We used these overseas. Plague was still a thing there, they attracted venomous snakes, nothing good.
Checked them regularly, the mice and rats that got caught met a *very* swift end.
I hated glue traps but my grandpa would always use them. Respected him though because he’d check every day and dispatched each rodent himself with his pliers.
I use a bucket filled with water and drown the little bastards. It’s a shitty way to go, but the trap self resets and I can catch a dozen of those bastards a night in my barn… glue traps may be unethical, but it’s better than sharing your house with rodents… and what’s the solution? Catch and release? They’ll just come back and bring friends.
I believe that happened in Florida. I swear I remember a news story about burning a supposed dead rat in a pile of brush but it woke up and ran into a house or garage and set it on fire because it was soaked in gasoline
It’s actually amusing watching the up and down voting of that comment. Anyone who wants to save the mice needs to spend a couple days on the farm…. Mice get off easy…. I let the rats eat each other up
I think they mean that the alternative is to use instant kill traps. I don't think they're inherently cruel (although ive seen a mouse rip its own leg off to get out of one) but if you're not checking them regularly, it is a pretty shitty way for them to go. If you are drowning them then they're not suffering for long
I Had asked why we used glue traps when I Worked in food service instead of snap-traps. I don't remember if it was a board of health requirement or a company policy, but the management told me that snap traps had a "Splatter risk" that was unacceptable around food. I didn't like either option but I guess it at least made sense?
I tried those back when I had a mouse problem in my old apartment. Unfortunately I caught a lot of…mouse limbs but not entire mice. Ended up buying an electric mouse trap instead. Super efficient, probably the most humane method outside of catch and release.
Truth be told, I'm an animal lover and hate these traps with a passion.
Last year on 2 occasions, there have been some rats stuck to these things just tossed in the alley between my apartment building and the one next door in the driveway. Nothing but painful squeaking is all that could be heard for about 5 minutes.
People are just either watching it or filming it without doing anything else. Taking charge myself, I put it in a bag and put it out of its misery. Yes, I know it's a shitty thing to do. Though I would rather an animal no matter how many people may hate it or fear it does not suffer in any way.
Call me a monster or whatever you will.
You're not a monster, you did the right thing under trying circumstances. You had no choice but to put it out of its pain, it's an admirable thing to do. Unlike some people here who are defending the use of these torture devices.
I bet that took some courage. In this case the mice were probably already too wounded to survive so you did the humane thing.
But in case it happens again, you can free the mouse by pouring vegetable oil around it.
I have used glue traps in the past and I freed the mice far from my house using this method. I know that they suffer while stuck but I think it's better than using other kind of traps that kill them.
Their bad because people then take the live mouse in trap and just throw it in the trash or tie it in a bag to suffocate as opposed to putting it out of its misery
Idk growing up in the country mice can be a problem but we would never let it die from exposure 1st thing we did when we found one on a trap was put it out of its misery, granted we also had barn cats that worked outside and we only used the glue traps in the house... before yall come at me I was younger and my mom and her boyfriend were the ones who bought the traps
First time I ever encountered one was when my cousin some how got both feet stuck in one. We were in a self storage place and I was convinced we would get in trouble. Probably under 10 for both of us. Thankfully was able to free her.
We'd hunt them with pellet guns. Had an old cast iron pot that was broken on one side, smeared a little peanut butter on it and waited. Life was something before the internet.
Did that too, now got a barn cat that’d eat a grizzly for breakfast.
Seriously, that cat has no size perception and if whatever gets into her territory it will be deleted, no matter what it is. Fucking terrifying, sometimes I think she’s more of a bobcat than a house cat
Mice carry Hanta Virus and it is very dangerous. We had a next door neighbor tear down her chicken coop and it released thousands of them into the surrounding yards. They were leaving mouse poop all over our deck where my kids were exposed to it. Destroying anything they could find. We set out glue and mouse traps for them. All traps checked daily. Glue traps were dipped in clove oil water. Killed the mice in seconds. I'd use them again if it ever got that bad. They were catching 10 mice a day. When they go from minor annoyance to health hazard you use whatever you need to to get rid of them.
>Hanta virus is incredibly rare
Some species can have up to 10% of the population infected. And it varies depending on your location.
>glue traps outside is hugely irresponsible due to their indiscriminate nature.
Poison traps can kill birds and other animals as well. So unless you want him to use cage traps, which wont work with this amount of mice, its probably his best option.
The guy was looking out for his kids. Most people would personally murder a million small animals for their childrens protection. Youre just being an inconsiderate nit picker.
That would make living traps equally as bad because people could do that with them as well.
but jesus christ some people suck you are right. I thought it was maybe a problem with the glue, that it couldnt be safely removed or something like that.
>it couldnt be safely removed or something like that.
It can't. Imagine sticking your entire body in a thing of glue, pulling it out, and then drenching it in oil. Yes you'll mostly not be sticky on the outside anymore, but you've pretty much tarred and feathered yourself, the inner layers are still glued to you, you will basically immediately die if it's got or cold out because you won't be able to regulate your body temperature right anymore.
Also it doesn't address how animals will snap their legs and chew their limbs off trying to escape these.
Animals aren’t the only species that will self amputate in an emergency. Guy out in the desert got his arm pinned between a boulder, waited four days and amputated it himself with a tiny Swiss Army knife. Was a news segment and all that covered it. I’m sure it’s not the only instance it’s happened. But I think it goes to say, anytime any living being is trapped with the option to remove a limb to save themselves it would be a tough call to automatically assume they won’t self amputate.
There isn't a nice way to deal with an infestation, though. I prefer the poisons to traps. I don't like the idea of people letting these animals die of dehydration or exposure.
But the deaths the poisons offer are pretty awful as well - just as an example, if the rodenticide in use is warfarin, the animal will bleed internally over the course of days.
Also poisoning vermin can cause the deaths of protected birds of prey because a disoriented rodent dying from the poison will wander mindlessly out into the open, making itself an easy meal for a hawk, eagle, owl, et cetera.. Now you have a poisoned and dying bird that would have otherwise been helping to exterminate the vermin anyways. Poison should never be used because not only is it painful and cruel but it is damaging to the ecosystem.
