So That's Where my Hazelnuts Went!

fertguy,

You and your cat are lucky they didn't encounter this rat:

https://nypost.com/video/rat-shows-cat-whos-boss/

You guys are hilarious, keep them coming...
LIVE trap BTW, I have fields all around my house. The coyote's will have a 'field' day next spring. So far I've caught/leased 117 mice. Just walked 1/2 mile in 30 degrees at 5AM to let some go. Dedication. Trying to pay off some karma for hunting rabbits as a kid.

@oldhyvmec, state of Louisiana actually did try to market nutria rat as a consumable meat but it didn't get anywhere, truth be known though, if you have dined in some questionable food establishments in South Louisiana you probably had some. As a side note, I use to trap nutria rats for there hides every morning before school and remember vividly getting a live angry one in my pirogue with me, I got out swam to shore and retrieved my boat that afternoon.    I was 19 and living on the West bank in New Orleons, every night I would smoke a joint and leave the roach in an ashtray next to my real to real and it would disappear by the time I would go to retrieve it, had to move the R2R one day and found a pile of paper where the rat was dragging the joint and eating the good part, baited a rat trap with a fresh joint and got that bugga that night. Enjoy the music

larry, you got that right!

One night my Labrador retriever and I opened the door to the second story deck to have a smoke.  Actually I was going to smoke Susie-Q the lab was going to bop down to the yard and engage in canine activities.  The instant the door was opened Susie-Q burst out in pursuit of an O'possum which had come onto the deck to steal dog food.  The frightened possum ran through the still open door and into the den where the stereo is located.  The possum was acting very strangely.  When I rapped it on the head with a yard stick it behaved very like an insane possum by hisssing and snapping at the yard stick.  Long story short Mr. possum ended up hiding in the bass horn of a Klipschorn.  I tried playing the conclusion of Saint-Saen's organ symphony very loudly.  No luck.  After trying several different bass heavy selections at outrageous volumes what finally did the trick was Herbie Hancock's Future Shock played at ear bleeding volume.  Once the possum emerged I used a leaf rake my wife had brought to me to sweep the possum out the door and onto the deck where he promptly jumped off the deck onto concrete twelve below. 
If you are ever selecting music to entertain O'possums it would probably be best to avoid Herbie Hancock.