{"id":231,"date":"2007-02-08T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T00:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-04-08T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:11:57","slug":"its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/its-alive","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tina and the boys heard the &#8220;snap&#8221; again while they were eating breakfast this morning. They thought it was by the cat food again, but I didn&#8217;t think they could hear a trap in the garage from the dining room. I was right &#8211; it was under the stove where I had set two traps over the weekend. Not only was this one alive but it was squeaking up a storm!<\/p>\n<p>I pulled out trap\/mouse and put them in the middle of the kitchen floor. Eventually, both cats became interested enough to check it out. I cruelly shot some video with my digital camera while Ming had a look. I should warn you that these videos will be upsetting if you don&#8217;t like seeing mice in traps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KHIVYqXJrwI\" target=\"youtube\">he doesn&#8217;t realize what I have,<\/a> even though it&#8217;s squeaking.<\/li>\n<li>Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TzIzlTM4yz0\" target=\"youtube\">he sniffs it like he might another cat.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Realizing it&#8217;s a mouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5bqGY1BoViQ\" target=\"youtube\">he has a few pokes at it.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bYLek1WH5g\" target=\"youtube\">he ignores it before poking it again.<\/a> Notice the mouse biting back a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I only let this go on for a couple of minutes before I dropped him in a salsa jar with baking soda and vinegar. It was all over in about 15 seconds. (Thanks for the great advice, Thane!)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a few more from YouTube:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oK5MMN4bVmA\" target=\"youtube\">The grisly truth about mouse traps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?search=&amp;mode=related&amp;v=FYbxofLOG80\" target=\"youtube\">Almost got away with it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OY4PgQazJa4&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\" target=\"youtube\">Humane catch and release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina and the boys heard the &#8220;snap&#8221; again while they were eating breakfast this morning. They thought it was by the cat food again, but I didn&#8217;t think they could hear a trap in the garage from the dining room. I was right &#8211; it was under the stove where I had set two traps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/its-alive\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s alive!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,968,967,245],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mice","tag-ming","tag-mouse-traps","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-3J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}