On Three Mysteries Solved or On Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Animals

[lhynard]

Well, I simultaneously solved three mysteries two nights ago:

1. What happened to the mouse I had in my apartment?
2. Why did my apartment start smelling last week?
3. What was that strange fan-motor-clicking sound that woke me up last week in the middle of the night?

I previously have marveled at the ability of mice to run behind furinture that is pressed tightly against a wall.[1] A few weeks ago I was also intigued by the ability of the mouse to climb hand-over-hand up the wire that runs from the floor up my wall to the ceiling-mounted speakers of my surround-soud system.

However, any amazement at the mouse's physical prowess has since been overwhelmed by my shock at its sheer stupidity.

I don't know how it climbed up a smooth plastic fan. I don't know how it squeezed its body through the fan grating. But more than that, I don't understand what would possess a mouse to try to squeeze itself through that grating while the fan was on and rotating. I don't know of anyone storing food inside a fan. I certainly do not.

Natural selection at work, I guess....

Suffice it to say that it was rather gross....