Ruined Trap

 Tuesday, after taking Maybellene, now named Madeline, to Keitha's Kitties, along with the three boy kittens from the other Cascadia mom, I took the trap she'd been in out of the car.  

But I left it out, on the far side of the car.  I tried to tell myself to go get it later on, just before bed, or I'd forget it I knew, and probably hit it with my car.

I was tired.  That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I left it out there, far side of the car.

I went to go get groceries the next day.  I got in and turned the wheels so I could make the turn down the driveway to back out.  Crunch!

I quickly stopped and instantly remembered the trap I'd left on the other side of the car.  Too late.  I'd hit it with the turned right front tire.

Well, this is what it looked like.

That's the front top of the trap, crushed in and to the side.  Looks like a goner.  Annihilated!

However, I can't let things go that easy and I don't have that many traps anymore.  Some I've given away by now to others who needed traps to use.   So, I used some big fence staples to staple it to the work bench and then used wire cutters to remove the smushed door of the trap.  Its two pieces were pushed in and bent.

Now I'm slowly trying to straighten it using my car door jack.  I'll probably forget to put the door jack back in the car and end up in a jam that way, with a flat tire somewhere.  That's my luck.

I've got it partly unscrunched so far.  I suppose if I can get it mostly unscrunched I'll build an external form to fit tightly around it and pound it out from the inside.  I have minimal tools and skills but do the best I can to salvage what I can.  Traps are expensive.

If I get it functioning again, I'll take another photo.  

Meanwhile, its pouring outside.  The Waterloo lady said the park is flooding and the river below the park is up to back decks on houses near the river.