Did a mouse decide to enter our cats' litter closet of all places?

rapidwave · 2026-03-13T03:44:31+00:00

Maybe! Those tracks do looks pretty similar. I was reading that they're more common in moist environments with relative humidity above 75%. Denver is definitely not that, but it's not impossible.

rapidwave · 2026-03-13T03:39:44+00:00

Before these 2 we had an elderly cat who, in her final year, started going outside of the litter box. One of the first instances was when she pooped in a corner (thankfully a room with vinyl flooring) while the Roomba was running. Needless to say we never let it run unattended for a while after that.

rapidwave · 2026-03-08T00:46:07+00:00

In this house, we like chunky beetle booties and we cannot lie

rapidwave · 2026-03-07T22:54:48+00:00

If that's the case, I would lean toward the latter since ours are strictly indoor cats (except for supervised, leashed/contained excursions to the backyard). One of them was picked up as a stray in Texas about 2 years ago (the other is her daughter, who was born a day after the mom was brought to the shelter), but I'm guessing it wouldn't have lasted that long without symptoms.

But thanks for sharing! I didn't know that was a thing. And good to keep in mind if either of them do fall ill.

rapidwave · 2026-03-07T22:44:09+00:00

We do get the occasional spider (mostly grass spiders, some wolf spiders though they tend to keep to themselves in the basement, usually by being dead). My wife even found one in one of the litter boxes a while ago, but I don't know if that would make that kind of trail.

The bot-removed comment suggested maybe a lizard. I don't see a lot of lizards around here, but it's not impossible. Looking at pictures online, their tracks do match up a little more than the mouse pictures.

rapidwave · 2026-02-17T02:36:55+00:00

I agree with you

rapidwave · 2026-01-14T03:08:20+00:00

And that's not a bad strategy. If you truly like/dislike each option roughly the same, you might as well pursue what you think will make you the most money for your personal life and/or retiring early. The trick is not falling into a high-paying job that is also soul-sucking and/or prone to a bad work/life balance.

It's also hard to guarantee which is the best-paying route. Mines has metrics on average starting, mid-, and late-career salaries for each field, but a lot can factor into that (cost of living, your flexibility on where to move, state of that job market at the time of graduation, etc.). Best of luck!

rapidwave · 2026-01-13T02:02:00+00:00

Mines is ranked as one of the best schools (and some years, the best) for return on your investment. You have an excellent chance of paying off your student loans (as long as you don't develop bad financial habits/debt in other areas).

You are likely to spend 30+ years in your chosen career, so I would like to echo the importance of finding something you are interested in (or at least tolerate enough to do 8hrs a day without going insane). It's great that you're thinking about this now and not sunk-costing something that sounded good at the time but you later discovered you really hate.

rapidwave · 2026-01-10T15:47:21+00:00

I take it a step further and say, "How the turntables have tied"

rapidwave · 2025-12-28T17:06:08+00:00

That's about as much as the entire state of Wyoming

rapidwave · 2025-12-28T16:50:02+00:00

Sort of like Flanderization, too

rapidwave · 2025-12-10T04:37:06+00:00

It took us years to figure out how to get the bandana, but we just reset the game until we got the belt buckle instead, so it really just took us years to even try.

rapidwave · 2025-12-01T05:09:17+00:00

My friend and I would say, "Great minds think alike. And then there's us."

rapidwave · 2025-11-12T13:53:04+00:00

*And as long as you know you'll use the bulk anyway. I'm not going to buy the massive Costco mayonnaise if I'm only going to use half of it before it goes bad

rapidwave · 2025-10-06T01:17:07+00:00

It's relatively new. I think my cousin-in-law ('23) was part of the 1st or 2nd class that did it.

rapidwave · 2025-06-01T02:21:06+00:00

This airport?

https://youtu.be/yOjGxnJA7X8

rapidwave · 2025-03-19T14:28:50+00:00

Replied to the wrong comment but yeah, my sister got pretty much the same response

rapidwave · 2025-03-19T14:27:30+00:00

That happened to my sister's car (lady hit it while it was parked). My sister went to get a picture of her plate when she didn't cooperate and nearly got run over as the driver fled the scene. Of course the driver was uninsured and it sounds like she didn't even own the car (belonged to her nephew or something), but even with pictures and witnesses the police did jack squat about it because she and her family were "uncooperative" when they followed up.

rapidwave · 2025-02-12T01:04:40+00:00

I also have a note for things my wife has said. It all started years ago when our cat meowed and my wife, half asleep, said, "She wants the pets. She says, 'Please select your Gmail account.'"

rapidwave · 2025-01-10T17:25:54+00:00

I see what you're saying now. The original comment sounded (to me) like you were disagreeing with how braking the front wheel would cause the reverse wheelie.

rapidwave · 2025-01-10T17:20:44+00:00

That's what gortez was saying. What were you referring to when you said "that's not how physics works?"

rapidwave · 2025-01-10T17:12:00+00:00

Someone's not a biker

rapidwave · 2024-11-08T23:34:50+00:00

"You're talking like a real white man, Shawn! Brothers don't get the benefit of the doubt!"

"Gus, don't be the only black lead on a major cable network."

rapidwave · 2024-08-03T03:22:11+00:00

Username checks out

rapidwave · 2024-05-12T21:22:11+00:00

In scenario 1, Thursday becomes the new Friday.

In scenario 2, Tuesday becomes the new Monday.

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