The mouse that exploded!

So...for the last few days our neighbours have been away visiting family and as well as keeping an eye on their 'chooks' they asked me if I would check a mouse trap that they had set in their office. it seems that a mouse had moved in and was making a nest in a small hole in the wall under a desk. They had left the house unlocked, as most people around here seem to do when they go away, so I was able to get in but it felt very strange wandering into their house every morning.The trap they had set was a humane one but for two days it had been sprung and yet it was empty. I kept receiving texts asking about the mouse catching progress but could only reply with bad news. Last night I decided to set a lethal trap as well as we have been having success with them recently here at Frogknot, but this morning, the last before they returned, I found both traps empty again.I brought the lethal trap home and set it with the others here and before lunchtime had caught three mice!Our neighbours returned home this evening and I messaged them to tell them about the lethal trap I had set but had had no luck with it except in catching three mice in our house today. I wished them luck with 'Supermouse.'A little later the neighbours rang. They had returned home to find the freezer not working and couldn't understand why until they discovered it was not the freezer but the socket it was plugged into. Dave suddenly suspected rodent intervention and sure enough, on squeezing his phone into the hole in the wall to take pictures, discovered the mouse had chewed through the electric cables and in shorting the circuit the mouse had exploded in the wall cavity and there was evidence of a small fire.To think that their house could have been set alight by a mouse this time does not bear thinking about. I told him I hadn't smelt anything like a burnt, exploded mouse on my visits but he said he thought it had not long happened. He couldn't get his hand in the hole but he got his son Jarrah to get his hand in (obviously with the power off) and scrape what was left of the mouse out and he said, and I quote, 'the guts were pretty fresh.'"We got the mouse in the end!"...but what an end to the tale it was.I will leave, you after that unpleasantness, with some pictures I took this morning of the view from our neighbours house. This is the view we would have if we didn't like trees as much as we do...