The Kitten was waiting at the back door this morning to be fed…waiting right next to where I'd left the (unset) trap. The folks who told me how to use it said to leave it outside so the animals can get used to its presence and I did that. The Kitten seems used to its presence, which is not to say she's prepared to walk into it under her own power. The trap is a long, metal cage with spring-release doors on either end. You can set both entrances or one. I set one. At the center of the cage, there's a little floor panel and when any weight at all is put on it, it releases the door(s). I took a small amount of cat food in a paper bowl and placed it so she'd have to get all the way into the trap and stand on the floor panel to eat it.
And that's the way it's supposed to work. It hasn't yet.
She's been sniffing the trap and walking all around it and looking at me with a "What the hell is this?" look. But she was looking about as eager to step inside as I'd be to attend a
Hold on. You'll have to make up your own punch line because I think I just heard the trap spring. Gotta go check.