How Do You Catch a Mouse?

I discovered last week that I have not been practicing law alone in my office when I found a mouse rummaging through the file boxes in my office. While its always nice to have company that doesn't talk my billable hours away, this new unexpected office-sharing arrangement has not been very fruitful. Rather, I have spent my time setting traps and giving the little client a feast each night. Maybe I could bill my client for "researched through files."

You see, the mouse really likes peanut butter, even the little dabs of it carefully placed on the Victor traps bait hooks. Maybe after a couple more weeks of feeding him peanut butter he will be heavy enough to trigger the traps. Or maybe it would be easier to just haul the file box away to the shredders while he's still in it. After all, I, as a lawyer, have been trained to catch people in their words. Why not catch a mouse in the written words? Anyway, I'm just glad that my law office isn't located in India, where mice and rats are deemed holy: "O ye wicked and perverse generation, ye lawyers . . . , for ye are laying the foundations of the devil; for ye are laying traps and snares to catch the holy ones of God." Alma 10:17.