Got the second one!

Having discovered there was a second weasel, when the trap was sprung but no weasel in it, we kept it out.  The next day we caught the weasel, I called Joyce, looked down at the weasel and said, “You can’t get out.”  I swear she looked up at me and said, “Oh, yeah, watch this!” and went straight to a place we hadn’t seen where one of the wires was bent back so there was a 1 x 2 space instead of a 1 x 1, turned her head sideways and slid right through it and away, while I watched dumbfounded.  John fixed the trap with some coat hanger wire, and we put the trap out again.  It took two days and new bait (a nice two days rotted chicken head and some chopped beef) before we got her.  This one had a long black tail…so I think they weren’t Least Weasels at all, but plain ol’ weasels, and he was just not mature enough to have his black tail yet or just changed from white and hadn’t gotten it yet? No idea, but she had a long black tail, and was a little larger.  Joyce shot her, took both pelts, has them salted now.  Waste not, want not.  Mittens?  Ermine collar for her barn coat?  No idea: but the weasels will be honored by the use of their pelts.  Now, I hope it was a breeding pair (tis the season, I’m told) and not a family reunion, and we’re finished with weasels for the season.  I am eager to get my chickens home from Julie’s, but will wait a couple of days just to make sure…

Now, I see that wordpress has changed their format and I have to figure out how to add photos…why do they do this.  It’s like the supermarket, who, every time you figure out where the Wheat Chex are, they change their location, or the bra companies, who, every time you find one that fits right and is comfortable, they discontinue it.  GRRR!!! Why fix it if it ain’t broke?