Last night I had a long discussion with Burningbright and Daniel, our two tigers, who were watching the Sox game with us about their responsibility as cats. They claimed that it was Miss Griggles' (a more classic cat) responsibility but I explained that with her exalted status she was exempt and besides she was currently upstairs where there are no mice. They also protested that why were we picking on them when there were many other cats? I tried a bit of torture as a means to convince them otherwise but it had no impact whatsover. This morning Xerxes, one or our lions, said that Guinevere, our long deceased cat, had explained to them that mice were her territory and no-one was to interfere and this lesson had stuck.
So, I guess I'll have to buy some more traps today.
A Google search about traps revealed this clever trapless solution which is from our very own
If you catch and release into a residential area, all you have done is make it someone else's problem. Their disease carrying behavior remains. About the only good thing I see in this trap is it allows you the chance to kill them and dispose of them quickly rather than discover them a week later.
Traps of several kinds didn't work; poison did. There was some smell in the walls for several weeks - it wasn't too bad and it was in little used space.
Michael is still on the waiting list for skin grafts; he is still bandaged.