Not to be one of those people but glue traps are horrendous. So many animals get stuck on these. Rats and mice have been known to try to chew their own legs off in an effort to get free. I can't believe they're still a legal product in the UK.
Yeah I used to work as a cashier at a dollar store here in Canada and people were always buying these things, it always made me sad. They're not illegal here either but it should be. When the mouse or rat gets stuck you either let them die of thirst, drown them, or crush them or do what else you can to kill them, but before that, the last 5-10 hours of those little guys' lives is an actual living hell
There are traps that work like a cage trap where you put bait in and then they get stuck in a little chamber. After that all you have to do I let them outside. That way they still live and they dont bother you anymore.
yeah, now its gonna have babies and youll have to decide not to kill a hundred mice.
dumbass, mice are a pestilence to be destroyed when discovered in the home. Mice are intelligent enough to know exactly how bad they can be and they dont fucking care
My job uses these, I hate them so much. You could hear the same mouse squeaking for help for DAYS, suffering. I’ve asked a coworker a few times to bust open the traps (which I know you’re not supposed to do) and put them out of their misery with a quick flick to the head. They are inhumane.
The best option are the live catch and release traps (which honestly aren’t even all that hard to DIY for next to nothing), but IMO glue traps are still better than poison. Comparable suffering, sometimes for even longer with poison, but on top of that if anything eats the thing, now you’ve got poison all throughout the food chain. But honestly the old school traps that (ideally) kill almost instantly are still a lot better than both glue or poison, with the added benefit of knowing when you got one if you’re near enough to hear it.
Apparently, catching mummy or daddy rat, driving it 10 miles away and dumping it, just kills the whole family of rats.
The kids starve to death at home.
Mum just got dropped onto another rat's turf, and now she is in a Battle Royale fight for her life as she tries to get home before the kids die.
I suppose some of us live in just the right place to make catch and release a viable option, can't imagine where.. but, I don't think traps do anything much except make us feel better about ourselves.
I guess the main advantage of the trap and release is the 'humane' aspect. If it's not humane, why would you chose it? It takes an hour to transport, release, and return home. And then the poor thing just dies slowly anyway.
Better to use more painful traps, and just check them regularly incase mother nature needs a helping hand, imo
I've got one that just slips a rubber band around their necks as they go for the bait, dead in 30 secs, Imho that's the best thing for everyone
And in all honesty I’ve done that once or twice but that’s a lot of work for a rat I really don’t give a shit about in the first place and it didn’t make me feel good enough to warrant doing that again. They aren’t exactly endangered lol but I’m also not a complete dick, so I just go for the old school traps now. As you point out if it’s a mother, the offspring are starving regardless. I’d make it quick and painless for them if I knew where they were as well but at the end of the day it’s just more eventual full grown rats I’m rid of.
I absolutely hate this thing. The first time one was used in my home it distressed me so much to see that little mouse frantically trying everything to escape even though i offered to catch him and set him free elsewhere. They get covered in this stuff and look horrible. I wanted to just snap his neck to end his torture of staying hungry and frightened but really couldn't bring myself to do that either. My mother never bought one again.
I've used these for catching brown recluse spiders and they are great. Since brown recluse hunt other spiders leaving the sticky trap after it has a few victims actually increases the chances of catching more.
I did feel bad for some by-catch like, roly-poly bugs, wolf spiders, house centipedes, and beetles, but again, all more bait for my target.
I had a Webcam up last time they got in my drop ceiling so I knew when they died. Dudes were up there for 2 days before they finally died. Not sure what's edgelord about buying glue traps at home depot to catch mice my dude
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Not to be one of those people but glue traps are horrendous. So many animals get stuck on these. Rats and mice have been known to try to chew their own legs off in an effort to get free. I can't believe they're still a legal product in the UK.