Rocky Raccoon, not Mr. Idea

Mr. Idea still hasn't come home, so we went to the SPCA and got a "humane trap" - a cage with a pressure-foot to close once a small animal enters. We bought some smelly sardines in oil, opened them, and put a trail of sardines outside the cage inside... and waited and hoped.

The trap tripped once but caught nothing...then this morning we reset it, and caught something - but not Mr. Idea. We caught a raccoon! We had to call Animal Care & Control to come open the cage; as the animal is of course wild and we didn't want to hurt it or ourselves in releasing it. Now we get to clean out the filthy cage - Rocky Raccoon made a real mess (I guess I would've too, if I were a scared wild animal in a small trap)


So, still no sign of Mr. Idea - I'm sad. I just hope that he, being the gregarious, talkative, sweet cat that he is - found a nice family to take him in. That thought makes me happy. Sigh.