rebeccmeister | In other news, What passes for excitement around here. [status, cats]

1. I want to acknowledge that there is a lot of outrage on social media and in the news right now, for justifiable reasons. I hope the outrage can continue to be converted into pressure for change, in all the ways it needs to be converted into that pressure. That is a very hard thing to do and it is going to take a ton more work.

2. But tonight I am at home with the cats. I thought I had been hearing some strange noises in the house today, and about 30 minutes ago I was finally able to identify why. We have at least one new guest, a mouse, that showed its face in the back bedroom while I was sitting on the bed in the room.

It seems that the cats might be on the project now, finally. I have more confidence in Martha than George. But I did also pull out another live trap, and put fresh bait in it and the live trap that has been sitting in the kitchen for a long time. (from what I know from S, mice will avoid traps if they smell at all like they've been handled recently, so I gloved up to add the fresh peanut bait)

If I do succeed in actually live trapping the mouse, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it in the face of the oncoming snow.