Squirrel #4 - FINALLY

This one was a real Houdini. We've been  trying to catch it for more than a week. The trap was sprung over and over, but no squirrel. Sometimes the bait was taken, sometimes it wasn't. On the occasions where the bread was eaten and all the peanut butter licked off the strike plate, I think the squirrel must have actually been muscling one of the doors open.

I switched to single-door mode, and wedged the unused door closed with a pencil. That door seemed a little looser than the other one, so I was hoping it was the escape hatch. Squirrel managed to get out of that configuration once too, this time eating half the bait (which bewilders me. Did it eat half the bait before the trap finally sprung, and then it zipped out before the door closed tight?)

Since there was still some bread in there I quickly reset the trap and left it for a day or two. Finally remembered to check the trap and lo! There was a squirrel inside! I hope it wasn't actually stuck in there for 2 days. Probably not, since it seemed plenty lively.

Houdini has been relocated and I'm setting it again. Does this ever end?