Someone has been cleaning my shed every night — it’s a tidy mouse

Did someone call a mousekeeper?

Every night, a mouse emerges inside a man’s shed in Powys, Wales, to — wait for it — tidy the place up, as seen in a bizarre video blowing up online.

“It happens every night without fail,” 75-year-old Rodney Holbrook told the Washington Post this week of his fun-sized janitor, which he has dubbed “Welsh Tidy Mouse.”

The retired postman said the fairy tail began in October when he noticed items were out of place in his shed.

“At first I noticed that some food that I was putting out for the birds was ending up in some old shoes I was storing in the shed,” Holbrook, who set up a nocturnal camera to try and find the culprit, told CNN.

What he saw on camera flabbergasted him. The black-and-white footage revealed a tiny mouse picking up objects from nails to cable ties and even screwdrivers with its tiny mouth and placing them in a tray, like something from a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon.

Or perhaps the janitorial version of the culinarily-inclined rodent in the Pixar classic “Ratatouille.”

“I couldn’t believe it when I saw that the mouse was tidying up,” Holbrook said. “I don’t bother to tidy up now, as I know he will see to it.”

He found the pest-cum-helper’s cleanup routine especially impressive in that the mouse follows it every night without fail.

Similar to a beaver building a dam sans wood, the tidy mouse has also taken on some unorthodox objects. Most notable among the items was a long cable, which the neat freak struggled to fit inside the box.

“I think he would tidy my wife away if I left her in there!” exclaimed Holbrook, who said that on some occasions, he’s observed other mice on cleanup duty as well.

And this is not the first time the Brit has observed an organizationally-obsessed cheesethief.

In 2019, the septuagenarian was tasked with helping a friend set up a night camera, which revealed a mouse was keeping his shed in England squeaky clean.

“That one video went viral and reached people around the world,” Holbrook said. “So I can’t believe here in Builth Wells we have had the same thing happen years later.”

Contrary to what “Cinderella” and other Disney films might have one believe, the rodent isn’t tidying up to be helpful (or because it thought mouse-querading as a maid would save him from the trap).

Mice simply like to stockpile things by nature.

“They are very funny creatures if I’m honest,” Gareth Davies, founder of Wales-based Pest and Property Solutions, told the Washington Post. “Mice are very inquisitive creatures, and they are hoarders. They love hoarding food and everything else.”