House for sale

Tonight I smelled something dead, I don't know how I missed it earlier, perhaps the humidity of the day made the smell worse.  When I pulled back my dishwasher I screamed and shuddered, there was a dead rat behind it.  It was so big I thought it was a squirrel, except for the foot long horrible tail.  I made Bob get rid of it, btw he screamed when he saw it too.  He got a shovel and removed it and I cleaned up the mess, but I couldn't get rid of the smell, when I pushed the dishwasher back in place I felt my foot brush something and when I looked down there was a dead mouse!   AAAHHH!!  I screamed again, bob said "another rat"  I said no just a mouse this time, he said "good, I can't handle another one of those big ones tonight".  He got the shovel and scooped that one up too....That is so gross, I would say we need a cat, but I am so allergic to them it's not an option.  Now I keep feeling things touching my legs and my feet and I keep jumping thinking there is another mouse....there's not, but my mind is playing games.  I am sure tonight will be a night terror night, where I wake up screaming, wake myself up, realize what I am doing and go back to sleep.  It doesn't bother me much, but it tends to be a little unsettling to those that hear me screaming in fear at the top of my lungs.  I appreciate that we have a home, with a roof over our head to protect us from the elements and lots and lots of space, but it is falling apart, and it has mice, rats and big spiders so I would sell it in a heartbeat, just not to a friend, because I know what a lemon it is.  Thinking of this experience in a positive way....I am really thankful they were dead when we found them and that they were not in my bedroom, and they hadn't climbed up in to the back of the refrigerator to die like the last one, and my husband was here to get rid of them for me.  There are blessings in everything if you look at it from the right perspective.