u/Tat25Guy

There are so many different cool and interesting animals and mythological creatures out there so why do I keep seeing the same dozen creatures. A giant enemy crab >>>> a phoenix (sorry Selkie)

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Found bro straight chillin on a pillar when I left work

I think it was an Eastern Harvest Mouse but I'd like to be certain. It had fairly large ears and eyes, a surprisingly short tail, and totaled about 4in in length. It's fur was grey with a darker stripe down the spine but I never got a good enough look at the underside.

It was in my apartment today but I was eventually able to catch it and release it. My roommate says it (or at least a mouse) was in her closet last night. My apartment complex has a nature trail with a large spring fed pond and wooded areas surrounding a creek. I will also add that it was storming last night and it's overcast and humid today. I released it in the wooded area on the far side of the pond.

My cat did manage to paw at it and pick it up in his mouth but I saw no signs of injury beyond exhaustion in the mouse and no signs of injury on my cat either.

I'm probably being paranoid but I'm washing any of my clothes it might've touched, getting rid of the cat toys it touched, and will schedule an appointment with the vet on Monday.

I initially posted this in the comments of the original post but I ended up hyper fixating on it and had to share as its own post lol. Feel free to take this post down if it edges too close to rules 5, 6, or 10.

I neither condone nor condemn Emanuele Caroni's artistic choices, I am simply sharing what facts I could find about the sculpture. Do with this information what you will.

I just did some research ([link](https://www.lelandlittle.com/items/414465/emanuele-caroni-italian-b-1826-i-the-telegram-of-love-i/) and [link](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/19th-and-20th-century-sculpture/leda-and-the-swan)) and Caroni's big thing was doing detailed texture work in sculptures. He made this not as an attempt to deptict the horrors of the Leda and the Swan myth, but as a way to contrast the human skin and the swan's feathers. It looks like he chose to depict Leda as a happy child because the innocence of both children and animals was a popular artistic trend at the time ([link](https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/sudley-house/exhibition/innocence-and-beauty-children-and-animals-art-1700-1900#section--the-exhibition)).

You'd probably have to ask someone into art history for a better explanation