Attack of the rat dog

My experience with rats in New York hasn’t been too bad. I haven’t seen any besides in the train station which makes perfect sense. That is perfectly fine with me. I was lying in bed the other night and I kept hearing something run back and forth in the apartment upstairs. I’m getting irritated because it’s two in the morning and their dog should not be running around like that so late. Now it takes a lot for me to complain about a neighbor but I was fed up. It seems like this dog gets active whenever I am ready to go to bed. I got out of bed, told Jaime I would be back and went upstairs. I knocked on the door and kindly asked them if they could keep the noise down. She apologized and said that they had a mouse they were trying to catch. I walked away a little disturbed. Disturbed because all this time I thought they had a dog and that was a mouse I was hearing and for me to mistake it for a much larger animal means it had to be large. Please catch that thing and don’t let it come anywhere near our apartment.