I have been dealing with a field mouse that found its way to my kitchen for several nights without success. Trying our best not to kill it and only trap and take it away is proving impossible. So far the mouse has prevailed and I start my mornings disappointed. But my recent troubles seemed like nothing when I heard this man's story about his fight to the finish with the bobbit worm. My mouse troubles will be over if I resort to harsher measures and there is some comfort knowing that. Such was not the case with this guy. Whatever the creature that needs to be overcome in such situation we apparently rely on the wisdom the "Art of War"
.. the famous military treatise written in 5th century B.C. by Sun Tzu, source of the famous quote, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” So, Arndt decided, he would start off by befriending the Bobbit worm.
“So I started feeding it, trying to feed it every night,” he said. “They’re nocturnal mostly, and I would stay up all night waiting for it to stick its little head out.”
The mouse in question first became interested in the moong beans I was sprouting in the kitchen and ate copious amounts of it every night that we missed catching it. Cheese was added next as lure into the trap that the mouse successfully dodged - again three nights in a row. So now moong beans and cheese were both gone but mouse was still at large. It makes you wonder if there is a larger purpose to this creature's life than being caught in a trap - most likely dying in the process if we are not around to take it out.
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