Oh, for those who haven't heard it already, my self-cleaning oven story: When I moved into this house the first thing I did was take a little money put by for updating the house and bought the aforementioned glass-topped stove (the previous stove was avocado green and a real eye-sore). the first time I ran it, it smoked and smelled to high heaven. I called Sears and they tried to convince me I didn't know what the normal smell is of a self-cleaning stove. Duh, I'm not 19, this is easily my 4th, and none smelled like this. The thing is, it only smelled bad after the first 45 minutes or so. They sent a guy who could find nothing. So .... told him he'd have to wait the 45+ minutes. Didn't matter to him, "I'm paid by the hour." But then I saw a lightbulb go off. He got out all the tools he needed and pried up the glass stove top. Sitting there was about a cup of dry dog food kibble. Burned, of course. Mice had been storing it there for a rainy day. We all got a good laugh. At the time I had cardboard under-bed storage boxes. And yes, there, nestled in all my off-season clothes, were little pockets of dog food. I thought my dogs were eating a lot, but it was their first "real" winter (one had been born in Hawaii, the other in Florida) and I just assumed they were trying to put on fat. Instead they were feeding families of mice (I finally took some advice, and my current doggie eats when I put food down or it goes away, and not with the help of mice).