At around 11:00 P.M. on Monday night, a few Loeb Hall residents discovered, caught, and released an additional mouse to their previous rodent infestation earlier this winter.
After returning from her 2D Integrated Design class, Nikki Jean Walker, a resident of Loeb Hall dorm room 7D-2, noticed the same mouse that ran rampant through her dorm room before Thanksgiving break.
“It was dragging its back leg behind it because it was broken,” said Walker.
Walker texted her roommate, Kierra Ray, to notify her about their injured visitor.
“I [told her] I fell in love with the mouse because its leg was broken and it was just chillin’ next to me,” said Walker.
Ray immediately inquired about the mouse after coming back to the dorm when she got off of work.
Soon after, an uninjured mouse emerged from under the refrigerator and ran across the kitchen floor.
“I figured it was a different mouse because it was running faster and its leg was not broken.”
After calming down after their initial shock, Walker and Ray watched the mouse calmly walk around and stop to rest on a dishtowel that was on the floor. Walker requested the assistance of Tyler Howorth, a Loeb Hall resident on the same floor to pick up the mouse and put it an a small empty trashcan.
Pavla Kostich, a resident of Loeb Hall who resides on the ninth floor and regularly visits Walker’s room remembers seeing the mouse a few times while conversing in the kitchen.
“It was so cute. It just scattered around the floor and Nikki was so grossed out,” said Kostich.
The two Loeb Hall residents are now worried about additional mice that may be present in their room and kitchen.
“I’m kind of lying to myself and telling myself that it was the same mouse,” said Walker.
However, it actually was a different mouse. Both Walker and Ray believe that the mouse was a newborn because of its small size. They think that the initial mouse may have given birth.
Emily Butter, a Loeb hall resident who lives across the hall from Walker and Ray is concerned about the rodent infestation spreading to her room.
“I wouldn’t as scared as I would be annoyed,” said Butter.
If mice do appear in Butter’s room, she said she wouldn’t use traps because of her sympathy for animals.
Walker and Ray felt the same way. After Howorth placed the mouse inside the trashcan, Ray and Kostich released the mouse outside on the sidewalk. They left the trashcan outside with a small bit of cheese.
“We didn’t want it to be too cold or hungry,” said Kostich.
However, Walker was not as compassionate as Ray and Kostich.
“I forgot about it as soon as they took it outside,” said Walker.
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