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Please help me with my fear

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cherrycola66 · 06/06/2025 22:44

I know it’s silly. My biggest fear is rats and mice. Ever since I was 14 I’ve been terrified of them and I don’t know why. My garden backs onto a kind of forest so I know they’re around, thankfully haven’t seen one here yet, however my partner annoyingly told me in the outside shed there was droppings. I see them whilst out walking through parks and I literally run in the opposite direction, please please help me calm my mind, I always think about what if I saw one in my garden, I couldn’t go out there again, or even worse the house, I honestly would move out. Please give me some words of advice that they aren’t that bad

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InWithPeaceOutWithStress · 06/06/2025 22:48

Get a cat, they will scare mice away.

Garibald · 06/06/2025 22:47

Also an ex boyfriend of mine had pet rats and I loved them. They were really clever, he had trained them to do tricks and they used to eat these chocolate drop treats by holding them in their paws like cookies. They were very affectionate and trainable pets. One used to sleep in the hood of his hoodie all curled up like a cat.

Garibald · 06/06/2025 22:45

They really aren't. We have horses and chickens which means we sometimes get mice in and around the feed store. The mice are actually terribly sweet - so unbelievably tiny and shy. The rats are bigger but even they scarper at the sight of you. They stay alive by running away from things bigger than them!

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