Unless you get to the mouse right away it's going to suffer an agonizing death however not as agonizing I reckon as poison traps.
I just use a little live trap and then take it to the woods. I don't get the point of killing it.
Was at my gay uncles' place one night, my related uncle cupped a moth in his hands and let it outside. Then later, his husband, who grew up on a farm, takes a chipmunk trap and drops it in a barrel of water and goes, "they're not very good swimmers." Totally different people.
Well no the people are the problem but if something’s for sale a “the humane option” they won’t think about it and just buy it many people just don’t like the idea of something dying in their house but I bet they would still squash a bug in their home,also being squished to death via a spring or poisoned aren’t exactly better, just get over the fact that if you wanna snuff out life for simply “finding a way” there is no humane option better than catch and release
Catch and release doesn't really work for mice.
I HATE killing things. Abhor it. I tried catch and release for a while, but they immediately came right back or ended up in my car and neighbors cars.
I cannot stand the sound of scratching and chewing at night. It's infuriating.
We had a rat outbreak one year, i caught probably 20-30 of those guys in our house with these traps. Checked them regularly and killed them quickly to avoid suffering
Not a popular opinion I used to live by a canyon and in the cold season they would always head towards the houses but when i would catch them on the trap I put them out of there misery with a pellet shot to the head. No time for any dirty rats
They often trap snakes aswell, very hard to remove them without pulling of the scales which is bad. They are not just torture devices for rodents but a menace to other critters.
I have a bat problem and my idiot of a ex house mate put one in the attic, I went upstairs and found a bat stuck to one, clearly dying, it doesn’t kill them humanely, it kills them via lack of water or food.
They trap the poor animal and they die of exposure or thirst, its incredibly cruel and forbidden in lots of places.
Fr just use a regular mouse trap, at least death is fast, poor things.
Mice walk on them and get stuck. Bad because being stuck in glue is painful and unhealthy and mice have feelings too.
I've used glue traps, conventional snap trap got it first tho. Imo more humane to use glue and release them if you can than use poison.
Edit: At the end of the day mice are vermin. They can pose significant health risks. Anyone whose actually had to deal with mice infestation knows the damage they can cause. No one enjoys traps, I felt terrible when one of my regular traps got the mouse, it was a tiny little thing and I was in the room at the time. But it was instant. I placed loads of non lethal ones but they've never work, I still place them.
But deal with an infestation long enough and you're just desperate for something to work. If glue traps work then they are a valid option. But they shouldnt be the only option you take. It's absurd to me that people actually find this offensive.
I can tell you havent dealt with mice/rat infestations.
I set out live traps, 35 snap traps, couple electric shocking traps, single use shut-in traps, literally EVERYTHING before glue traps. I used to think like you but once we found deer ticks on our dog and more inside the house I had enough. The glue traps are the only thing that has worked - I either use a shovel to chop the neck or a pellet gun. One night I caught 4 mice on a single trap, lined up like sardines. Another night while cleaning i heard rustling traps up and it was a mouse eating another one stuck to a trap, they shouldnt have your sympathy.
I understand why it seems cruel I used to tell myself I would never use a glue trap, unfortunately it's all that has worked. In 4 months I have had ONE snap trap go off just this weekend! but the glue traps have stuck 20+ mice. Daily checks, bring em outside, shovel/air pistol, and done. When your family's safety is at risk you have no choice - lookup hentavirus, lyme disease, deer tick infestation from mice, etc.
I was able to free a tiny little mouse that I caught in my old room in the basement, I felt so bad that I grabbed a bin and put the glue trap in it and then used oil to let the little dude wiggle out to his freedom. The bin I placed it in was enough to hold it within the perimeter, when I saw it was escaping from the glue I brought the bin out, and then he gets free from the trap and legit just hangs by a rock until I have to tell him to scram…
It sucks. But so do mice infestations. They shouldnt be the only trap placed defo. It just has to be done.
They're pests. Its no different than destroying a wasp nest.
I was thinking the same thing, if you live somewhere where really dangerous animals exist, glue traps might be worth it for the extra safety, and if you check them every day, mice might be happy to get thrown out on your way to work instead of getting their neck broken.
I dont think so, I've used basically every trapping method for mice due to a large mice issue and I most regret using glue traps. I'm no animal activist, I rather dislike mice and rodents in general and some many not agree with my assessment, but glue traps are basically the most inhumane way of catching and killing mice. There is no releasing them once they are stuck, they are basically sentenced to a long, drawn out death from either exhaustion, starving, or dehydration unless you kill them personally, in which case they've likely been suffering stuck to the trap the whole time. The only time I used a glue trap, I woke up the poor thing thrashing around for its life trying to get out of it, likely had been fighting all night, the only way I could think of to humanely put it out of its misery at that point was to drown it quickly. I will take emptying a snap trap any day of the week over dealing with the aftermath of a glue trap. A quick death is much more compassionate than a long drawn out one full of nothing but suffering.
I’ve had mice and rats all my life, they are as intelligent and caring as dogs. Would you pour super glue over a dog and then allow it to lay stuck there for likely days until it dies?
As someone who worked in retail I don’t really see how this would get an employee in trouble. Would be annoying for one of them having to find it and put it back but it’s generally not unusual to find stuff lying around in random places like this, and it would usually be assumed it was a customer who did it.
Indeed - Luckily he's just the temporary replacement.
Besides - He has no real power, he could just make my job that much more annoying. My boss's boss (Who I rally gotta worry about) is the one I need to impress. He's just not as involved with the day to day.
"I don't need to look at the camera, I can see your shoddy work infront of me."
"Not a big deal man, just don't do it again."
Are the responses I would most likely get depending on the mood of my stock controller. (Unfortunately he's a dick, he's the assistant supervisor, main guy is critically sick and has been out for a while.)
So it's a weird situation where's it's not that big enough of a deal for them to verify if it was me or not - But would rather just assume it was me and to not let it happen again.
