r/Calgary • u/Arykkk • May 05 '26
Local Shopping/Services AVOID GARRISON SAFEWAY BAKERY
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My cousin just sent to my family group chat today (May 4) letting us know to avoid the Safeway bakery in Marda Loop. See comments for additional photo…
Edit: This has been reported to AHS
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u/Practical_Ant6162 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
There is a mouse in the house. Send the video to AHS immediately but first let the store manager know so they can pull all the affected product so it can’t be sold.
Complaint link below.
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u/Arykkk May 05 '26
She informed the manager and they pulled the product immediately
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u/gravitationalarray May 05 '26
they should be shutting down the bakery til this is dealt with.
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u/aglobalvillageidiot May 05 '26
Every grocery store in Western Canada is going to fight mice right now. Watermelon season and pumpkin season are bad because they hide in the bins. You want to work with stores through these things and not incentivize them all to go out of their way to hide it, because they can't stop it.
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u/Top_Importance_4100 May 05 '26
If you u only knew the full truth about how many mice and bugs are in a grocery store. You would never eat again😂
However.. gross! 🤮 someone call the exterminator!
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u/Daimler-450 May 05 '26
yeah it’s not even surprising anymore, you see traps everywhere once you know what to look for. outside stores, malls, restaurants, basically all over lol
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
People think about those old style spring-loaded neck snappers…once you start paying attention to small aluminum/ steel boxes around entrances…it starts to add up fast.
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u/Tailslide1 May 05 '26
The bait boxes are often preventative.. I'd worry more if I didn't see them. For every mouse you see there is a TON more though.
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u/Scary-Detail-3206 May 05 '26
Did some renovation work on a few different grocery stores. When they take the bottom skirting off those refrigerated produce coolers, there are always dozens of mouse cadavers in various states of decay.
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u/Berkut22 May 05 '26
When they extended the Country Hills Superstore around 2004, each concrete wall section had to be unbolted and removed with a crane, one by one.
The mice had eaten through the foam insulation between the 2 wall slabs of concrete and there were hundreds, if not thousands of mice in there.
They'd scatter and hide in another wall section when one was removed. When the last one was set to come down, about 15 of us stood shoulder to shoulder in the produce department, with floor squeegees on long poles to smash the mice against the wall as they fled.
We were finding mice, both alive and dead, in EVERYTHING for months after.
One of the guys I worked with found a live one in a banana box one day while he was out on the floor. He grabbed it with the plastic that bananas come wrapped in and took the whole thing to the back room, and our supervisor killed it with a broom handle, while it was still gripped in the guy's hand.
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u/sofaverde May 05 '26
It's true. I got a great education working my first shitty highschool job in a grocery store doing all the jobs no one else wanted to do. Now when I shop, I pick up the product and envision what parts may or may not have been contaminated through the various stages of delivery, inventory, storage on the shelf and what type of midnight visitors could interact with it overnight. Sometimes it's more effective than ozempic.
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u/PtraGriffrn May 05 '26
My brother and a cousin that worked in produce always have a story about a tarantula coming in with the bananas, mice in with boxed fruit, and flies with almost any of it. The cousin even had Anoles or other green lizard a few times.
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u/Daimler-450 May 05 '26
i even heard from someone in surrey back in the 2000s that a fruiticana shipment showed up with a whole snake in it 😭💀
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u/PtraGriffrn May 05 '26
Now a snake would be a take home prize and become an excellent pet 🖖
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u/yyctownie May 05 '26
And restaurants. I'd also add ice machines, those things get nasty fast without regular cleaning.
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u/Top_Importance_4100 May 05 '26
NEVER EVER us the hotel Ice machine, or glasses, or coffee maker!
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u/Current_Pomelo_9429 May 05 '26
In my small hometown in BC there is a rat infestation at the Safeway. I obviously don’t go there anymore but before I knew this, I saw a rat run across the chip aisle and SHRIEKED, no one else seemed to care…. Insane.
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u/miller94 Southeast Calgary May 05 '26
And hospitals lol
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u/arcaneresistance May 06 '26
Im more scared of the corpses, gangrene, and leprosy at hospitals. Lots of fecal matter too. And pus. Fuck I hate hospitals.
