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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained within a 20-kilometer radius of land within the Mojave Desert, centered at latitude 34.78845 longitude -114.232022. The area within the perimeter is to be kept under constant surveillance by satellite and by airborne drone for any unusual activity. Military personnel are to maintain watch over the zone 24/7. Camouflaged artillery units are to encircle the zone entirely, spaced no further than two kilometers apart from one another. Sniper personnel are to be similarly spaced around the perimeter, with any uncamouflaged units operating in facilities disguised as border patrol stations. All units stationed to this SCP may order a Priority 1 bombardment from Area-14, which has a payload allocated specifically for the zone containing SCP-XXXX sufficient to expunge the entire containment zone to a depth of 40 meters at the center. No special effort is to be made to prevent civilians from entering the containment zone.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus), approximately 5 centimeters in body length and 10 centimeters in total length with dark gray fur and white ventral coloring. Its only distinguishing visual characteristic from most other cactus mice in the zone is a small notch cut through its left ear.

SCP-XXXX's anomalous properties become apparent through any attempt to capture or harm it. Any such attempt inevitably leads to failure, seemingly by pure happenstance. However, the happenstances for failure to capture or harm SCP-XXXX have been determined by Foundation researchers to be statistically astronomical in unlikelihood. That, as well as the entity having far greater intelligence than a normal cactus mouse, have lead to the SCP classification of the entity.

The mouse came to the Foundation's attention after a wildlife biologist was rushed to a hospital in Kingman Arizona, suffering from two crushed vertebrae, deep dermal lacerations covering his body, and a fractured tibia. His only explanation for these injuries was that he was "just trying to catch that damned rat", and in his official statement confirmed that the injuries he sustained were caused by the rodent. Investigators contacted the biologist in the hospital ER for specific details about the entity, and upon debrief, task forces were deployed to the vicinity the man had been airlifted from for medical treatment.

Below is documentation logging the attempts to secure containment of SCP-XXXX

Researcher's Note: I've received a lot of correspondence expressing confusion about the drastic measures taken for the containment of what for all intents and purposes is an ordinary mouse in the middle of nowhere that is a danger to no one except those that try to interfere with it. Rather than respond to you all individually, I will make this note here. For the time being, while further efforts of containment and study are devised, SCP-XXXX does not require any special containment apart from occasional drone reconnaissance. The zone surrounding SCP-XXXX's domain and the enormous amount of firepower pointed at it is not for our protection from it, or for its protection from humanity. The reason we are prepared to rain destruction onto a big chunk of the Mojave desert is to protect humanity from whatever the hell managed to injure its ear.