Paul Downes
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We have been getting visits from a barn cat and her troop of kittens. They have been raiding our cat food which is in the barn. I got to thinking (first mistake) that a few more mousers/raters might come in handy so we decided to catch a couple and tame them down. Well, I trapped some of them in the barn and got the welding gloves on. We finally caught 1 and it proceeded to try to chew the welding gloves off my hands (thank God I decided to wear them) I finally got that one calmed down enough to put her in a trash can with a lid.actually my one yr. old had her fingers on the rim of the metal trash can and I put the lid on quick -lots of crying but no real damage.....and went after the other one. After chaseing it all over the barn, into the attic space through the loft (piled with stacks of lumber) it launched itself off the 8' loft and landed in a pail of kerosene. I was about to shoot the %@^% thing but thought that the audiance of my young kids would not go for the idea........about an hour later I final caught the little rascal. I stuck it in a fish net and folded it over so it couldn't escape and got out the dish soap. It looked rather sad after repeated hosing. I am glad some animal rights wacko didn't drive by when we were attempting to de-grease the bugger. It looked like cat tortureing. After drying it with a heat gun and towels I then had to repair the rabbit cage and make a new door so we could keep them captive. And I was planning on casting some resin and turning a few pens........I should just buy a trap or 2 for the darn mice and rats.