A woman has shared footage of the moment she began to suspect an unwelcome rodent was starting to think of himself as one of their pets.

Morgan, a stay-at-home-mom posted a video to her TikTok, @lifewithmorgs3, showing the extraordinary moment she caught the mouse drinking from the water bowl she had set up for her dog.

According to the onscreen caption accompanying the video, Morgan had spent the previous three weeks trying to catch the rogue rodent. Now, she said, it appeared as if the mouse “thinks he’s one of the pets” and has free reign to roam the house without fear of being caught. “He honestly owes us rent at this point,” Morgan wrote alongside the video.

The clip, which can be watched here, has already been viewed 2.7 million times on TikTok since being shared last month, garnering nearly 3,000 comments in the process.

Many seemed in favor of Morgan and her family keeping their new mouse friend as a pet. “This is actually so cute. You have to keep him now,” one wrote. “God forbid a mouse wants to be a roomie,” another said with a third adding: “Congratulations you have a pet mouse now.” A fourth, meanwhile, commented: “He’s soft launching his adoption.”

Elsewhere, in an unexpected development the official PETA TikTok account stepped in to advocate for the mouse “This little mouse really made himself at home,” they wrote in response to the video. “Mice are incredibly intelligent—they can even learn their names! If you’re not ready for a full-time roommate, use humane live traps only in mild weather and check them hourly.”

Morgan responded to PETA’s comment to confirm that, despite the many pleas for them to adopt the mouse, the issue had been dealt with. “We finally were able to grab him and let him go outside ,” she said.

That decision may ultimately be for the best. As the company American Pest Control Inc. warns, while the presence of a single mouse can mean just that, it can sometimes be representative of a much larger rodent presence. If that’s the case, it can lead to major problems.

“Even if you only have a few mice in your home, it only takes them 5 to 8 weeks to reach reproduction maturity. Once that happens, they will start reproducing at larger numbers and adding to your mouse problem,” they said. “With an average litter of 6 to 8 little mice pups, and the possibility of 5 to 10 litters per year per female mouse, one mouse in the house is enough to raise an alarm and see how big the problem is.”

Thankfully in the case of Morgan and her family, there appear to have been no more mouse sightings.

Newsweek reached out to lifewithmorgs3 for comment.