Despite this, one of our immediate neighbors has a cat. It isn’t noisy or bothersome, so we see no reason to snitch on them. The concern is that recently we have had a mice problem in our unit.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...