i think i have a mouse?

[melissajkxox]

So i live in a basement apartment and the people who live upstairs recently did over thier kitchen. Well, every once in a while i can hear something running in the ceiling. it's quite loud (but the ceiling tiles are thin) and it's most often from 7pm-sometime in the night, but occaisonly I hear it in the day ( from 1pm into the evening). I am assuming it's a mouse but the thing is, is that neither me and the people upstairs have EVER seen a mouse or seen droppings. Is it possible that the animal just comes to my house from shelter? I usually only hear it for a couple days at a time and then I won't hear it again for a week or two. Well the other day we had a light snow storm and I figured I'd go look for any tracks an animal may have left and I found some unusual ones. They looked like someone took two little pinky fingers and pushed them in the snow side by side ( : : : :) and the dots were not far spaced from each other. These tracks were coming from underneath the deck, which is against the foundation of the house, so I don't know how im going to be able to see any holes there. Well please let me know what you think I have.

[LoftyLottie]

Yes, mice and rats do come into houses for shelter, especially in this cold weather. I think it's very likely a wee mousey (or probably more)you have coming in and I wouldn't worry about it too much ithey are just in the space above the ceiling. Mice can get through the tiniest holes, that you probably will never see.