In article >,
June Oshiro > wrote:

> COTTP wrote:
>
> > Decided to use the glue traps at the time. Well, next day when I came in
> > there were two of the little critters stuck to it. What to do, what to
> > do.
>
> That's the thing about glue traps - they're alive and stuck and panicked
> and crying and you have to kill them. Snap traps are much more humane,
> imo. Old bf and I had a glue trapped mouse one time, had to hit its
> head with a hammer to kill it. That was just creepy. He wanted to
> reuse the trap, so he grabbed the mousey corpse with a paper towel to
> remove it, it mostly came off, but its tail was still in the glue.
> D'oh. At least it was alreay dead by then.
>
> -j.
>

IMHO glue traps are the most horrible and inhumane things that man has
ever come up with. :-( If the animal is lucky, it'll shove it's nose and
mouth into the glue and suffocate. Otherwise, they slowly die of
starvation/dehydration.

Kinda like crucifixion. :-P

If you MUST use glue traps, at least kill the poor things when they get
trapped! If you can't hit them, toss the glue trap into a pail of water
and walk away for an hour or so. <sigh> Still not fun, but better than
the alternative.

I'd like to see those damned things outlawed. At least snap traps are
quick, and the coumadin based poisons cause the animal to bleed to
death. Not really painful at all. That is what I use if I get a bad rat
infestation around the livestock...

Just my opinion. I HATE glue traps! They are inhumane...

K.

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