Chris' Catch......the Verminator!

This story is a few weeks old, but I have been wanting to post it for awhile. After weeks of Maddy and I being tormented by a "creature" living in the attic my dear husband finally caught it! We had been hearing a large animal moving about in the attic right before Maddy was born. We called some pest people and they wanted to charge an arm and a leg to catch this thing. They wanted to set hundreds of various traps in the attic for hundreds of dollars. We decided that we would try and give it a go ourselves. Chris tried several rat traps which did not work. We finally decided this thing was bigger than a rat when it would slide down the walls and make loud noises. Our poor cats were going crazy chasing this noise around....determined to catch it. Since I was home more often with Madelyn, I would hear the animal all day. It started to chew on things and that is when Chris got serious.
We invested in a high pitch noise maker and a humane animal trap. Chris found a pathway through our fence that the animal must be coming in and out of and decided to place the trap there.

One week later, I was feeding Madelyn early in the morning and he came out of the bedroom with the biggest smile on his face. You would have thought it was Christmas morning! He quickly ran to the backyard with his eyes lit up to see his trap had worked. I could not help but be so proud, and then.... I asked him "now what are you going to do with it?" He replied he did not know and had to leave for work soon. I told him not to leave it here, try releasing it in the woods at the back of the neighborhood. He drove back there only to find that it was next to a bus stop full of kids. Not wanting to make a news headline "Children attacked by angry opossum," police still searching for the man who dumped the animal, Chris drove on to a quite area and opened the trap. All in all, Chris is so tickled at his catch and so am I. Now the house is peaceful again.