PETA members, move along

We've tried spring traps, snap traps and sticky traps.

We've doled out globs of peanut butter, drops of chocolate and chuncks of spendy bleu cheese.

And still, the rodent eludes us! We've seen evidence of him in the kitchen, under the sofa, and in the mud room — inside the box of dog biscuits!

We have this tricky little set-up, where we've placed peanut butter inside an empty toilet paper tube which is set up at the edge of the counter. (Apparantly, the buggers like tunnels.) Anyway, if we can get it into the tube, gravity will take him off the edge of the counter right into a basket that it shouldn't be able to escape.

I kind of hope we catch it alive...because after the lengths we've had to go to catch it, I really want it to die a slow, painful death!