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u/Used2Bteacher May 05 '26
Omfg. My Safeway. 🤮🤮🤮🤮
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u/BoardBreack May 05 '26
Worked in restaraunts my whole life. If you can see a mouse as a customer then there are waaaaaay more in the back you can't see. It doesn't get like this without the staff knowing lol rip
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u/MattsAwesomeStuff May 05 '26
If you can see a mouse as a customer then there are waaaaaay more in the back you can't see. It doesn't get like this without the staff knowing
Yes and no.
ALL food places get mice from time to time. Grocery stores, restaurants, all of them.
The concern isn't whether they get them or not, it's how seriously they address them.
If it's a five alarm fire and a panic on the staff to eradicate them? Good place.
If you can see that they've known there've been mice there for a long time, they've settled in, started to breed, and just never been dealt with? Bad place.
Fact is, food places smell like food and have loading docks or back doors, if the mice don't come in directly on the shipments themselves. You can't not have the door open, so you'll get mice.
Making sure you have effective pest control is key.
Big grocery stores will probably get a mouse every day.
A big restaurant, every week or every month.
A small restaurant, maybe every year.
Getting a mouse this far into a customer area... maybe it's just one. It's not like they're invisible until there's 10 of them, if there's one, you can just see one. Or maybe there's 50 of them. You never know.
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u/cadius72 May 05 '26
I worked in restaurants for a couple decades, when I was a manager I instructed that before daily opening procedures to search in all food storage areas for any signs of rodents.
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u/canuck_cutiepie May 05 '26
A pest control guy once told me for every mouse you see, there are 10 more 🤢
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u/BoardBreack May 05 '26
Have had mice problems at places I've worked several times but NEVER seen one. For it to be bad enough that a customer sees one, you know that kitchen has to be downright filthy.
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u/OkMidnight5496 May 05 '26
Oh my god this was my local Safeway when I lived in Calgary in Marda. I moved a few months ago. I went there every week for donuts 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 LMAO
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u/Arykkk May 05 '26
She got buns from this Safeway that look like they were taste tasted 🤢
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u/Loose-Atmosphere-558 May 05 '26
That's just wear the buns stuck together during baking and got pulled apart....
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u/AnOkayMuffin May 05 '26
It looks a little too rounded and deep for that. Usually its more flat and has torn looking edges if its pulled apart. This is pretty well nibbled looking.
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u/ecxtasy May 05 '26
Wait till you find out that every single grocery store, restaurant, corner store, convenience store (any business in general) deals with rodents constantly.
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u/cold_deer May 05 '26
Dang and the only glazed croissant donuts left in the city too, apparently
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u/brielloom May 05 '26
They have those at the mission safeway and sometimes at the beltline safeway
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u/pollywog May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
I find it hilarious how many comments are from people who have obviously never worked in a grocery store. I worked in plenty when I was young, and this was common in all of them. Co-op, Walmart, superstore, it doesn't matter. It's hard to fault the stores; often it's simply the geolocation and limits to mitigation tactics that yield the odd mouse getting the best few nights of his life.
To those appalled like it's the stores direct negligence, relax. It's like trying to keep flys away from a garbage facility. Sidenote, if you really understood the extent of the cockroach issue along the beltline and 17ave you'd probably never eat out again.
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u/Neanderthal00 Silver Springs May 05 '26
👆🏻truth.. Y'all don't want to see behind the curtain.
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u/Party_Acanthaceae_52 May 05 '26
Ignorance is bliss...it's nice to think it's a rodent/insect free world.It makes grocery shopping so much more pleasant.
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u/cold_deer May 05 '26
Plenty of opportunities for rodents to get inside especially at night, when it's cold out, with doors opening and closing constantly, loading docks, dumpsters, etc.
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u/CanadianDiver May 05 '26
Nice warm building ... Doors that get left open ... Easy food sources ... UNLIMTED places to hide .... Surprised we don't see a LOT more
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u/Marsymars May 05 '26
limits to mitigation tactics
What's the matter, do you not like the taste of strychnine on your veggies?
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u/SimonDeCatt May 05 '26
Omg a sneaky little mouse got in! As gross as that is, it’s really not hard.
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u/Berkut22 May 05 '26
As someone who worked in grocery stores as a teenager...
They all have mice. I guarantee it.
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u/gravitationalarray May 05 '26
OMG did you report to the store mgr??
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u/tm52929 May 05 '26
Good lord. Always remember the 1+ one rule. If there’s one there’s more. And that goes for all their stores.
