.....an aside to Mbo's comment about cleaning out mice..meese..whatever...

I had an old, greasy mouse pad, so as to put off getting a new one, I put a folded, two-layer Bounty paper towel over it...and noticed I seemed to never have to clean out the mouse again!...yeah...you DO have to change the paper towel once a week or so, and it looks a little silly, but NO more scraping and digging in the mouse innards!

as the home appendectomy kit said.."suture self"...but it works!