My differences with the Mus musculus (House mouse) invasions into my various homes are well documented here. Every December they invade… and ultimately cause me to leave my home, or to wage war against them. They showed up again 3 months ago, this time avoiding their earlier preference towards the month of December. Again, they were taken away in body bags, and our victory against this cell was swift.
I have just today come to learn that they were likely successful in their secret mission. Today I was reconnecting a television that had been moved due to renovations. So I put my thumb and index finger on the plug, and thrust it into the wall. What followed was rather unpleasant…. as I received what I consider to be a large shock (are their really small shocks issued from power plugs?). I was more or less unharmed, although my thumb remains a bit disgruntled over the experience. I took careful measures to remove the plug from the socket… this time avoiding any sort of painful electrical discharge into my fingers. So I scrutinized the wire… and noticed that various tiny teeth and eaten away at the hard plastic of the plug… and the plastic insulation of the wire. Tiny little bites all over…. you can even see the little grooves in their teeth etched into the plastic!
As is now obvious to everyone, this was clearly an assassination attempt. I am the only one who hooks up televisions, computers, and other electronic equipment in this household… and therefore they must have picked up on this and decided that it was a worthy angle to investigate. So while the culprits were removed from the crime scene, their work was already in place. However, I can declare victory in this matter, and far from being dead, am feeling rather fortunate to be left with only a sore thumb! I am still puzzled as to why they have marked me as a target of choice. The question is… they no doubt know their assassination attempt failed. What will they try next?