Um, I'm just curious--how could your place be a rodent paradise?

Anyway, I'm glad you keep yours indoors. Mine used to be
indoor/outdoor but when I bought my first house, it was a corner lot
on a very busy boulevard, and I knew right away they were going to
become indoor only. If I had to go scrape one off the pavement with a
shovel, I would never be able to forgive myself.

They really don't seem to mind. Even though we've moved again (this
time to a quiet street), I think it's better they stay inside. No slit
ears, cat fights, dogs chasing them, etc. They seem perfectly happy
just to go out on the screen porches and observe. And every couple of
weeks, I go by the herb place and get them a catnip plant to decimate.
So it works for us.