A rat-shaped bun… or a bun-shaped rat?

BJ’s wholesalers has pulled all products from a bakery after a local man in North Carolina discovered a form that looks like a mouse attached to a hotdog bun.

Arnold’s Bread Bakery claims it is hardened dough or “pan accumulation”.

The supposed accumulated dough took, “the eyes and the ears and the feet curled up underneath him and the tail,” said Bruce Van Dyne describing what he had found.

North Carolina’s Department of Agriculture began investigations and asked Florida to inspect the factory where the buns were baked.

The chief health inspector in Florida told NewsChannel 36 that businesses rarely fail inspections, but Arnold’s Bakery failed twice — in April and on their re-inspection in May.

Some of the violations: One report shows there was evidence of the presence of insects or rodents, there were bugs in a mixer, and the conveyor built where the dough is baked was held together with duct tape.

The bread company has sent the bun to be tested, expecting results next week.

According to the CDC website, rats and mice can spread over 35 diseases.

Rodent-borne diseases are spread directly to humans through bite wounds, consuming food or

Diseases from rodents are also spread indirectly to humans by way of ticks, mites, and fleas that transmit the infection to humans after feeding on infected rodents. In some cases, the rodents are the reservoirs (carriers) of the diseases, while in other cases the ticks, mites, or fleas act as the disease reservoirs.

The list of diseases transmitted directly by rodents to humans include: Hantavirus, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, rat-bite fever, salmonellosis, among others.