If she will eat some dry food, put some of the tuna juice on the dry food. Should still be plateable for her and have the odor she likes maybe??
She is a dry food cat almost 100%. She never gets canned food, just some occasional tuna.
No cat last night so with the weather going downhill I rebuilt the trap to look more inviting to a cold critter.
I cut the rings and rolled the wire back to straighten and lubricate linkage. It was kind of stiff. For some reason the cat had taken a liking to an old laptop bag. looks like it will fit without causing problems to the door mechanism.
Decided to try a new scent to attract her plus it doubled as the lubricant for the stiff linkage---good old bacon grease! That's in the jar in the first pic.
Wrapped it with a small HF moving blanket, using Gorilla tape. Hope fully the tape holds. Seems like real good stuff.
took it outside and used the BBQ grill as a windbreak. Put the food puzzle toy on the trip panel carefully! The bacon grease has this thing sliding easily now!
Can see from inside the house if it has tripped.
Now what kind of a dumb cat wouldn't want to crawl into this luxury? Ours probably---LOL!
I do think that it's just a waiting game. If she survives she will come back when she's hungry and tired. My sister and daughter want the neighborhood searched like a forensic team would do! I think we have done what we can do without wasting too much time. Our son also came over today and did "rounds" on the property every hour or two and helped with the trap. His day off work. The cat seemed to like him when he lived here for awhile.
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