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lid wrote:

| If I cannot monitor my traps in a timely manner, I don't trap.

With you all the way.

Having said "never", I realized that there was another proviso: never
out in the open.

I *have* left a trap set overnight, but only indoors - the basement of a
church. I also covered the trap to make a "tunnel" - the cat is more
likely to go in if it can see through to the other side, and at least it
isn't completely exposed.

I caught both my foster kitten Katrina and her cousin Jezebel that way.
Katrina, not three months old, held out for five days without food. Her
aunt (1.5 years old at that point) did even better: she held out for an
incredible seven days - while pregnant (with 5), to boot. The stamina
seems to run in the family.