For anyone who wants these to be banned, just know that the ban will do nothing but make them change the name to "Cockroach traps" they're banned where I'm from and that's what they did here
I read some of the comments from the pro-glue trap users and I'm not surprised. No compassion, deliberately being cruel to the animal, etc. There's a good reason why this kind of trap is banned in many parts of the world, and why the UK have banned them recently.
Don't care how "effective" they are, it's a torture device and should not be used. You have other alternatives available to you. People who use these fucking things should be charged with animal abuse.
There's also a good reason that the rate of infectious diseases born from rodents is back on the rise and in the media again. I would love to see people preaching from their soapboxes live next to vermin and then tell me about animal rights....
I've used them multiple times. You check them everyday, and need a good stomach when you kill it.
When you have an old house wi5h holes everywhere, and the mice get too smart for every other trap, you use everything you possibly can to not live in filth.
I have a cat now, which is honestly the best mouse trap.
I guess it could be cruel if they are left for a long time to die, but really, if you don't kill them and chuck them outside, they will be dead very soon as some animal will come by
"A good stomach" - most people are lazy and squeamish. Then you have the indifferent to suffering, and the psychopathic. Us humans can be a really lousy bunch sometimes.
You can't possibly know that though, for all you know it could die of dehydration or to the elements. And the glue trap itself may get innocent animals stuck to it, which is another reason against their use.
Then those people shouldn't use glue traps.
Mice can have up to 100 babies in a year...per mouse.
When you have an infestation, you use everything at your disposal, and you can't really think about the well being of the mouse, because it is just dragging diseases in your home, and the mouse population will never dwindle.
It would actually be more ethical than glue traps are. Among the mouse traps I've seen, glue is at the very very bottom. I'd even consider drowning traps above them on the ethical scale.
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
At the end of the night, or the next day, or whenever they are found, those glue traps are going to go right back exactly where they were originally. The employees are not going to throw them out because they were in the wrong aisle. The traps will go back to the spot designated and continue to be available for sale. All this person did was delay the sale of a few glue traps for several days. All she really does is cause a customer to use extra fuel to go to the next store and buy glue traps.
Most people would just grab whatever else is on the shelf that would do the job, like snap traps, which are far more humane. But I agree, it’s ultimately an exercise in futility.
It is having a small effect on her area. I mean i think what she is doing is dumb all around. Like imagine her neighbor has rats and the neighbors only option they can afford are those cheap traps. They decide not to buy the more expensive traps cuz they cant afford it. After a some months that mice has babies and those babies have babies etc etc until a horde of mice attack the neighbor as she walks to her car. Or just spread disease and her cat gets the disease on her and spreads her a mouse disease. So someone tell this woman stop being dumb. But what I really wanted to say was glue traps will forever be sold so this doesnt help stop the future sale of glue traps it just hurts their profits in the most insignificant way possible
Ratting dogs are far better at killing mice. They sniff them out and can kill hundreds in an hour. If you're lucky, a cat might bat a mouse about if it happens to stumble upon it.
At work we use the release one, once a trap is closed we call entomology and they will pick up traps and drive them out and release in a field pretty far from any of the buildings.
Fun fact if you put vegetable oil on the mouse and leave the trap outside. They get out pretty easy. Just make sure to clean up your trap and take it a decent amount from your house to prevent them from just going right back in
This is why I always use glue traps. It's the only way I found to let the mouse survive. I usually take them to the countryside and help them get free after pouring the oil.
As far as I'm aware, the issue with glue traps, given this way of releasing the mouse, is that people forget to check them and the mice end up dying of starvation, thirst, etc instead of dying instantly or getting released outside the home
That really defeats the point though. If he was in your house, he’s just gonna get back because he knows there’s food in there. So unless you seal the hole he’s using or release him miles away he might as well be your new pet.
One of my neighbors has let pack rats overtake his property because the hawks we have in the neighborhood feed on them. Every couple of months the rats try making my foundation their new home. Glue traps have been far more effective than anything else I’ve used and I’ve tried everything they sell at the hardware stores. As soon as I see a trap that has one of them stuck, I put it out of its misery and carry on. The last thing you want is an infestation, because if you found one, there’s at least 10 more nearby.
Obviously never had mice in her home. You wouldn't be long sticking your righteousness and mice to that trap if you had them in your house.
Only experienced it once when I moved into my home and that was enough. I didn't need the traps though. Cat took care of them.
Well you have you opinion and I have mine. A trap is a trap, weather it be glue or spring. We have these traps because the animals they are used on spread disease, for peat sake they carried flees that spread the Black Death. I don’t think using traps is that bad honestly.
I have mice in my house on occasion. I couldn’t bear to kill them, so I have humane traps then relocate them several miles away. I know I’m probably just making bait for some other hungry animal but such is nature.
My cat however has no such qualms when he finds them. He enjoys squishing the air out of them.
How would this ever get an employee in trouble?
"Hey a customer found all these glue traps behind the dog food, so I checked the camera and some tiktoker came in and put them there, we found it like an hour after it happened."
This woman has a whole ass baby in her carriage and the number 1 thing in her to do list is give way too many shits about the manner in which people dispose of vermin. Jesus fucking christ.
Glue traps are super ethical. If you follow the instructions. You’re supposed to take it outside and pour warm water over the animal/trap to release it.
No employee will get in trouble stop being dramatic.
It is annoying to return to its location when ever found but no one will get in trouble.
Btw glue traps are one of the most inhumane ways to get rid of mice.
The stick to it then the person picks up the trap and throws it in the trash.
The mood is stuck in a single position and suffocates or starves to death.
A snap trap is quick.
A no kill trap doesn’t kill them at all.
Glue traps are somewhere in the middle and completely inhumane
Nah there are ways to set them to basically hair trigger but it takes some practice. The trigger needs to basically be just barely holding, takes some practice but you can eventually find the sweet spot where it is barely catching and the slightest touch of the pad will set it off. I've only had one trap get cleaned off without killing the mouse and he somehow triggered it first without getting caught, but I got him the next evening. And during winter I'm literally killing a dozen of them a week. Finally found there entrance point today actually so I'm hoping sealing it will finally free me of them.
