Thankfully, he was given a helping hand.
Published on Aug 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
One evening earlier this week, Amandalyn Petitclerc and her fiancé, Cory, were at home when they noticed two of their three cats suddenly begin to act strangely. They were leaping up onto the couple’s dresser as if something there had them transfixed.
“No matter how many times Cory placed them back on the floor, the two of them hopped right back up,” Amandalyn told The Dodo.
The cats were trying to tell them something — and soon the couple learned exactly what it was.
Grabbing a flashlight, Amandalyn decided to investigate what had the cats so curious. Then she saw it.
“There it was: a wiggling tail and a set of ears,” Amandalyn said. “That’s all we saw before it slipped away behind and underneath the dresser.”
The couple decided to coax the little visitor out, but all they heard were tiny squeaks. Then they finally spotted him — and immediately understood why he couldn’t get away.
It was a tiny mouse who’d somehow managed to get himself trapped inside one of the cats’ plastic spring toys.
Fortunately, the mouse was uninjured, just scared. But being enveloped by the toy made it easy for Amandalyn to grab him and place him in the safety of an unused terrarium, out of reach of her cats.
Amandalyn, happy to be able to help, described the whole scenario as “ridiculous.”
Amandalyn and Cory then headed outside to a wooded area to release the mouse. Without much trouble, he was able to slip out of the coiled toy he was wrapped in.
Having just faced down a couple of cats, only to wind up within one of their toys, the mouse seemed stunned that everything worked out in his favor.
“The little guy slowly walked out of the terrarium as if in pure disbelief that he was able to regain his freedom,” Amandalyn said.