I’m sure mouse-death is inevitable in some scenarios, but hopefully this shows that you can try to be humane first – 20 mins and shed mousey was in there.
In other news – I should say that praying pic wasn’t an opportune photo. It had been in there for about ten minutes when I noticed a cat right over it, trying to get in to the mousey-goodness.
I got rid of kitty and I am not a religious person at all, but it stayed completely locked in that fear-like state, with it’s paws together in a prayer fashion – pretty weird!
Anyhow, it’s happily in the shed gorging on peanut butter now, whilst I try to entice out any family so they can be re-homed together.
Still, that locked ‘prayer pose’ was a really odd thing to witness!