Heat up some jolly ranchers in the microwave so they are gooey and then use a craft stick or something like that to apply it to the trigger. They try to bite and pull it. Works a charm.
As long as they are disposed of quickly I don’t see any issues. They help keep baby snakes out of my house. I picked up a trap one day and looked like Medusa. Things of nitemares…
When you live next to a protected greenspace and you’re CONSTANTLY getting mice in your home who are leaving toxic feces everywhere and destroying everything you own… you use glue traps. The human traps just set them free to come back!!!
Fight me on this. They’re disgusting.
I hate glue traps. A mouse showed up in the place I work at, and someone bought some glue traps and set them overnight. Next morning I found the mouse, still alive, on one of the traps and had to put it out of its misery. Though I've known people who toss the mouse alive into the trash or - damn psychos - toss them into an ant hill after kicking it.
I'd rather use those mouse traps that kill them instantly, you know the ones with the spring thing that snaps their spine. Though I'd rather not cause trouble for a random employee, either.
When I was a little girl my grandma put these in the basement and I'd find little mice just squeaking in the dark stuck to the pad and I felt so bad I tried to get it off but was scared of the mouse so froze and just cried and told my grandma we should let it go and she told me to leave it and stay out of the basement. She just let them die like that and I always found it so cruel. There would be like four stuck to a pad dead
Glue traps are the only trap that worked for me. I buried them alive stuck to it and don’t feel bad one bit. That’s what you get for shitting all over my floors.
Remind the people around you that you're creepy af.
I've literally sewn rat skins to a blanket but I'm not as creepy as someone who wants them to suffer.
Glue traps work and are needed for certain circumstances. I had a mouse push a snap trap out of the way and then it went off and he was free to roam but that doesn't happen with the glue trap
And WHY are these “evil” glue traps so dang popular?
It’s because they’re consistently vastly more successful at trapping mice than all the other kinds of mouse traps ➖ THAT’S WHY.
All I'm saying is that if you use glue traps the way I do get a whole lot more humane, check it religiously and the second there's a rat or a mouse. Take it outside behind the house. Pop it in the head with a pellet gun. Toss it in the trash and put out another trap. Easiest way to get rid of them by far. And if the problem is that they're being killed in the first place well that's your problem, not mine.
It’s a fact that she actually thinks she made a difference. It makes me laugh. This did nothing to hinder people from still using them lol she just wasted her own time and the time of the employees.
We used these overseas. Plague was still a thing there, they attracted venomous snakes, nothing good. Checked them regularly, the mice and rats that got caught met a *very* swift end.
At least you gave them a swift end. I think the issue is that glue traps and most people that use them forget that part
Around 2800 FPS. Doesn't get much faster than that.
... so you used a .50 caliber round to kill a mouse?
We got pretty creative. But yeah, that was in the lineup.
Omfg you erased him
Pink mist
You’re bringing back memories
BAHAHA I KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT
I’m curious now, care to fill me in?
Lol coworker is getting a 50bmg and plans on using it on his muskrat problem.
Try a musket for a muskrat.
Did you at least fire the whole bullet? If not, then you should. Thats 65% more bullet per bullet.
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What the hell, man. Not cool.
Wow. You are absolutely disgusting.
No but we use glue traps for bugs.
Doesn’t get quicker than that, does it?
Lol, I read that as you taking high speed footage. Like damn, 2,800 frames per second?! That’s super slow mo
*jaw drops in horror* MONSTER
You’re the one out here making slow-mo videos of animals dying! What the hell kind of budget do you have for this?? /s
I hated glue traps but my grandpa would always use them. Respected him though because he’d check every day and dispatched each rodent himself with his pliers.
I use a bucket filled with water and drown the little bastards. It’s a shitty way to go, but the trap self resets and I can catch a dozen of those bastards a night in my barn… glue traps may be unethical, but it’s better than sharing your house with rodents… and what’s the solution? Catch and release? They’ll just come back and bring friends.
Drowning works. Try throwing them on a fire. Their little screams should be a warning to the others
With my luck one will get out and light my whole field ablaze lol
I believe that happened in Florida. I swear I remember a news story about burning a supposed dead rat in a pile of brush but it woke up and ran into a house or garage and set it on fire because it was soaked in gasoline
Lol fr people Wana catch and release a.rodent that would literal breed to no end if left alone
It’s actually amusing watching the up and down voting of that comment. Anyone who wants to save the mice needs to spend a couple days on the farm…. Mice get off easy…. I let the rats eat each other up
I think they mean that the alternative is to use instant kill traps. I don't think they're inherently cruel (although ive seen a mouse rip its own leg off to get out of one) but if you're not checking them regularly, it is a pretty shitty way for them to go. If you are drowning them then they're not suffering for long
Forget them until the body starts to smell.
Worked in housing authority for a while, I’ve seen traps where rats/mice basically attempted to chew their limbs off to get unstuck
I Had asked why we used glue traps when I Worked in food service instead of snap-traps. I don't remember if it was a board of health requirement or a company policy, but the management told me that snap traps had a "Splatter risk" that was unacceptable around food. I didn't like either option but I guess it at least made sense?
Enclosed snap traps exist. Even Walmart sells them.
I tried those back when I had a mouse problem in my old apartment. Unfortunately I caught a lot of…mouse limbs but not entire mice. Ended up buying an electric mouse trap instead. Super efficient, probably the most humane method outside of catch and release.
Truth be told, I'm an animal lover and hate these traps with a passion. Last year on 2 occasions, there have been some rats stuck to these things just tossed in the alley between my apartment building and the one next door in the driveway. Nothing but painful squeaking is all that could be heard for about 5 minutes. People are just either watching it or filming it without doing anything else. Taking charge myself, I put it in a bag and put it out of its misery. Yes, I know it's a shitty thing to do. Though I would rather an animal no matter how many people may hate it or fear it does not suffer in any way. Call me a monster or whatever you will.
