Hope this does not blow my anonymity. Our old house with “balloon construction” hollow walls was a magnet location for mice. We became experts with sprig traps (conscientious objector to glue traps) and after a cycle of trapping we would have a period of peace. For our two youngest, we has an elderly Russian nanny. She had a rough life growing up and living in Stalingrad, and she was really solid and unflappable, One day I got a call from my wife to rush home, there was some issue. As I pulled up, my nanny ran out as a madwoman ranting in Russian with my two year old’s name peppered in here and there . He was sitting happily on the living room floor with tufts of mouse hair scattered all over. We never found the body, nor did we ever get a full story out of the distraught nanny.
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