Woman Delights Internet Making Lavish Cheese Board For Mouse Living in Wall

A woman's consideration for her tiny, hungry roommate has captured hearts online.

Bella, who posts on TikTok under the username @jorgeregula222, decided to start feeding the mouse living in her wall after it wouldn't leave her food alone. On August 27, she recorded her gourmet preparation and the rodent's highly pleased reaction. The footage has been viewed a staggering 18.6 million times.

"Making a tiny cheese board for the mouse that lives in our wall," Bella captioned the video, adding, "He kept eating our food so we decided to do him one better."

She started by lining a miniature plate with tiny cubes of Champagne BellaVitano cheese. Next came smoked Gouda, Provolone and Raspberry BellaVitano. Then she added broken up cracker squares, honey, pomegranate chocolate, walnuts and pear paste. She topped the dish off with raspberries and a bowl of water on the side.

Bella even went so far as to pluck a few flowers, leaving them in a miniature vase beside a tiny bottle of truffle oil for the mouse's enjoyment.

After she went to bed, her security camera captured the voracious mouse feasting on its meal. The little animal could hardly look more satisfied, devouring the cheese board from all sides and washing it all down with the serving of water.

The experiment went so well that Bella posted two follow-up videos. One showed her serving up a tiny peanut butter and jelly sandwich accompanied by pecans, a raspberry and oat milk. She even showed off a tiny house that she built for the mouse on August 30, adorned with decorative maps, furniture and a dinner of spaghetti with mashed tomato, crushed almond, dried flowers and berries atop a miniature tablecloth. The mouse appeared to enjoy every bit of it.

Newsweek reached out to Bella for comment.

Although the idea of a culinary rodent has charmed viewers before—think Pixar's 2007 film Ratatouille, about an inspired Parisian chef who also happens to be a rat—infestations of rats and mice around a home can spread many diseases to people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Illnesses including monkeypox, hantavirus, salmonellosis and leptospirosis can pass from rodents to people through direct contact, such as breathing contaminated air, touching contaminated objects or being bitten or scratched by the animal. Many other diseases can also spread through indirect contact when people are bitten by mosquitos, fleas, ticks and mites that have fed on infected rodents.

Nonetheless, TikTok viewers could not resist Bella's efforts to please her little furry friend.

"That was probably the best day of his little life," commented a user.

"That mouse is eating better than I am," said another.