I got the rat trap picture by searching Images in Google. It came from this blog.
You may find it amusing. The blog, that is, not necessarily the picture.

The entertainment centre picture shows my TV showing an ad with a spelling mistake. I took the picture to capture that spelling. You can see some pictures of Christy. The sharp and informed eye may also see a picture of my bro Onesmus, Apondi and myself. below that is my DVD player that keeps me awake till even 3 a.m. though nowadays I don't do that often.

Below that is my LG HiFi. Nowadays it functions more as a radio and an amplifier for my TV and DVD. tapes don't seem to play and CD's stopped playing on it long ago. It's maybe 8 years old. I bought the speakers separately last year or thereabouts. One of the speakers has holes at the front, into which I have occasionally seen a mouse run.

Wikipedia says: "Nevertheless, due to its remarkable adaptability to almost any environment, and its ability to live commensally with humans, the mouse is regarded to be the third most successful mammalian species living on Earth today, after humans and the rat."
So I guess a mouse is not the same as a rat.

Now I have to check what 'commensally' means.

Wikipedia also says: "Rats are distinguished from mice by their size; rats generally have bodies longer than 12 cm (5 in)."
So I guess I have been having mice not rats.

Dictionary.com defines commensal as follows:
–adjective
1. eating together at the same table.
2. (of an animal, plant, fungus, etc.) living with, on, or in another, without injury to either.
3. Sociology. (of a person or group) not competing while residing in or occupying the same area as another individual or group having independent or different values or customs.
–noun
4. a companion at table.
5. a commensal organism.
So now I'm supposed to eat with the mouse at the same table?? I think I've fed it enough. Besides one of the mice took and tore my socks, tore my bedsheets, old newspapers. So there has been injury on my part.
This. Is. War!