Last week we noticed some of the fruit on our kitchen counter had tiny little bite marks in it. After a bit of investigation we discovered mouse droppings behind certain appliances. Further detective work performed over the course of the week revealed the mouse was making his home in our small laundry room. He even had a little mouse hole behind our dryer. My solution was to run out and buy 12 mouse traps and place them in various places on the laundry room floor. Considering the tiny size of our laundry room this would pretty much guarantee a catch. I had originally wanted glue traps since they don't leave much room for error and I don't have much sympathy for rodents who nibble at our food and poop all over our floors. However, the drug store only had the traditional snapper traps. So on Saturday night I ended up placing 8 traps around the mouse hole. We played World of Warcraft late and went to bed around 1:30 AM. At approximately 2:00 AM we heard a snap from the laundry room. I went to investigate. The little creature wasn't caught in the trap but was clearly stunned just sitting in one place between our washer and dryer. It wasn't a small mouse either. It was a fairly sizable rat! To make a long story short, I ended up chasing the rat around the laundry room for a while until he took up residence beneath our hot water heater. We had quite a long standoff with me trying to flush him out into a bag by various means for almost an hour. Faced with defeat I went back to bed and vowed to get him in the morning. Morning comes and there's no sign of the rat. After a few days of observation we still notice no signs of the rat. Hopefully, our little show down scared him off for good.