Current Events > PSA: Glue traps are the cruelest way to catch mice.

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Came into work today and someone laid glue traps around the place. Sure enough it got a little field mouse. Gonna try vegetable oil to free it. Don't use glue traps!

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I've caught mice in the snap traps that survived

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I caught two in a glue trap before and they tried to eat each other.

Mother nature be scurry

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Here goes nothing


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Yeah it is super fucked up. Work had the same shit. I tried to help the little guy but he pretty much tore him self apart trying to get out. I was fuckin pissed for weeks.

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What if I'm an angry sociopath that wants all the little home invaders to die a horrible death?

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They work like a treat though.

And if you want to feel merciful, check the traps often and as soon as you catch a mouse, stomp it for a less painful death.

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So did you free it?

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NeonOctopus posted...

So did you free it?

Yup, put it in a box to keep it warm. Went to check on it and it was gone.

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shit's brutal but effective

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Dang, he looks dead in that last picture D:

Good job setting him free instead of leaving him to a slow, cruel death though :D

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My grandmother used to have traps that doesn't kill the mouse so she can release it into the woods (rural town), one day a rat got in and chewed trough the metal wires.

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Sometimes they even try to eat their own hand to free themselves

yeah, its cruel - caught one at my fathers place who still uses glue traps and I put it in a box, some oil to free him (yeah I know oil is bad, but its better to be free than to get crushed and die there), and left the box outside

Apparently they're more effective than the traps I'm using, I guess I need to switch. Thanks for the heads up.

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The alternative is the use of rodenticides which make them die over the course of a few days while their blood thins out, and runs the risk of secondary poisoning to birds of prey/cats/etc that eat them.

Snap traps are the most humane but also least effective unfortunately.
(Well, besides hunting dog/mink teams but those only work in rural environments)

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Learned this the hard way. Caught it then felt guilty. Never using them again.

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Fuck em. Theyre disease carrying pests.

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Why would you try and free it? Fuck those little fuckers, kill them every chance you get!

Nothing worse than hearing the helpless squeaks of a poor mouse waiting to die while you are trying to sleep.

Snap traps with peanut butter have worked well enough for me in the past. The poison traps had me finding dead bloated mice all around the house.

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So many sides ITT

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Also FTR to everyone saying "Poor mice :(", mice are actually really shitty animals lol. They pee and shit as they walk, and are really violent to one another. Like, to the point that one male will kill other mice that don't fall in line in their nest. They kill their babies pretty frequently too.

Not saying glue traps aren't cruel, they absolutely are. Just saying that mice aren't the cute cuddly innocent little animals they seem like lol.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Nothing worse than hearing the helpless squeaks of a poor mouse waiting to die while you are trying to sleep.

Serious question: when you know one is kaught, do you just leave it until it dies, or free/finish it?


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LostForest posted...

Also FTR to everyone saying "Poor mice :(", mice are actually really shitty animals lol. They pee and shit as they walk, and are really violent to one another. Like, to the point that one male will kill other mice that don't fall in line in their nest. They kill their babies pretty frequently too.

Not saying glue traps aren't cruel, they absolutely are. Just saying that mice aren't the cute cuddly innocent little animals they seem like lol.

Humans are the worst kind of animal for that very reason tho lol

Are you insane? Fuck them mice

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my wife get pissed that I only use non lethal traps. we get them every now and then and it just takes a bit more time with the traps I have...

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FrankJaegr posted...

Humans are the worst kind of animal for that very reason tho lol

You're wrong. Humans stop to piss/shit.

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Has anyone tried the trap where they walk a board up to a bucket, and fall in and drown? Any success there?

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FrankJaegr posted...

Humans are the worst kind of animal for that very reason tho lol

This has to be dumbest take I've seen here today.

The_Korey posted...

You're wrong. Humans stop to piss/shit.

Someone isn't trying hard enough.

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Honestly the sticky traps are highly effective that I caught the mouse in just a week. I tried the bucket plank that took up so much room and it caught nothing after months.

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They're vermin. Exterminating them isn't a crime.

Good topic for ratting out CE's resident psychopaths.

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The_Korey posted...

Serious question: when you know one is kaught, do you just leave it until it dies, or free/finish it?

That's a personal choice. I would prefer not to free it because it'll likely end up back in the house. I don't really have the stomach to finish it off. Maybe if it were suffering I'd mercy kill it.

Good old-fashion snap traps can crush a mouse's skull or break it's spine killing it instantly. That's how I'd like to go if I were a mouse.

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The_Korey posted...

Serious question: when you know one is kaught, do you just leave it until it dies, or free/finish it?

If I find one in the glue traps we use at work, I just throw the trap into the dumpster.

I do have a distinct memory of my mom finding a mouse in a glue trap at home and drowning it in the sink. I was surprised how quickly it drowned. Matter of seconds.

Wii_Shaker posted...

That's a personal choice. I would prefer not to free it because it'll likely end up back in the house. I don't really have the stomach to finish it off. Maybe if it were suffering I'd mercy kill it.

Good old-fashion snap traps can crush a mouse's skull or break it's spine killing it instantly. That's how I'd like to go if I were a mouse.

Fair enough.

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Mingue posted...

This has to be dumbest take I've seen here today.

The truth hurts mayne, better to accept it and forget it

Yeah no fuck mice

They're hard to catch and super annoying. I once lived in a two story town home and for some reason had some annoying mice in my main bedroom. Not downstairs in the kitchen where the food is at, but upstairs in my bedroom where I dont eat or have food.

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I've had a few mice in my apartment before. I always use a humane trap, then release them a bit of distance away so they hopefully don't return here.

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Were_Wyrm posted...

Apparently they're more effective than the traps I'm using, I guess I need to switch. Thanks for the heads up.

what makes you feel the need to make light of animal cruelty? @Were_Wyrm

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

We have mice right now. Relocating one today. Unfortunately one seems to have moved within the box to a hole and fallen down it - couldnt do anything about that. But we will carefully tape the underside only now to prevent injury and future half-escapees. 2 to a box were cheaper than one. My family wants to switch to snap traps if it doesnt work out - but Im not really sure why it wouldnt - might just take a lot of relocating. I refuse for them to use glue.

Bear in mind you're going to need to relocate those mice at least 5 miles away, not just down the street. Otherwise theres a chance they might return.

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Work in a pet warehouse, they have nets around that birds get trapped in from time to time

Usually they get the sanitation guy to shoot it with a high powered BB gun but the last couple theyve just left in the net to pretty much die of exhaustion trying to free themselves

The last one a coworker said fuck it and freed it and put it outside(think a wing was broken ) then got told dont do that again, leave it there

I understand you cant have animals in a pet warehouse but still fucked up, rather have someone end the suffering with a BB gun than let it die a slow death
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I use the catch and release traps with a little bit of peanut butter. Works like a charm. The only shitty part is finding a place to free them.

These pests piss all over your floors and belongings and shit everywhere

Good job tc. You made a brutal mistake. It's going to come back in a few days with an army of mice and will take over the building

CommonStar posted...

I use the catch and release traps with a little bit of peanut butter. Works like a charm. The only shitty part is finding a place to free them.

I've tried that for a week now but the mouse just isn't biting.

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