Even though the Animal UprisingTM tries to unify all animals in their war against man, the old rivalries die hard. So it is that mice in Canada have wreaked wrathful rodent revenge on their historic tormentors, cats. Call it a game of cat and mouse – with arson.
A fire that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near Toronto may have been started by mice, say officials.
Three dogs and several rats also died in the blaze at the Humane Society shelter in Oshawa.
Preliminary reports by a fire marshall indicate that the fire started in the ceiling and was probably caused by mice chewing through electrical wires.
Of course, the propensity of rodent arsonists to use electricity creatively is nothing new.
More than 3,100 Entergy customers in the vicinity of East Harding Avenue lost power Friday morning after a squirrel caused damage to an electricity substation at Idaho Street and Sixth Avenue.
But that activity is usually aimed at humans. This is the first time we can remember that mice have staged a cat cook off.
Once again your ground breaking coverage of the Animal Uprising is par excellence.
I have personally observed an attack on an electrical transformer by a squirrel suicide frier. It was not a pretty sight. The Animal Uprising becomes more bold all the time!