Before you go to bed, you usually make sure that no food or scraps are left on the floor or table, otherwise it might invite some unwanted guests like mice.
For some people, the mere sight of a rat is disgusting.
New York, for example, has recently made new efforts to address the city's 'rat crisis', but such visitors are not universally despised.
In fact, in some places around the world, rats are considered a delicious and desirable food.
Every year on March 7, the Adi tribe in a remote village in the hills of Northeast India celebrates a festival called 'Yuning Aran'.
It is an unusual festival in which rats are included in their best food dishes. One of Adi's favorite dishes is a stew called bole block oing, which is made by boiling rat stomach, intestine, liver, testicles, tail and legs with salt, pepper and ginger.
All types of mice are welcome in this community, whether they are house mice seen around the house or their wild counterparts living in the wild.
Rat tails and feet are particularly prized in terms of flavor, says Viktor Bennomeyer Rocho of the University of Oulu in Finland.
He has spoken to many people of the Adi tribe during his recent research. Their research is based on the use of rats as a food source.
Rat meat is the best meat
In the course of research, he came across a different view of this pesky creature. Respondents stated that rat meat was 'the tastiest and best meat' they could imagine.
'I was told that 'if there are no rats, then there is no party', there is no joyous occasion, honoring an important guest, visitor or relative, any special occasion; It can only happen when rats are on the menu.'
They love rats so much that they give away rats, which are dead. And are part of their menu.
It is also an important item of dowry. When the bride's relatives happily send their daughter away from her old family with her husband, gifts include rats.
On the first morning of the Yuning Aran festival called Aman Ro, children are given two dead mice as gifts, just like the toys you got as a child on Christmas morning.
Little is known about when and how the aborigines became fascinated with rats, but Mayor Rocheau says it is a long-standing tradition that arose out of a lack of other sources of entertainment. Not a thing.
Many animals such as deer, goats and buffaloes still roam the forests around the village but the tribal people prefer only the taste of rat. They say that there is no competition for a mouse.
Even Mayor Rocheau, being a vegetarian, tasted the famous meat and found that it was similar to other meats except for the smell.
"It brings back memories of zoology students' first lab courses in which they dissect mice and study their anatomy," he says.
It is not limited to this small corner of India that rat is on the menu. British TV host Stephen Gates has traveled the world and met people who have very unusual sources of food.
Outside the city of Yaoundé in Cameroon, he found a small farm of rats, which he describes as 'little dogs, angry little devilish fellows'.
Gates says these mice are special because they are more expensive than chicken or vegetables.
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