Our New Pet?

Many nights I will awake to the sound of little feet pitter-pattering thru the house. Well, the attic. The sounds of rodents. EEEWWWW! Actually I think it's squirrels because they tubble and run and yell at one another. It's a squirrel party in my attic. Joe keeps saying he will get rid of them but I've been hearing that for a year now. I don't want them dead I just don't want them in my house.

We have another furry addition to the rodent klan: a mouse. Well it may actually be a rat but a mouse sounds better so we will call it a mouse. Several months ago I wake up to Joey in the kitchen making too much noise for 2am. He was chasing a big, nasty, hairy rat. So he says. JayJay (the dog) has been trying to get it the past 2 months as well. He lives behind our cabinets so JayJay is trying to dig thru them but getting no where. Joe bought some stuff a few weeks ago to rid of the rodents. Guess where it is? It's still in the bag unopened in his pile of crap. So we remain to cohabit with these furry creatures.

Yesterday morning we had a run in with this mouse. I'm in the kitchen and happen to look up towards Joe in the office (which is the room next to the kitchen) and I see a small furry thing run under the desk. Joe comes to me and says "it's so cute. I found it all curled up in the towel in the media room." as he's also telling JayJay "get it boy! It's over here!" JayJay is going nuts. I'm staying as far away from the office as I can. A little while goes by, things are calmed down. I needed to make a copy. I go in the office. JayJay is still digging under the desk but his barks are gone. So I'm standing at our fax/scanner/copier waiting for my copy when the mouse runs out from underneath the stand (right at my feet!) runs thru the kitchen, jumps over Sara's feet (she is sitting on the kitchen floor playing with her phone). I scream, Sara screams. JayJay runs after the mouse as he flies behind the stove. I'm sure JayJay spent the entire day trying to get behind the stove. Shortly after that Sara and I left to start our day. What a way to get our morning going at 6:30am!