Dog Food Thief

Saw something out the corner of my eye 3 nights ago in the dark kitchen. We have our dogs food and water in there. So I settle in for some observation and sure as **** I see a mouse run across the floor from under the dishwasher to the stove area where the water dish is, about a 5 foot dash. I tell my son to get the camera and I get the pump BB gun. He sets the camera up on the table and starts recording and I get the rifle up on the chair pointing to the side where his hole is. 3:30 later the little bastard makes a 2 second dash for his hole but I got that **** covered and I take a single shot. Mind you that this is a fast mouse (or worse) and I'm 20 feet away and he's only got to cover 5 feet. I positioned the shot to ricochet into a white bag of recycle bottles. The guy makes it into his hole without missing a step and I was sure I missed but I knew it had to be close. Well....today I get a call and my wife sees a 'rat' in the front yard wiggling around in the grass, she notices the thing is wounded, says there is a hole in his rear leg muscle! Yeah buddie, I hit that thing 2 nights ago! So she tries to put a bucket on top of it so I can dispose of it when I get home but she cant because the thing can still jump 3 feet off the ground! I come home and find it in the neighbors yard...birds finished it off. Not my problem any longer.