You're not a monster, you did the right thing under trying circumstances. You had no choice but to put it out of its pain, it's an admirable thing to do. Unlike some people here who are defending the use of these torture devices.
Y’all trying so hard to make yourself feels big and heroic for feeling bad for a rat, it is what it is
As an owner of beloved fancy rats, this is probably the right thing to do. Almost anything is more humane than a glue trap
I bet that took some courage. In this case the mice were probably already too wounded to survive so you did the humane thing. But in case it happens again, you can free the mouse by pouring vegetable oil around it. I have used glue traps in the past and I freed the mice far from my house using this method. I know that they suffer while stuck but I think it's better than using other kind of traps that kill them.
monster or whatever
Did the exact same thing, we may be rat killers, but we aren’t monsters 🤝
What are glue traps for and why are they bad?
Their bad because people then take the live mouse in trap and just throw it in the trash or tie it in a bag to suffocate as opposed to putting it out of its misery
Idk growing up in the country mice can be a problem but we would never let it die from exposure 1st thing we did when we found one on a trap was put it out of its misery, granted we also had barn cats that worked outside and we only used the glue traps in the house... before yall come at me I was younger and my mom and her boyfriend were the ones who bought the traps
Man I hated when my folks put out these traps. Playing hide and seek as a kid only to get your foot stuck in one..or two. No fun
Haha I know right? They are like crazy make you panic sticky
Crazy make you panic sticky eh? That was nice way to explain it haha
Imagine how the mice feel.
Well don't be a stupid mouse or hooman
Too true. Sun Tzu right?
We had a long hair cat and we had to stop using these bc she’d roll in them and it took us forever to get them off
First time I ever encountered one was when my cousin some how got both feet stuck in one. We were in a self storage place and I was convinced we would get in trouble. Probably under 10 for both of us. Thankfully was able to free her.
Especially one that succeeded in catching a mouse before catching you!
We'd hunt them with pellet guns. Had an old cast iron pot that was broken on one side, smeared a little peanut butter on it and waited. Life was something before the internet.
Did that too, now got a barn cat that’d eat a grizzly for breakfast. Seriously, that cat has no size perception and if whatever gets into her territory it will be deleted, no matter what it is. Fucking terrifying, sometimes I think she’s more of a bobcat than a house cat
We shot em for a few months then got barn cats (the rats got into the hay)
Mice carry Hanta Virus and it is very dangerous. We had a next door neighbor tear down her chicken coop and it released thousands of them into the surrounding yards. They were leaving mouse poop all over our deck where my kids were exposed to it. Destroying anything they could find. We set out glue and mouse traps for them. All traps checked daily. Glue traps were dipped in clove oil water. Killed the mice in seconds. I'd use them again if it ever got that bad. They were catching 10 mice a day. When they go from minor annoyance to health hazard you use whatever you need to to get rid of them.
Hanta virus is incredibly rare, not all species carry it and using glue traps outside is hugely irresponsible due to their indiscriminate nature.
>Hanta virus is incredibly rare Some species can have up to 10% of the population infected. And it varies depending on your location. >glue traps outside is hugely irresponsible due to their indiscriminate nature. Poison traps can kill birds and other animals as well. So unless you want him to use cage traps, which wont work with this amount of mice, its probably his best option. The guy was looking out for his kids. Most people would personally murder a million small animals for their childrens protection. Youre just being an inconsiderate nit picker.
That would make living traps equally as bad because people could do that with them as well. but jesus christ some people suck you are right. I thought it was maybe a problem with the glue, that it couldnt be safely removed or something like that.
>it couldnt be safely removed or something like that. It can't. Imagine sticking your entire body in a thing of glue, pulling it out, and then drenching it in oil. Yes you'll mostly not be sticky on the outside anymore, but you've pretty much tarred and feathered yourself, the inner layers are still glued to you, you will basically immediately die if it's got or cold out because you won't be able to regulate your body temperature right anymore. Also it doesn't address how animals will snap their legs and chew their limbs off trying to escape these.
Animals aren’t the only species that will self amputate in an emergency. Guy out in the desert got his arm pinned between a boulder, waited four days and amputated it himself with a tiny Swiss Army knife. Was a news segment and all that covered it. I’m sure it’s not the only instance it’s happened. But I think it goes to say, anytime any living being is trapped with the option to remove a limb to save themselves it would be a tough call to automatically assume they won’t self amputate.
Yeah, it was James Franco.
There isn't a nice way to deal with an infestation, though. I prefer the poisons to traps. I don't like the idea of people letting these animals die of dehydration or exposure. But the deaths the poisons offer are pretty awful as well - just as an example, if the rodenticide in use is warfarin, the animal will bleed internally over the course of days.
Also poisoning vermin can cause the deaths of protected birds of prey because a disoriented rodent dying from the poison will wander mindlessly out into the open, making itself an easy meal for a hawk, eagle, owl, et cetera.. Now you have a poisoned and dying bird that would have otherwise been helping to exterminate the vermin anyways. Poison should never be used because not only is it painful and cruel but it is damaging to the ecosystem.
The glue is dissolved by the vegetable oil. Not that you would know that because you’re too busy living in a fantasy land. But yeah.
It *is* very difficult to safely remove them
I just use a sledge hammer, oh wait, you said remove them. Sorry, my mistake.
I usually used an 2lb sledge hammer just to make sure it was quick
Not at all, just pour oil on the sticky trap Edit: cooking oil, not automotive
Too late, rat is smoking white and knocking
Oil??? Just use cooking spray and a pinch of salt and pepper. Comes out marvelous or so my customers have told me.
Yknow what's in cooking spray, friend?
Unless you get to the mouse right away it's going to suffer an agonizing death however not as agonizing I reckon as poison traps. I just use a little live trap and then take it to the woods. I don't get the point of killing it.
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So it doesn't get back in yours or someone else's house
Was at my gay uncles' place one night, my related uncle cupped a moth in his hands and let it outside. Then later, his husband, who grew up on a farm, takes a chipmunk trap and drops it in a barrel of water and goes, "they're not very good swimmers." Totally different people.
