And the trap worked to perfection! It caught a feral cat!
Unfortunately, it caught the wrong feral cat…another neighborhood stray who apparently isn't as smart as the one I'm trying to snare. The Kitten, the one I want to take in for repairs, inspected the trap for half an hour before wandering off, untrapped. This cat, the one I just let out, got herself penned in just a few minutes. (I'd consider taking this cat in to be spayed too, but I see it already has been. They mark one ear with a little notch when they do it.)
Okay, so wrong cat released, trap rebaited. I'm hoping The Kitten didn't observe any of this and learn just how the trap works.
In the meantime, I sit here…appropriately working on a script for the new Garfield cartoon series. Maybe I should have baited the trap with lasagna.