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Murders in the Rue Cuisine
Sep. 20th, 2020 07:49 amWe store our dog food in a barrel in the kitchen, lined with a trash bag. A week or two ago I found that part of the trash bag had been pulled out through a knothole near the bottom of the barrel, presumably by a mouse, so I set a couple of mousetraps, catching two (2) mice in the past week.
Last night I set a mousetrap under Moongrrl's food-and-water dishes in the kitchen, next to the food barrel, and re-baited another mousetrap in the quasi-triangular space between the circular barrel bottom, the wall, and the dish stand. This morning I went downstairs and found... ONE mousetrap, tripped and upside down, in the quasi-triangular space, and a mouse floating in Moongrrl's water dish. Cause of death was not obvious, and I didn't perform an autopsy -- might have been drowning, might have been a neck broken by a mousetrap, might have been a dog attack. Where did the other mousetrap go? If the mouse was caught in the mousetrap and subsequently moved into the water dish by a dog, how did a dog without opposable thumbs extract it intact from the mousetrap?
Last night I set a mousetrap under Moongrrl's food-and-water dishes in the kitchen, next to the food barrel, and re-baited another mousetrap in the quasi-triangular space between the circular barrel bottom, the wall, and the dish stand. This morning I went downstairs and found... ONE mousetrap, tripped and upside down, in the quasi-triangular space, and a mouse floating in Moongrrl's water dish. Cause of death was not obvious, and I didn't perform an autopsy -- might have been drowning, might have been a neck broken by a mousetrap, might have been a dog attack. Where did the other mousetrap go? If the mouse was caught in the mousetrap and subsequently moved into the water dish by a dog, how did a dog without opposable thumbs extract it intact from the mousetrap?
