You’re a clean person.  You have a beautiful, immaculate home.  You always clean your kitchen floors and counter tops after dinner.  You never leave food open.  The dog food containers and garbage cans all have tight lids.  Then one night while going for a drink of water, you walk up on an intruder.  It scampers away in a flash and you are not even sure what you just saw.  Your thoughts are in denial, “Was it a rat?  It couldn’t be.  Not in my house.”  Well you shouldn’t be ashamed.  Rats and mice are everywhere.   They live in our trees, our yards, our sewers, and our homes.  We don’t realize they are there because they only come out at night.  While your cleanliness definitely helps keep them away, the litter bugs of our city who throw food trash on our streets keep these creatures well fed.  A mouse can have a litter of mice can be up to 14, and one female can have up to 10 litters a year.  Her babies have babies, and their babies have babies, and so on goes the exponential growth