So, my Wonder Woman’s cat, who is a completely lifelong inside cat, got out a week and a half ago, and we’ve not actually seen hide nor hair of her since, except for the game cam Son&Heir installed under the deck where I have been leaving food and water since the second day. The photos show her in seemingly good health, so that’s good, but syncing up her schedule and ours has not happened. Yet.
So, bought a live trap. It just came, and I assembled and tested it, then put it, unarmed under the deck with her food just inside the trap, to accustom her to it. I’ll move the food and water further back over the next few days (with the trigger set, but the trap disabled by tie-downs) until we have evidence (disappeared food AND photos of her inside the trap) she will take the food past the trigger. Hopefully, this will work.
One hitch: yesterday AM, about 0100 hrs, an opossum showed up on the pics, nosing around the empty food bowls (Catrina–my Wonder Woman’s cat–had emptied the food about an hour earlier). That could pose a problem. Battery was low on the camera, so nothing was caught last night, though the food bowl was cleaned, as always.
Hopefully, the opossum hasn’t run her off.
Game cam shows she’s still around. She’s had a couple of days to get used to the trigger falling w/o the trap closing, with her food positioned at the end of the trap, beyond the trigger, so. . . set the trap this morning, but it’s been raining all day, and she’s not shown up. . . yet.
*sigh* Trap sprung but no critter. Reset and then tied the trap to disable it again, just hoping she’d come back and feed.
Fed. Game cam out, so reset that, and now trap baited and enabled. We’ll see. Getting colder, and expecting freezing temps this weekend, so I’d really like to have this settled before then.