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So I went to the hardware store to look for a trap that could capture possums that roam around my neighborhood. Apparently this was the only thing available. Pretty expensive, $50 I believe. An antique contraption that Abraham Lincoln probably used as I would later find out.
I get to setting it up and the instructions are terrible, I couldn't get the door to open fully, I went to youtube to see what the fuck I was doing wrong. I read the comments and everyone reflects the same thing. The physical paper instructions are unhelpful. Even the video sucks.
Finally I set it up properly inside my home. There are a couple rats squeaking about in my home so I try it out on them first. I put the bait inside the cage and it's awkward, there's no door behind the mechanism so I have to lean the entire thing upwards so I can throw a slice of bread inside to fall pass behind the mechanism.
I do catch a rat the next day and I'm like wow this is was worth the money. I pick it up by the handle and walk towards my front door so I can drop him off down the road. I kid you not the fucker pops out the bottom of the trap and runs off in the living room. I flip the trap upside down to examine how he escaped, I see the holes on the bottom of the trap are much larger. Mind you he was roaming inside the cage for at least 6 hours as it laid on the ground.
I figure I have to alter this trap somehow to capture critters in my own home. I consider going back to the hardware store to purchase a thin plank of wood I can glue to the bottom so it doesn't happen again, although I fathom up a faster method of placing a flat trash bag beneath the cage so I can bag up the trap and take it outside to the street instead...
