OMG A MOUSE NEST...psyche!

I was throwing something in the trash can a while ago, and saw that the trash can was full (as usual).  So I pulled the trash can out of the cabinet to empty it and saw this:

I fully expected the wad of fluff to be chock full of wriggly little pink babies with their beady-eyed mother, but THANK GOD it was a false alarm and turned out to only be the wad of crud that I had shaken out of the vacuum cleaner canister the other day that had fallen out of the trash can because it was overflowing.  WHEW!!!  What a relief!