jaqi
02-16-2004, 02:30 PM
Here's an odd thing that happened to Checkers...
We had a little problem with possoms this fall, involving several that had found their way into our basement ceiling. We solved the issue by blocking off their entrance to the house and setting up a couple of traps. (Some time before we also solved the problem of the cat getting in the ceiling via the windows--we have a tile ceiling and there was a space into it above the windows.) So having evicted the intruders, we left a trap up there in case there was anyone else and forgot about it.
Checkers has evidently found a new way up into the ceiling. We didn't know this until we heard his meows and realized we hadn't seen him for half the day. We found him packed in the box trap like a pickle, and the bait we had left (cat food, ironically) was polished off! Needless to say he was an angry kitty...
No serious harm done, except to his ego perhaps, but now I have to discover his new "entry point":(
We had a little problem with possoms this fall, involving several that had found their way into our basement ceiling. We solved the issue by blocking off their entrance to the house and setting up a couple of traps. (Some time before we also solved the problem of the cat getting in the ceiling via the windows--we have a tile ceiling and there was a space into it above the windows.) So having evicted the intruders, we left a trap up there in case there was anyone else and forgot about it.
Checkers has evidently found a new way up into the ceiling. We didn't know this until we heard his meows and realized we hadn't seen him for half the day. We found him packed in the box trap like a pickle, and the bait we had left (cat food, ironically) was polished off! Needless to say he was an angry kitty...
No serious harm done, except to his ego perhaps, but now I have to discover his new "entry point":(