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In the Hindu religion, rats represent foresight and prudence, and white ones are very lucky. Mooshika is the name of the steed that Ganesh - god of new beginnings and of fire, knowledge, wisdom, literature and worldly success - rides upon. The steed, of course, is the intelligent and gentle rat. “Mooshika” means “little hoarder.”
Dans la religion hindoue, les rats représentent la prévoyance et la prudence, les blancs étant considérés comme particulièrement chanceux. Mooshika est le nom du destrier de Ganesh – dieu des nouveaux départs, du feu, du savoir, de la sagesse, de la littérature et du succès matériel. Ce destrier, bien sûr, est un digne représentant de la race douce et intelligente des rats. Le nom ''Mooshika'' signifie petit amasseur.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
A nice mouse rescue story
He looked like a spiny mouse, and was moving not as fast as I expected a wild mouse to move. He had huge ears and huge eyes, a brown back and a white belly. Like this! So I wondered if he really was wild or a domestic mouse released at a bank. I put him in a cage covered with a towel in my apartment entryway, with water, food, a tube, bedding, and his bag, and left him there overnight.
In the morning a friend who has spiny mice came by, and she said he wasn't a spiny - so I for sure had to find a place to release him. He does not look like a city mouse, as I said, so where could he have come from? Then I thought: through a very complicated intersection just past the gas station, there's Atwater Market, where farmers come and sell their produce to booming business. He may have come in in a bushel of beans, and navigated his way to the bank lobby quite by luck.
This afternoon I took him for a drive down to Verdun, looking for a suitable park, and finally went to the extensive grounds of the Douglas Hospital - a huge area with scattered psych wards and living and working buildings. There was a squishy low-land pool of water that will likely dry up in the summer, with a few Canada geese and mallards whiling away the spring days (my dog Daisy wanted to live up to her nickname "Duck" and join them), and further on, a small woods and bare lot, and beyond that about 100-200 meters, the houses began again. I found a good place, lifted the towel off the cage, and the poor little guy was clinging to the bars looking out. I opened up the cage, and let him go. He ran off and quite quickly disappeared into the surroundings.
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