Sometimes, you wish you had your digital camera on and ready or that your eyes would be this Instamatic... I mean, usually i have my digital camera with me at all times but I had left it at home for once, when I went to my home university washroom to... come face to face with a mouse. No, not a lab mouse mind you, I work in the social sciences building. This was a genuine dirty gray mouse, very afraid of a big human, scrambling to find a hole and get the hell out of the place.

After several failed attempts to catch her with brown face paper wads, I cornered her with fallen ceilling parts and went out of the bathroom to get an empty Dole juice bottle. I managed to bottle her up and, as i figured, she couldn't jump out and I put the cap on. I showed the mouse to some of the people in the university, who immediately recoiled in repulsion and horror. Women AND men...
I figured if I handed the critter to the, ahem "authorities" it might get killed, so I just opened the bottle outside and set it free.
I did not feed it anything. I just gave it a second chance, that's all.
Weird how a small furry creature can instill feelings in us Humans.