Saturday, December 20, 2008
Murine revenge
With all the abuse that mice have taken from cats over the years, this was probably inevitable:
Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say.
The fire at the humane society shelter in Oshawa also killed three dogs and some rats that were up for adoption.
An initial report from the fire marshal says mice or rats chewing through electrical wires in the ceiling are likely to have sparked the blaze.
A spokesman for the mice said they "regretted" that dogs and rats died in the blaze, but noted that they went to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties and that they occur in every war.
CWCID: Jungle Trader.
5 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Dec 20, 10:17:00 PM:
I guess this is called poetic justice.
Once I read that a guy was having a bonfire out of his house/trailer, and he caught a mouse and threw it into the fire. The mouse caught fire, jumped out of the fire and ran into the guy's home, and burned it down. I don't know (possibly neither anyone else) if the mouse survived, but I guess this is poetic justice squared.
Vilmos
By 
Anthony, at
Sat Dec 20, 10:29:00 PM:
Apparently the mice died in the fire, too. That would make this a suicide mission. Therefore, I suspect these were jihadist mice.
Mickey Akbar!
By JPMcT, at
Sat Dec 20, 11:51:00 PM:
Sorry to hear the mice died. My wife has four cats and I was going to look into hiring a hitmouse.
By Dan Kauffman, at
Sun Dec 21, 06:15:00 AM:
A Manifesto by the Rodent Liberation Army, promised further Martyr events
and
DEATH TO THE FELINE OPPRESSERS!
By , at
Sun Dec 21, 08:36:00 AM:
The manifesto continued that Garfield, the only cat who tolerates mice, will be spared as long as he agrees to become a eunuch and dhimmi and pays the zakat at the rate of 2.5% of all his lasagna.
JLW III
