One New Thing: Animal Rescue?

Today I took Elliot to Nancy's, and he immediately rushed to the bathroom. When he came out he yelled "A MOUSE!" I peeked around the corner and sure enough there was the cutest little mouse! We debated on what to do. He wasn't moving so I thought he was sick. My first assumption was that he had been poisoned, so I wanted to get him outside. But then it was getting so cold out! I was hoping he'd just run into a hole and solve this dilemma for me. But the poor little guy just sat there. In the end Elliot pulled out some toilet paper and paper towel tubes from his backpack and trapped him in there.

This happened while Nancy was in session with another kid. When she came to get Elliot, he told her about the mouse in the tube. She let him take it back into the room, thinking he was playing a joke. He quickly came out of the room with the tube when she realized there was really a mouse in there! 

After Nancy's, we took the little mouse to let him go at the park. Elliot was NOT happy about this. He wanted to take him home, so there were many tears. I wanted to take him home too, but the fact that he was sick was not good. And I kept thinking about how all the awful hemorrhagic fevers and other mystery diseases are always traced back to mice. And we are in Rabies City, USA. So I couldn't take the chance, especially with little Poppers. I found a wild looking, fenced off section of the park and poured him out. I hope he recovers out in the wild and that a nice little mouse family takes him in.