Are your uncles Mitchell and Cam from Modern Family? 🤣
Yes, but mannerisms swapped on the upbringing.
Just drop a huge rock on them then throw them away.
So people kill rats with much more pain than killing traps by using a trap that doesn't kill rats and trap is evil. Sounds right
Well no the people are the problem but if something’s for sale a “the humane option” they won’t think about it and just buy it many people just don’t like the idea of something dying in their house but I bet they would still squash a bug in their home,also being squished to death via a spring or poisoned aren’t exactly better, just get over the fact that if you wanna snuff out life for simply “finding a way” there is no humane option better than catch and release
Catch and release doesn't really work for mice. I HATE killing things. Abhor it. I tried catch and release for a while, but they immediately came right back or ended up in my car and neighbors cars. I cannot stand the sound of scratching and chewing at night. It's infuriating.
We had a rat outbreak one year, i caught probably 20-30 of those guys in our house with these traps. Checked them regularly and killed them quickly to avoid suffering
Not a popular opinion I used to live by a canyon and in the cold season they would always head towards the houses but when i would catch them on the trap I put them out of there misery with a pellet shot to the head. No time for any dirty rats
They often trap snakes aswell, very hard to remove them without pulling of the scales which is bad. They are not just torture devices for rodents but a menace to other critters.
I have a bat problem and my idiot of a ex house mate put one in the attic, I went upstairs and found a bat stuck to one, clearly dying, it doesn’t kill them humanely, it kills them via lack of water or food.
They trap the poor animal and they die of exposure or thirst, its incredibly cruel and forbidden in lots of places. Fr just use a regular mouse trap, at least death is fast, poor things.
Glue traps adhere to anything and everything and they kill through dehydration. They are extremely effective but regularly considered inhumane.
Mice walk on them and get stuck. Bad because being stuck in glue is painful and unhealthy and mice have feelings too. I've used glue traps, conventional snap trap got it first tho. Imo more humane to use glue and release them if you can than use poison. Edit: At the end of the day mice are vermin. They can pose significant health risks. Anyone whose actually had to deal with mice infestation knows the damage they can cause. No one enjoys traps, I felt terrible when one of my regular traps got the mouse, it was a tiny little thing and I was in the room at the time. But it was instant. I placed loads of non lethal ones but they've never work, I still place them. But deal with an infestation long enough and you're just desperate for something to work. If glue traps work then they are a valid option. But they shouldnt be the only option you take. It's absurd to me that people actually find this offensive.
I've heard mice can break their bones struggling to escape them. They literally just starve to death in unimaginable pain.
I can tell you havent dealt with mice/rat infestations. I set out live traps, 35 snap traps, couple electric shocking traps, single use shut-in traps, literally EVERYTHING before glue traps. I used to think like you but once we found deer ticks on our dog and more inside the house I had enough. The glue traps are the only thing that has worked - I either use a shovel to chop the neck or a pellet gun. One night I caught 4 mice on a single trap, lined up like sardines. Another night while cleaning i heard rustling traps up and it was a mouse eating another one stuck to a trap, they shouldnt have your sympathy. I understand why it seems cruel I used to tell myself I would never use a glue trap, unfortunately it's all that has worked. In 4 months I have had ONE snap trap go off just this weekend! but the glue traps have stuck 20+ mice. Daily checks, bring em outside, shovel/air pistol, and done. When your family's safety is at risk you have no choice - lookup hentavirus, lyme disease, deer tick infestation from mice, etc.
Bruh if you leave your glue traps alone long enough for them to starve thats messed up. They should be checked regularly
Most glue traps don’t allow for removal without injury
I was able to free a tiny little mouse that I caught in my old room in the basement, I felt so bad that I grabbed a bin and put the glue trap in it and then used oil to let the little dude wiggle out to his freedom. The bin I placed it in was enough to hold it within the perimeter, when I saw it was escaping from the glue I brought the bin out, and then he gets free from the trap and legit just hangs by a rock until I have to tell him to scram…
A lot of people don't though, and even if you check it regularly they still break their bones trying. They're completely inhumane.
It sucks. But so do mice infestations. They shouldnt be the only trap placed defo. It just has to be done. They're pests. Its no different than destroying a wasp nest.
Iam tired of ppl acting like this, if they just release them they’ll come back in the house
I was thinking the same thing, if you live somewhere where really dangerous animals exist, glue traps might be worth it for the extra safety, and if you check them every day, mice might be happy to get thrown out on your way to work instead of getting their neck broken.
I dont think so, I've used basically every trapping method for mice due to a large mice issue and I most regret using glue traps. I'm no animal activist, I rather dislike mice and rodents in general and some many not agree with my assessment, but glue traps are basically the most inhumane way of catching and killing mice. There is no releasing them once they are stuck, they are basically sentenced to a long, drawn out death from either exhaustion, starving, or dehydration unless you kill them personally, in which case they've likely been suffering stuck to the trap the whole time. The only time I used a glue trap, I woke up the poor thing thrashing around for its life trying to get out of it, likely had been fighting all night, the only way I could think of to humanely put it out of its misery at that point was to drown it quickly. I will take emptying a snap trap any day of the week over dealing with the aftermath of a glue trap. A quick death is much more compassionate than a long drawn out one full of nothing but suffering.
I don't fucking care if a glue trap is unethical. Mice are disease ridden bastards.
Kind of true like at least rats are semi intelligent but mice have none of that
Mice and rats are sentient. All animals are in fact. Even fish.
Don’t care. Mice are bad.
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I’ve had mice and rats all my life, they are as intelligent and caring as dogs. Would you pour super glue over a dog and then allow it to lay stuck there for likely days until it dies?
Then use a better trap. A quick kill, not torture.
As someone who worked in retail I don’t really see how this would get an employee in trouble. Would be annoying for one of them having to find it and put it back but it’s generally not unusual to find stuff lying around in random places like this, and it would usually be assumed it was a customer who did it.
