Animals who like tidying up are typically the stuff of fairytales and films - a fantasy. But one man has recently discovered that neat freak animal visitors can actually be very real indeed.
Stephen Mckears, 72 from Severn Beach in South Gloucester noticed that objects kept moving around his shed. Every day he would empty a plastic tub full of small metal objects onto a table and every morning he would find all of those objects neatly back inside the tub.
He began to doubt his own mind, not understanding how the objects were being moved every night. His children had theories about it being a ghost. "One day I emptied the tub out and spread the contents on the side - and the the next day they were all back in again. I thought I was going mad" he told the Daily Mail.
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After this kept happening for weeks on end, he decided enough was enough. He wanted to know who it was tidying up after him every night. Mckears enlisted the help of his neighbour Rodney Holbrook, 70 to set up a night camera and film what was happening in his shed.
After both of them had seen the footage, they were surprised to find that it was a tiny mouse that was tidying the shed. This mouse had been doing it every night for around a month between the hours of midnight and 2.30am.
The mouse, now nicknamed Metal Mickey has also acquired another one. "I've been calling him Brexit Mouse because he's been stockpiling for Brexit," says Mckears.
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In recent years we've seen all kinds of animals behaving weirdly, from the hypnotic spiral-shaped hive of stingless Australian bees to the lion and the bear that politely shook hands. But none are as steadfast to keeping things in order as this mouse is. If only everyone was as mouse-proud as Metal Mickey.
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