There ya go! Checking every so often should fit right
into the busy schedule of a retired person.
Then take the trap w/ mouse to the nearest food-filled
dumpster and let it go.
Mouse gone.
Mouse lives and has food.
The trap can be used again.
Everybody's happy. ...or should be.
In NYC? The rats will probably eat him for lunch.
Of course, then the sewer dwellers can eat the rats.