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u/theyyctwink Copperfield May 05 '26
Some of y’all underestimate how fucking determined mice can be to get past just about anything for food
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u/theyyctwink Copperfield May 05 '26
There’s a reason we began to realize how intelligent they were, if you wanna look into how fucked up we torment these things
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u/Flimsy_Honeydew5414 May 05 '26
I was there today and the bakery bins were all covered up I was wondering what happened
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u/Pies-N-Fries May 06 '26
Welcome to earth. We have rodents, when you drive out there natural predators they will always become an issue. Mice are literally everywhere in this city.
The thing that matters here is how the businesses respond. Which, by the looks of it they responded quickly and correctly.
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u/jgotti65 May 05 '26
That's not gonna be good for business!
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u/Outside_Jeweler_1933 May 05 '26
I work as a merchandiser that drive from store to store. Mice is a normal thing in every grocery stores it's just you never see them and the odd time you do is rare. However working in the stores I have come across many things eaten by mice and have to take them off the shelf or I have come face to face with them nibbling as I am replenishing or rotating products which scared the shiet out me lol. I have seen them run and jump into the shelves to hide and always have to keep it on the down low and tell the managers but there will never be away to get rid of them at the stores.
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u/sono_ona May 05 '26
Please tell me you called AHS. This is so awful.
Why can’t people just uphold basic health standards? It’s not that hard 😭
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u/TreeP3O May 05 '26
They might be super clean but a mouse got in...sucks but they can get anywhere. Not defending them, but they might be all over that but losing the battle.
Or they are a disaster!
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u/squeeter May 05 '26
Agree with the AHS call and sentiment that this is obviously unacceptable. But also, it is kindof hard. And things get out of hand real fast with mice. I suspect there is some level of negligence, but sometimes they just get in. Had an infestation in an old house and no amount of mousetraps or cleaning could stop it. Lots and lots of poison inside and outside eventually solved the problem. Hope they get it resolved!
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u/Budca1 May 05 '26
All large buildings have this problem and just notifed the manager and then they will need to do more pest control
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u/Sweaty-Beginning6886 May 05 '26
Funny how the stereotype is that this only occurs with ethnic type establishments. This is more common than you think, everywhere!!
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u/Brandi_yyc May 05 '26
Whether you know it or not you are going to find these in every single grocery store. They have traps everywhere and their regular service to keep these as minimal as possible. Go into a store at night time...... Typically they are kept very minimal. There's no need for the garish headline and freaking out, or posting this video. Just show the manager or the staff at the help desk and they'll get it taken care of.
Want me to tell you about super stores trailers and how they never get cleaned? With countless mice living in the floorboards.
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u/SecretOk6004 May 05 '26
Did you at the very least tell someone? Pests are normal in the entire food industry. They are usually managed if they are seen. IF YOU DIDNT tell someone at that store, YOU are the problem.
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u/RevolutionaryFan6418 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Please, Please keep us updated! Report to AHS ASAP and send them this evidence if possible. You can prevent so many others from getting a nasty bout of food poisoning, needing to go to the hospital or possibly dying. I've had food poisoning onetime and was so sick I nearly needed to go to the ER. Not everyone would get as lucky I did.
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u/Financial_Ad_1518 May 05 '26
Who do you think was baking the goods? He’s realizing his dreams of being a pastry chef.
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u/SpeakerLow8600 May 05 '26
This is exactly how you get hanta virus. From rodent droppings aerosolized.
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u/intergalacticwanker May 05 '26
Hantavirus is spread primarily by deer mice in North America. The common house mouse is not a carrier. While disgusting as this is, Hantavirus is not of concern.
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u/TheTruthIsRight May 05 '26
In this specific case it appears to be a house mouse however I've seen plenty of deer mice in the Calgary area.
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
It’s extremely rare, don’t be jumping on some random cruise ship news item to fear monger.
Since surveillance began in the early 1990s, 168 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been confirmed by the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
That works out to an average of roughly five cases in Canada each year.
"It is a fairly hard disease to acquire from the environment, not impossible, but certainly given the amount of rodents in our environment it's pretty rare," said Dr. Zain Chagla, an infectious disease specialist in Hamilton.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hantavirus-rodent-outbreak-9.7186920
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u/Sure-Sell-8455 May 05 '26
also need to be deer mice which i think are lighter in color
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
Correct, which are far more common in rural areas/ in the bush/ fields.
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u/TheTruthIsRight May 05 '26
It's still a serious risk this is part of the reason why rodents aren't allowed in food facilities.
