Today, during the volunteer cleaning shift at the shelter, a volunteer came up to me with this toy. It had gone through the washing machine and would not stop chirping. Originally, she was going to throw in the dumpster outside but I just knew if someone heard that little chirp echoing in the dumpster then they might feel the need to save the “animal” that was stuck in there and crying for help.
So I grabbed a pair of scissors and made my incision. The chirping got louder as I got closer to the battery. Finally when I got the battery out of the poor unstuffed mouse, I found there wasn’t an easy off button. My coworker (work wife) and I had to take a butter knife and pull the top off it which revealed a metal plate with a wire hooked on a battery. I felt like I was detonating a damn bomb. I cut the wire. Mouse was pronounced dead sometime before 11am this morning.
Whoever put this mouse in the laundry, screw you. 😂
