By Emer Scully For Mailonline
Published: 13:05 GMT, 18 March 2019 | Updated: 13:05 GMT, 18 March 2019
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Animals that clean are usually confined to films and fairy tales.
But a tiny mouse has been filmed tidying a pensioner's garden shed.
Stephen Mckears, 72, noticed things moving in his shed in Severn Beach, South Gloucester a month ago and could not believe it when he saw a mouse tidying.
The retired electrician saw plastic clips appear in an old ice cream tub filled with peanuts which he keeps to feed the birds.
Mr Mckears and his neighbour filmed the mouse tidying away the metal objects from around midnight to 2.30am - an activity it has been doing every night for around a month
The mouse tidies away large bolts from the counter. Every day Mr Mckears would return to his shed to find the metal pieces had been moved into the tub overnight
And each night more objects began to accumulate.
Questioning his sanity, Mr Mckears emptied the tub, scattering the nuts and bolts across his shed, only to discover the mess had been cleaned by the morning.
After weeks of finding large screws, plastic leads, nuts and bolts neatly filed away, he decided to set
