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Any particular reason a mouse would mindlessly run in circles?

How do I get to the cheese?
Turn left.

Well if there are no further directions or update then the mouse is going to keep turning left until it gets to the cheese. It would be stupid for it to stop turning just before it reaches the cheese. So it keeps going, which is actually pretty smart.
 
When my daughter was a kid in the fall when mice started invading the house, we'd stay up late and shoot them with .177 pellet guns :)
 
Elagabalus said:
Perhaps the mouse has developed a hearing problem from an unsafe vaccine while doing full immersion VR on a flat earth on board a plane you've never heard of.
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You left out that the mouse was told, by the gods, that a giant lightning bolt was about to strike, creating a new Grand Canyon or a new giant comet. Poor mouse was so terrified that it ran in circles ... not realizing that this was the exact signal the gods were looking out for ... it told them they had the wrong planet! Evidence? Well, there’s no new Grand Canyon, or giant comet, is there? ;)
 
hahaha ok guys and gals very funny, but I think the question wasn't answered seriously well enough yet.

The mouse has become unbalanced and dizzy due to a problem with its inner ear. Could be infection or parasite, physical damage, or pressure from a tumor, but in any case the mouse is dizzy and its equilibrium is unbalanced. It would be much like a human who drank so much the night before that in the morning the bed was spinning. (been there, done that, never again) or like the bat spin race.....
 
Red Baron Farms said:
hahaha ok guys and gals very funny, but I think the question wasn't answered seriously well enough yet.

The mouse has become unbalanced and dizzy due to a problem with its inner ear. Could be infection or parasite, physical damage, or pressure from a tumor, but in any case the mouse is dizzy and its equilibrium is unbalanced. It would be much like a human who drank so much the night before that in the morning the bed was spinning. (been there, done that, never again) or like the bat spin race.....
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Seen this even in larger mammals such as dogs, one of my Afghans got a serious ear infection in just the one side and he walked like he was drunk always veering to one side no matter how much he tried to walk straight. It was funny and as the infection cleared up slowly stopped.
 
Darat said:
If one of my cats brought in a still living mouse they usually just dropped it, watches it run off and then look at me "hey I brought it in, your responsibility now".
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I don't think ours ever actually released a mouse in the house. They did bring in live birds and release them once or twice.
 
Darat said:
Seen this even in larger mammals such as dogs, one of my Afghans got a serious ear infection in just the one side and he walked like he was drunk always veering to one side no matter how much he tried to walk straight. It was funny and as the infection cleared up slowly stopped.
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YouTube documents other rodents and rabbits/hares behaving this way as well. Very interesting if a little disturbing.

Glad we have antibiotics.
 
Darat said:
Seen this even in larger mammals such as dogs, one of my Afghans got a serious ear infection in just the one side and he walked like he was drunk always veering to one side no matter how much he tried to walk straight. It was funny and as the infection cleared up slowly stopped.
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Maybe it's a marker for self awareness?

Make animals dizzy, the ones that realize something is wrong and try to correct for it, pass.
Little mousey here, doesn't.

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EDIT: swapped consciousness for self awareness as it was the wrong word.
 
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