Mousing Around

This morning as I started work at 4 AM, I heard a metallic clatter from the kitchen. A mouse was caught in the "Tin Cat" humane mousetrap in the kitchen. I waited until after sunrise, then put on gloves and took the box with the mouse inside it across the street into the railroad yard in order to release it into the field.

( Good Luck and Don't Come Back )

I left the mouse to try its luck with the local predators like the small hawks I see in the area. If that mouse comes back and gets caught again, though, I'm going to take it down the street to the abandoned house that is home to a colony of feral cats and let it take its chances with them.