a mouse in the house... or more than one...

thanks to kate's post about a mouse burning down a house or not i decided to tell ya'll about my mouse woes.

Every once in a while i find "the evidence" a mouse has been in/around my kitchen. So for over a year now i have just been leaving mouse traps in the various likely spots, just in case a mouse or mice decide to visit. I haven't really kept a running otal of how many i have caught/kilt, but i'd say it's at least a dozen. I have no clue how they are getting into the house. The previous owners had that foam insulation stuff put around all the external walls and i thnk around all the pipes as well. about the only place they didnt was the pipes under the kitchen sink... but if they get in that way how the hell do they get out of the cabinet under the sink? mostly i find "the evdence" on top of the kitchen counter near the microwave, which happens to be near the wall that is built against the neighbors house. (townhouse/rowhouse whatever you want to call it, thats what i own)

ok so some of you are saying im heartless and cold for killing all these mice, but i dont know what kind of diseases they are carrying around, and i don't want them in my food/dinner.

it has got so bad i am seriously considering getting a cat so i dont have to keep buying traps. but then i think single guy living alone with a cat... how gay is that?

oh what horrible dilemmas i face... lol