Angel of Death pass by

[pegkerr]

This was a red letter day: I heard something scrabbling around inside the live mouse trap this morning, so I borrowed kiramartin's cat Greta this afternoon so that she could dispatch it. When I opened up the live trap, to my surprise there were three mice inside. One was dead, but two were alive and left in a hurry. Greta, Mighty Huntress, got one, but the other one escaped. Edited to add: Delia just came in to report that kiramartin's other cat, Bianca, managed to land Mouse # 2. On the other hand, Greta took Mouse # 1 into kiramartin's house, where, although it is almost half-dead, it managed to escape into the heating vents. Kira, forgive me. I hope you're right, and Greta will find it again or at least it expires soon. Next time, I will take the live trap further down the alley before opening it.

And I found another dead one in the snap trap. Altogether that makes four mice that I got out of our house in one day.

Comments

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

I'm honestly just curious--why do you live-trap things and then set a predator on them? Wouldn't it be kinder, from their perspective, just to kill them outright with the trap?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We have all sorts of traps: live traps, sticky traps, and snap traps. We've tried sonic deterence, too. At this point, we're trying a multi-approach, because we're desperate: we'll catch them any way we can to get rid of them. They have been winning, and they've multiplied. They're all over the house now. Anyway I can catch them, I'll do it.