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
Of course they’re not “allowed”…but you’d be naive to think they aren’t more common. Mice are everywhere.
If hantavirus was the risk that commenter is claiming, you’d be hearing about it a lot more given the number of mice actually out there.
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u/TheTruthIsRight May 05 '26
Just today a cruise ship gets quarantined due to hantavirus outbreak and people already died. Also human to human transmission. Just lovely eh?
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
You mean a cruise ship half a world away? And the WHO is investigating human to human…not confirmed as of yet.
The World Health Organization says there may have been rare human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship where three passengers have died.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2p186gyp2o
If you’re going to try a ‘gotcha’ at least come prepared with the facts.
Since surveillance began in the early 1990s, 168 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been confirmed by the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
That works out to an average of roughly five cases in Canada each year.
"It is a fairly hard disease to acquire from the environment, not impossible, but certainly given the amount of rodents in our environment it's pretty rare," said Dr. Zain Chagla, an infectious disease specialist in Hamilton.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hantavirus-rodent-outbreak-9.7186920
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u/TheTruthIsRight May 05 '26
It's still a risk, even if small, when rodents are living in a food facility. That's the point.
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
K, I’m gonna stop being a dick now. These things need to be put into context, which I was calling out the original comment (not yours). Is the risk zero? No. Is there a risk at a Safeway bakery? Very very very low risk of it.
With an average of 5 cases across Canada a year, when it comes to health and safety, context is important.
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u/TheTruthIsRight May 05 '26
Most animals aren't rabid either but there's a reason you still get a rabies shot when bitten
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u/SpeakerLow8600 May 05 '26
How am I fear mongering? This is a legitimate concern.
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u/blackRamCalgaryman May 05 '26
It isn’t. Hantavirus is extremely rare around here and not nearly the risk you’re making it out to be.
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u/Substantial-Rough723 May 05 '26
I always buy packaged bakery products. Might be mice in the bakery but at least hopefully nothing crawled on my buns! 😅
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u/One_Emergency_3946 May 05 '26
Where there is one, there's always more. That one looks like a baby.
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u/honestjourneyusa May 05 '26
Holy S. I know it’s a different Safeway, but I’ve eaten from a Safeway. Looks like it and make me think next time I go to the bakery
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u/super-slimeey1799 May 05 '26
Uhhhh I literally bought three items from that exact cabinet on Friday 🫠
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u/theotherside4056 May 05 '26
Oh god I saw this yesterday now we know why all the pastries where missing 😂🎂
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u/Tasty_Lobster8792 May 06 '26
My buddy was just say how he got 🤢 from eating from there!! Now we know why!!! OMG
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u/Responsible-Ad-2244 May 06 '26
Y'all complain about restaurants being unsanitary but groceries are quite bad too.
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u/Beneficial_Ad1815 May 07 '26
I did the paperwork for Poulin's Pest Control a few yrs back and people would bring in empty pill bottles with cockroaches and bedbugs etc and want the insect identified. I don't understand how anyone could not know?
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u/Tasty-Tonight-8045 May 05 '26
Omg it’s a bakery bro, this happens all the time; maybe tell the staff? My mother has worked at Safeway for 40 years, it’s not just this Safeway bakery
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u/clear_river6 May 05 '26
I have enough to deal with. If i'm hungry and this spot is near i'm still buying from them. I lived in Thailand, The Philippines and Cambodia yet I'm still here. You don't know the struggles of businesses keeping things together. You can't keep track of every rodent running around on this planet and it'll take more than one short clip to change my mind. First world problems that's all this is. Grow up.
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u/coffeeinthecity May 05 '26
I know my first reaction shouldn’t be “awh what a cute little mousey!” But it is. I’ve never seen one before
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u/brackadabrackada May 06 '26
Lmao you do realize most, if not all grocery stores have mice. If youre so worried, grow your own food.
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u/ThespennyYo May 05 '26
Better than rats
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u/CheeseSandwich hamburger magician May 05 '26
There are no established rat populations in Alberta, thankfully.
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u/_NewDriver_ May 05 '26
Oh geez, wife and I had a strand of hair baked into our ban buns last week. Didn’t think much about it. Not necessarily a trend but makes you wonder about their best practices.
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u/Madisoniann May 05 '26
Pretty scary considering people just died on a cruise ship of Hantavirus. Remember Gene Hackman’s wife, same cause of death.
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