# So a guy releases a mouse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461 "2014-07-06T03:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/1 "2014-07-06T03:28:52Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EiDn2_TCLM4/hqdefault.jpg "\*Ouch\* Hawk Snatches Released Mouse") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiDn2_TCLM4) A West Point cadet had a mouse in his room. He went so far as to name it “Whiskers” Then he releases it into the wild. The video is just over a minute, and very mundane and pointless. But I couldn’t resist posting it. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/2 "2014-07-06T03:52:38Z")
Reminds me of the story of a rescue group that found an injured seal, spend months and thousands of dollars nursing it back to health, only for it to be eaten by an orca after 5 minutes of being released into the wild. As one of the YouTube commenters put it “didn’t do much for the mouse but a nice meal for the bird” ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/3 "2014-07-06T04:03:38Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Reminds me of the story of a rescue group that found an injured seal, spend months and thousands of dollars nursing it back to health, only for it to be eaten by an orca after 5 minutes of being released into the wild. > > As one of the YouTube commenters put it “didn’t do much for the mouse but a nice meal for the bird” I once found a cricket in the office. I captured it with my hands, went to the front door, and tossed it into the air. It flew about ten feet, and then a bird swooped out of a tree and snatched it in mid-air. I’m assuming the negative karma for killing the cricket is balanced by the positive karma from freeing the cricket and feeding the bird. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/4 "2014-07-06T04:13:58Z")
I used to put sunflower seed on top of a wooden fence post in our back yard in Buffalo. Chickadees became so tame they would eat them right off my hand. There were a dozen, or more, there at one time… then came the peregrine falcon some people had been spotting around town. Suddenly, the chickadees, minus one, left the area. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/5 "2014-07-06T04:52:00Z")
Reminds me of a Funniest Home Video clip, where the family was seated at the backyard picnic table with a pet hamster on the table. In a flash some big bird scooped it up. Probably wasn’t so funny for the poor kid who lost a pet. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/6 "2014-07-06T11:37:04Z")
The mouse was just going to head straight back to the buildings anyway. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/7 "2014-07-06T15:03:39Z")
I once made a birdwatching trip to Duluth in winter, to see the kinds of birds you can only see in Duluth in winter. Two of my target birds were the Boreal Chickadee and the Northern Shrike. Both had been reported lurking in a few ornamental trees near a camera shop. I arrived in town and went in the camera shop to make inquiry. I was told that the Shrike had eaten the Chickadee, then left and hadn’t been seen since. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/8 "2014-07-06T15:06:44Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Reminds me of a Funniest Home Video clip, where the family was seated at the backyard picnic table with a pet hamster on the table. In a flash some big bird scooped it up. Probably wasn’t so funny for the poor kid who lost a pet. I saw that clip, and I thought it was a total setup. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/9 "2014-07-06T15:12:02Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Reminds me of the story of a rescue group that found an injured seal, spend months and thousands of dollars nursing it back to health, only for it to be eaten by an orca after 5 minutes of being released into the wild. > > As one of the YouTube commenters put it “didn’t do much for the mouse but a nice meal for the bird” That was an ad for Shark Week. [Snuffy The Seal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YQBulqQSNw) [The seal and orca was a fake story.](http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.asp) ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/10 "2014-07-06T16:25:39Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That was an ad for Shark Week. [Snuffy The Seal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YQBulqQSNw) > > [The seal and orca was a fake story.](http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.asp) Well, I sit corrected. I actually had never seen the ad for Shark Week, it must have been that snopes thing that I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/11 "2014-07-07T13:53:06Z")
Good news: [Snuffy lives](http://youtu.be/jX-qQSB3KZU). ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/12 "2014-07-07T14:38:16Z")
There was a problem with rats at the Bryant Park subway station, so they put some hawks in Bryant Park. The hawks ate the rats. Then one of the hawks ate a lady’s chihuahua. Now the hawks are gone. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/13 "2014-07-07T15:09:53Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > There was a problem with rats at the Bryant Park subway station, so they put some hawks in Bryant Park. The hawks ate the rats. > > Then one of the hawks ate a lady’s chihuahua. > > Now the hawks are gone. ☹ Wouldn’t that be considered a win/win? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/14 "2014-07-07T15:10:58Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Then one of the hawks ate a lady’s chihuahua. > > Now the hawks are gone. ☹ Are chihuahuas poisonous? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-guy-releases-a-mouse/692461/15 "2014-07-07T19:10:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Are chihuahuas poisonous? Just spicy I guess.