The "Tail" of the Black Box

This afternoon at work I was summoned into the owner's office. He was slowly taking the lid off of a black box and I was to look inside at the contents.

My initial thought was, "This is some sort of trick," so I proceeded with caution.

Here is what I saw:

The owner's wife had trapped this little guy inside of their house. They didn't want to put him out into the cold, so the owner brought him to the office — which is what everyone does after they find live rodents in their homes.

When I first met this little mouse, his fate was yet to be decided. By the end of the day, he was granted a temporary home at our workplace. He will be the mascot in one of our medical classrooms.

The plan is to release him into the wild this Spring if he lives that long... and if we don't get too attached to him.

Lenny, the Lab Mouse.