A trap is set...and an unexpected visitor.

So...on Monday I went in search of a fox trap and I think I got the only one left in town. In the past we have borrowed someone else's and have never successfully caught a fox in one. We did catch a fox years ago mid attack, cornering it in the pen and then putting it into the borrowed trap to relocate but despite putting traps out a few times have never successfully tempted anything in, except, on one occasion, a dozy possum.This fox is very wily so I have tried to mask my human scent by rubbing the trap all over with a pork steak. (Bear Grylls can ask for my advice whenever he wants.) For the past two nights I have been leaving cheese out and it has been disappearing but that might have been bush rats or possums...but I do think it could be our greedy fox.The trap has been set for two nights now and baited with cheese. I have put it up by Fort Yudhisthira as, no doubt, this fox will be back to try his luck with the only 'chooks' left alive on Thorndale Ridge. I put some cheese in the trap and some outside around it. The cheese around it disappeared the first night so I did not replace it and the only bait left is now in the trap. There is one piece that can be reached without setting the trap off and one piece further in that will hopefully trigger the trap to close when 'the beast' tries to get it. (Slowly, slowly catchy beastie!).Last night I put out an infrared wildlife camera I got a few years ago to try and capture this nocturnal cheese thief and this morning, at dawn, it recorded this...[wpvideo Pb8FMBvw][wpvideo 0nT3Vkab]A feral cat!Sadly this has to go too...when we catch it. It’s estimated that feral cats kill 75 million native animals every night across Australia, including birds, frogs, small mammals, and reptiles. It was definitely a fox that killed the hens but this is another unwanted predator on our hillside.It ate most of the cheese just inside the trap so Perhaps will be back tonight for the rest.