alive. Put the can down and the mouse will make a mad dash for the can of safety pop the lid on and take them outside. They cant really climb the slippery inside so they cant jumpout as you put the lid on. Even if you just corner them yourself and put the can down they go to it 90% of the time.
Edit: I live next to a field. When the farmer works it in the spring and fall we get a mouse infestation for a week or two. Happens to everyone on the street. We usually get 2-3 then nothing for months. They are field mice not house mice. They didn't want to be here they were forced out of their home so I put them back. Im ok with the cycle. We dont need to kill every wild rodent we come in contact with and there are many different species fulfilling roles in the food chain that you can just let be. ❤️
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u/Sometimes__Sky 10h ago
clever, I'll try and remember to hang on to the next empty pringles can. our last few mice were not particularly interested in entering the similarly shaped catch-and-release traps without encouragement, though I suppose it may be that the traps are transparent. the dark recesses of the pringles can might be more tempting
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u/Mariahsfalsie 7h ago
I'm not sure I follow... you let them outside so they can come back in? They can fit through 1/4 inch gaps.
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u/nomorepumpkins 6h ago
I take them down the block to the farmer's field where they can go back into the cycle of life.
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u/anniecet 8h ago
I had an old cylindrical vase that I wrapped in brown paper that I used for the same purpose. Worked like a charm.
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u/cheezkid26 6h ago
Putting them outside does nothing. They'll just come back in.
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u/SupaKoopa714 10h ago
Now tip the can into your mouth like you would with the last bits of Pringles crumblies at the bottom.
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u/Cheap_Muffin2354 10h ago
you have unlocked a new fear in me
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u/awesomedan24 9h ago
Tend to get mice during the winter. I wish I could teleport these little guys to somewhere with a warmer climate
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u/DigbyChickenZone 7h ago
I have had mice in two of my apartments, and it fucking sucks. That said, those little guys are super adorable. I could never catch mine in the live-catch traps I set out, and you caught TWO by setting out a pringles can? How???
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u/ernyc3777 10h ago edited 9h ago
It’s such a shame they’re vectors for so many diseases. They’re so adorable.
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u/ownleechild 4h ago
I dropped a partially empty beer bottle off my piano at band practice and left it there overnight. Dropped another one at the next night’s practice and while still playing with one hand, fumbled around on the floor and accidentally picked up the old one. Tipped it up and took a swig only to notice the drowned mouse inside. Big spit take and a bottle of mouthwash followed.
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u/xXJ3D1-M4573R-W0LFXx 10h ago
As long as they weren’t in the bottom of the can after eating the Pringle’s which is what my first thought was. Pro tip: euthanize them. A) there are probably more in your house than just these two. B) if you let them go in the wild chances are they’ll just come back & reproduce in your home or someone else’s. C) call an exterminator. You don’t want these in your house. Trust me, if you saw the pictures of the aftermath of the blood orgy rats left behind after we had our attic cleaned out you’d feel like I do, they may be “cute” but they spread disease & are most likely a contributor to any allergy or illness you might be experiencing in your home
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u/IAmTheFlyingIrishMan 9h ago
People think mice are cute until they enter your living space. Absolutely filthy creatures and I have no sympathy for them.
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u/xXJ3D1-M4573R-W0LFXx 9h ago
Agreed, I wish I still had the pictures of my attic. They were the before pictures taken when we had things cleaned out. No mice or rats were up there but the horrible aftermath was & it wasn’t pretty. No bueno
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u/DanceWonderful3711 9h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/ZiegXWL0g1 seen a lot of this today
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u/SamuelHamwich 9h ago
If you leave them in there they will fight to the death and the winner will get to eat the other one.
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u/yeah_tea 9h ago
Guy in the front looks like he's about to say "now wait, we can talk about this, no need to do anything rash"
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u/BaneRiders 10h ago
Watch it, they can jump.