Eek

So. About a week ago, I got up, and there was no cat on the end of the bed, and no cat in her spot (towel on the dresser). Instead, they were both in the kitchen, staring at the stove. Ooooookay.

Gee, I thought, I hope it's not a mouse or something. But nothing had been nibbled, and we'd heard no scurrying, and the cats left the stove alone.

Yesterday, I opened the dishwasher, and a mouse streaked across the inside of the door. After slamming the door shut, leaving a message for our landlord (they're in Mexico for a week, lucky them), and calling my mom (my brother: Why don't you just kill it? Turn on the dishwasher!) Barb armed herself with mittens, opened it up and... no mouse.

We then added soap and rewashed everything.

Since then, Minnow has been staring at the dishwasher. She was also staring at the stove again, so I took out all the pots and pans and pulled out the drawer so she could get underneath. At which point, she became far more interested in jumping in and out of the empty drawer.

Have run dishwasher twice since then, vacuumed all crumbs, put dry foods, etc in plastic containers instead of bags. I've heard "shuffle-shuffle-shuffle-STOMP-shuffle" a couple times from our upstairs neighbours, so I think the mouse is visiting them, too.

Gyah. So didn't need this.