Animals Among Us I

If you look up animal control outfits, all sorts of cute names will be found. However, the experience of fauna residing in one's home is, for the most part, not cute. Due to the sheer number and magnitude of tales in this category, I'll use multiple posts with bite-size entries. I will also begin with a relatively benign example to "break in" the reader prior to the more harrowing tales.
While installing a new roof on our first home, I noticed an animal-made opening between the original roof line and the '70's era dormer addition. My assisting friend and I came to the consensus that it was a raccoon or skunk sized entrance. He had a friend with a Havahart trap and I had a can of sardines. So I carefully placed the trap and open can of sardines on the roof near the opening at dusk.  After a critical misstep and another sardine purchase, I did  eventually catch a huge raccoon. However, on the first night I naively left the ladder  leaning on the back of the house. Due to this, in the morning I discovered I had captured the neighbor's cat!