The mouse in my house

Never heard of anyone writing about mouse. This mouse is special because we don’t intend it to leave our house. Today, as I was reading newspaper I found the mouse having a feast of mustard seeds placed on a plastic lid of a container. I immediately told my mother to throw the seeds off so that we don’t have any chance of a sickness.

Mouse is pretty common in Indian home. There is even a temple in our home country where there are lots of mice and they are considered auspicious. Science has a different answer to it. They say mice can never be auspicious because they are unhygienic and will bring forth sickness and illness to the people in the vicinity. With Ganesh Chaturthi coming nearer, we remember mouse as a vehicle of the lord himself. The mouse is proud to relate itself to the lord. That is the only reason when we are proud being with a mouse.

This mouse in my house regularly eats up my papers as and when it feels. It has destroyed 4 of my precious notepads. I had to bind it later. Is there any remedy for this warfare with the mice which destroys and makes things into bits and pieces? Earlier we thought of buying a rat poison. But that seemed too dangerous both for the mice and our existence. Then we remembered we had a rat catching cage. This too has gone old and doesn’t do its function properly. It needs some rest and repair. Who will repair it? A million dollar question. There are no rat cage repairers and if there was one he would have starved himself to death. There would have seldom any complain to this man. He is required no doubt but in some places where the infest is crowded. People in Mumbai are used to rats at times running in their houses. They see them as harmless. The problem here is that we see them and don’t know them. If we knew the history, geography and science of mice we would have armed ourselves with the latest guns, weapons and ammunitions.

Don’t take these mice easily. The harm they have done to the human race through out the history is more than even a World War has done. The mice were the enemy of the people who tricked Pied Piper as it is to us. Call Pied Piper. He is nowhere to be found.