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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jackie French

Pest control: a trap for beginners

Bryan's homemade trap has caught many feral cats. Picture Shutterstock

I have just been tromping around in the ankle-high wet grass that for a short time after mowing we refer to as "lawn", rebaiting our household's traps. We have accumulated traps for quite a number of species.

The first was the fox trap that Bryan made out of a donated (legally) old supermarket trolley. It's caught many foxes, as well as feral cats. How do we know the cat are feral? Feral moggies are trying to bite their way through the steel and our jugulars. A domesticated cat sits there neatly, extremely annoyed, waiting to be fed, and then rehomed.

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