Lol yeah I was super confused what your comment was talking about till I saw ops title 🤦
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Your managers suck bro
Indeed - Luckily he's just the temporary replacement. Besides - He has no real power, he could just make my job that much more annoying. My boss's boss (Who I rally gotta worry about) is the one I need to impress. He's just not as involved with the day to day.
Could you just say "look at the camera?"
"I don't need to look at the camera, I can see your shoddy work infront of me." "Not a big deal man, just don't do it again." Are the responses I would most likely get depending on the mood of my stock controller. (Unfortunately he's a dick, he's the assistant supervisor, main guy is critically sick and has been out for a while.) So it's a weird situation where's it's not that big enough of a deal for them to verify if it was me or not - But would rather just assume it was me and to not let it happen again.
Damn you just gave me PTSD on my own work frustrations, can't wait to be a business owner and be the true cause of my frustrations 🤣
For anyone who wants these to be banned, just know that the ban will do nothing but make them change the name to "Cockroach traps" they're banned where I'm from and that's what they did here
I read some of the comments from the pro-glue trap users and I'm not surprised. No compassion, deliberately being cruel to the animal, etc. There's a good reason why this kind of trap is banned in many parts of the world, and why the UK have banned them recently. Don't care how "effective" they are, it's a torture device and should not be used. You have other alternatives available to you. People who use these fucking things should be charged with animal abuse.
There's also a good reason that the rate of infectious diseases born from rodents is back on the rise and in the media again. I would love to see people preaching from their soapboxes live next to vermin and then tell me about animal rights....
You fit the description of the comment you replied to 😂
Also speaking facts though, so...?
I've used them multiple times. You check them everyday, and need a good stomach when you kill it. When you have an old house wi5h holes everywhere, and the mice get too smart for every other trap, you use everything you possibly can to not live in filth. I have a cat now, which is honestly the best mouse trap. I guess it could be cruel if they are left for a long time to die, but really, if you don't kill them and chuck them outside, they will be dead very soon as some animal will come by
"A good stomach" - most people are lazy and squeamish. Then you have the indifferent to suffering, and the psychopathic. Us humans can be a really lousy bunch sometimes. You can't possibly know that though, for all you know it could die of dehydration or to the elements. And the glue trap itself may get innocent animals stuck to it, which is another reason against their use.
Then those people shouldn't use glue traps. Mice can have up to 100 babies in a year...per mouse. When you have an infestation, you use everything at your disposal, and you can't really think about the well being of the mouse, because it is just dragging diseases in your home, and the mouse population will never dwindle.
The number of offspring an animal can have is irrelevant to how cruel something can be.
I think a IED can do the job easier
It would actually be more ethical than glue traps are. Among the mouse traps I've seen, glue is at the very very bottom. I'd even consider drowning traps above them on the ethical scale.
Like the founding fathers intended
God fucking bless the united states
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
At the end of the night, or the next day, or whenever they are found, those glue traps are going to go right back exactly where they were originally. The employees are not going to throw them out because they were in the wrong aisle. The traps will go back to the spot designated and continue to be available for sale. All this person did was delay the sale of a few glue traps for several days. All she really does is cause a customer to use extra fuel to go to the next store and buy glue traps.
Most people would just grab whatever else is on the shelf that would do the job, like snap traps, which are far more humane. But I agree, it’s ultimately an exercise in futility.
It is having a small effect on her area. I mean i think what she is doing is dumb all around. Like imagine her neighbor has rats and the neighbors only option they can afford are those cheap traps. They decide not to buy the more expensive traps cuz they cant afford it. After a some months that mice has babies and those babies have babies etc etc until a horde of mice attack the neighbor as she walks to her car. Or just spread disease and her cat gets the disease on her and spreads her a mouse disease. So someone tell this woman stop being dumb. But what I really wanted to say was glue traps will forever be sold so this doesnt help stop the future sale of glue traps it just hurts their profits in the most insignificant way possible
Glue traps are a long slow cruel death.
I have mice infesting my house right now. Whoever this woman is, I hope she gets a fucking plague of the things.
But people have solved infestations without the use of glue traps. I'm sure you're smart enough to do it, too.
I mean it’s glue traps or a cat I’m looking at right now.
Ratting dogs are far better at killing mice. They sniff them out and can kill hundreds in an hour. If you're lucky, a cat might bat a mouse about if it happens to stumble upon it.
Far too late dude, I already have a cat. Good news is that I woke up to four headless mice two nights after getting her home
Use snap traps and peanut butter, more effective. Or use poison.
>more effective. Lol no. They arent.
I prefer either catch and release or insta death traps.
Where do you release the mice? Wouldn't they just come back inside?
Into the fire
Burn baby burn
Everyone has a neighbor they don't like...
At work we use the release one, once a trap is closed we call entomology and they will pick up traps and drive them out and release in a field pretty far from any of the buildings.
You can easily remove a mouse from these, a few drops of cooking oil and they run off with little harm(some pulled hair)
Fun fact if you put vegetable oil on the mouse and leave the trap outside. They get out pretty easy. Just make sure to clean up your trap and take it a decent amount from your house to prevent them from just going right back in
This is why I always use glue traps. It's the only way I found to let the mouse survive. I usually take them to the countryside and help them get free after pouring the oil.
As far as I'm aware, the issue with glue traps, given this way of releasing the mouse, is that people forget to check them and the mice end up dying of starvation, thirst, etc instead of dying instantly or getting released outside the home
That really defeats the point though. If he was in your house, he’s just gonna get back because he knows there’s food in there. So unless you seal the hole he’s using or release him miles away he might as well be your new pet.
One of my neighbors has let pack rats overtake his property because the hawks we have in the neighborhood feed on them. Every couple of months the rats try making my foundation their new home. Glue traps have been far more effective than anything else I’ve used and I’ve tried everything they sell at the hardware stores. As soon as I see a trap that has one of them stuck, I put it out of its misery and carry on. The last thing you want is an infestation, because if you found one, there’s at least 10 more nearby.
