Mouse-A-Day. Once in a while, Opie will sneak a critter into the house without being observed. But the critters usually raise a fuss at being kidnapped and thereby make their presence known. Mice are the exception. They immediately disappear from sight and are quiet as a ... well, you know. Apparently Opie succeeded in doing this twice, with rodentia of opposing gender who set up house and raised a family. One morning the Wife found mouse droppings under the stove burners. We put out a trap that night and had a mouse the next morning. That night the Wife found more droppings, and the Husband said they were just overlooked from yesterday. But setting another trap produced another mouse. "Leave the trap out," said the Wife. The end result was over one hundred mice in one hundred days. They were all fully grown, with small bodies and long tails. They were all released in the compost heap to carry on their family life there.