Trapped

While the rat problem has abated some (in that they are no longer eating the eggs or tearing up the insulation in the chicken coop), Art still sees one around from time to time. We've kept the bait box loaded but have forgone the glue traps because they kept disappearing. I don't know where they went or if there was something attached to it, but they're gone. Apparently there was one behind a large piece of something-or-other that Art moved. Did he pick up the glue trap so that the curious yet dumb chickens didn't get caught? Nope. Art told me he had meant to do it, but then got side-tracked- which is pretty much the story of his life.

I tried to help the rooster out, but he kept running away from me. Part of the trap broke off so there was only a square that was firmly attached to his foot. He ran into the barn and it sounded like he was wearing flip flops when he walked on the cement.