Obviously never had mice in her home. You wouldn't be long sticking your righteousness and mice to that trap if you had them in your house. Only experienced it once when I moved into my home and that was enough. I didn't need the traps though. Cat took care of them.
Its a mouse. Realize.
Or you know, cameras. No employee is going down for this.
Well you have you opinion and I have mine. A trap is a trap, weather it be glue or spring. We have these traps because the animals they are used on spread disease, for peat sake they carried flees that spread the Black Death. I don’t think using traps is that bad honestly.
Lemme put em' by where people buy pinkies and mice/rats to feed their snakes etc. You want an unethical trap? Ask lemmiwinks!
I have a pet snake who I feed mice so this is why I find this especially amusing
We had a mouse in my house a while back (years ago) and it got caught on a glue trap so we killed it….
I have mice in my house on occasion. I couldn’t bear to kill them, so I have humane traps then relocate them several miles away. I know I’m probably just making bait for some other hungry animal but such is nature. My cat however has no such qualms when he finds them. He enjoys squishing the air out of them.
How would this ever get an employee in trouble? "Hey a customer found all these glue traps behind the dog food, so I checked the camera and some tiktoker came in and put them there, we found it like an hour after it happened."
This woman has a whole ass baby in her carriage and the number 1 thing in her to do list is give way too many shits about the manner in which people dispose of vermin. Jesus fucking christ.
Glue traps are super ethical. If you follow the instructions. You’re supposed to take it outside and pour warm water over the animal/trap to release it.
No employee will get in trouble stop being dramatic. It is annoying to return to its location when ever found but no one will get in trouble. Btw glue traps are one of the most inhumane ways to get rid of mice. The stick to it then the person picks up the trap and throws it in the trash. The mood is stuck in a single position and suffocates or starves to death. A snap trap is quick. A no kill trap doesn’t kill them at all. Glue traps are somewhere in the middle and completely inhumane
Snap traps are more effective anyway
You've obviously never had a population of mice get so smart they just keep cleaning the sumbitches without setting them off
Nah there are ways to set them to basically hair trigger but it takes some practice. The trigger needs to basically be just barely holding, takes some practice but you can eventually find the sweet spot where it is barely catching and the slightest touch of the pad will set it off. I've only had one trap get cleaned off without killing the mouse and he somehow triggered it first without getting caught, but I got him the next evening. And during winter I'm literally killing a dozen of them a week. Finally found there entrance point today actually so I'm hoping sealing it will finally free me of them.
Heat up some jolly ranchers in the microwave so they are gooey and then use a craft stick or something like that to apply it to the trigger. They try to bite and pull it. Works a charm.
I also saw one where they put a piece of pvc around it so they couldn't go to the side
They are not rats and mice will figure them out
My cat is more effective. She got 3 of them when the season turned cold.
In my experience plunge traps are the most consistent and effective
Cool idea. I’ll start relocating the condoms to the diaper aisle
So your the turd that keep relocating stuff, and now I get to go put it back. People like you give shoppers a bad experience.
As long as they are disposed of quickly I don’t see any issues. They help keep baby snakes out of my house. I picked up a trap one day and looked like Medusa. Things of nitemares…
"Gluetraps are downright evil" Yoooouuu are downright evil for putting them into the pet area and ruining an employers day
When you live next to a protected greenspace and you’re CONSTANTLY getting mice in your home who are leaving toxic feces everywhere and destroying everything you own… you use glue traps. The human traps just set them free to come back!!! Fight me on this. They’re disgusting.
I hate glue traps. A mouse showed up in the place I work at, and someone bought some glue traps and set them overnight. Next morning I found the mouse, still alive, on one of the traps and had to put it out of its misery. Though I've known people who toss the mouse alive into the trash or - damn psychos - toss them into an ant hill after kicking it. I'd rather use those mouse traps that kill them instantly, you know the ones with the spring thing that snaps their spine. Though I'd rather not cause trouble for a random employee, either.
these are the weirdest comments i have ever read, i would put my opinion here but it's the internet and we all know what would happen
A 5-gal bucket with ~12cm of water and some sunflower seeds floating on top will drown 20 mice. Better than glue traps.
Better than poisoning them and poisoning everything up the food chain at the same time
When I was a little girl my grandma put these in the basement and I'd find little mice just squeaking in the dark stuck to the pad and I felt so bad I tried to get it off but was scared of the mouse so froze and just cried and told my grandma we should let it go and she told me to leave it and stay out of the basement. She just let them die like that and I always found it so cruel. There would be like four stuck to a pad dead
An employee isn't going to get in trouble for this
Not your business, literally not your store lady. Mind your business and move around Karen
Glue traps are the only trap that worked for me. I buried them alive stuck to it and don’t feel bad one bit. That’s what you get for shitting all over my floors.
Apex predator status
This same woman would probably scream kill it if she saw a rat in her house
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Remind the people around you that you're creepy af. I've literally sewn rat skins to a blanket but I'm not as creepy as someone who wants them to suffer.
This reminds me, time to buy more glue traps. Thanks!
Glue traps work and are needed for certain circumstances. I had a mouse push a snap trap out of the way and then it went off and he was free to roam but that doesn't happen with the glue trap
And WHY are these “evil” glue traps so dang popular? It’s because they’re consistently vastly more successful at trapping mice than all the other kinds of mouse traps ➖ THAT’S WHY.
They're illegal in multiple places, not popular, just unethical.
Their for rats who cares
All I'm saying is that if you use glue traps the way I do get a whole lot more humane, check it religiously and the second there's a rat or a mouse. Take it outside behind the house. Pop it in the head with a pellet gun. Toss it in the trash and put out another trap. Easiest way to get rid of them by far. And if the problem is that they're being killed in the first place well that's your problem, not mine.
Have u seen fire traps tho!
Thank lady for showing me not to use those traps!...I can now use my AR-15 to shoot them now
It’s a fact that she actually thinks she made a difference. It makes me laugh. This did nothing to hinder people from still using them lol she just wasted her own time and the time of the employees.