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The moral dilemma of a $2 rat trap.
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“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”—Lily Tomlin I once lived in a house where the yard merged with a brushy woodland on the back side. Attached to the house was a two-car garage. I shared it with field mice. They used it as a Four Seasons-style spa.
It provided them a comfy place to sleep and all the spilt dog food they could eat. The marquee attraction was the peanut butter I used to bait a harmless Havahart cage trap. I caught four or five mice each week—all uninjured, all with peanut butter on their whiskers.
I carried each trapped mouse into the…
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