That is funny!
Cats do get in to a lot of trouble.
I had a non-mousing Siamese once and live caught a mouse and put it in the bathtub with the cat. The cat just groomed himself.
It was a totally decorative animal.
Hahaha...a “decorative cat”!
Talking about mouse traps...
I am reminded of Admiral Willis Augustus “Ching” Lee Jr. who is largely credited with being the first naval officer in the world to grasp the potential of radar for the direction of naval gunfire, and to put it into use. (He was a distant relative of Gen. Robert E. Lee...he was called “Ching” Lee due to his fondness for the Asiatic fleet and his time in China.
He understood radar from the ground up, including all of the specific electronics involved and knew how to fix it.
A brilliant guy, who also won 7 medals (5 gold, 1 silver, and one bronze), all in shooting events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. (These were team shooting events)
When the US Navy sent him to Guadalcanal in late summer 1942, he drilled his ship in radar guided gunnery which would later be credited with damaging the battleship IJN Kirishima (a beloved warship in the Japanese navy) which had to be scuttled shortly thereafter due to the damage.
His men loved him, and to pass the time in the wardroom, Admiral Lee himself built from scratch a device with a meat cleaver and an electronically activated solenoid that they placed in the overhead of the wardroom along a route frequently travelled by the bold rats.
It was a contest to see who in the wardroom had the best eye-hand coordination to press the button, activate the solenoid, and bring the cleaver down to chop the rat in two just as it passed over the device!
Now THERE’S a mousetrap!