Oh, I for some reason thought Emma was there, too. Gosh, if Boo Boo didn't seem troubled by the rodent, that's not a good sign. Yeah, I remembered Squiggles the raccoon was departed. That's why I was lobbying for another name for the mouse/rat, to honor Squiggles' memory.

The name Rizzo comes from the movie "Midnight Cowboy," which you've probably never seen. It won several Academy Awards in 1969. Dustin Hoffman played a pitiful little scraggly guy named Ratso Rizzo.

Does John live out in the forest or something? There's an awful lot of wildlife traipsing around there. I'm increasingly imagining a place a lot like where Hansel and Gretel lived.