Glue traps - your thoughts?

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Jeraden
About a month or 2 ago I realized I had a mouse problem in the basement. I thought it was just a single mouse that I could hear scurrying around in the ceiling tiles. So I went to target and got some of those snap traps.

I had limited success, I realized I had a lot more than just one mouse. I had about a 25% success rate using the snap traps. A lot of times they'd eat the peanut butter, but somehow never actuall trigger the trap. I kept trying to set it "just right" so the littlest pressure would set it off (and snapped my fingers a couple times in the process), but when I go back to check the next day, PB was gone and it was never triggered. Also a few times it would be snapped, but no mouse was in it. So I was getting frustrated.

I ended up getting this one from amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Victor-M...&qid=1231943444&sr=8-1

It seems to work really well. I have not yet had a case where the bait was taken without a dead mouse being inside. I can't vouch for its humane-ness, but it does seem to kill the mice fairly quickly. Surprised just two AA batteries has enough juice to fry a mouse, but apparently it does! Just open it up, dump the dead mouse out, turn it off, wipe the metal plates off of any PB/gunk, and reset it. I caught several more mice with this one, and now I'm mouse free!

LOL! Awesome.

I wonder what kinda volts/amps it puts out to kill the mouse.

Does it smell like fried mouse when you open it up? lol....

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm automatic cat food generator. That will also probably attrack some poor starving squirrel, that will then nibble on the mouse then get in the trap, then a dog will get attracted, and the cycle continues. The electric food chain, extra crispy, not fried, zapped!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAiCdSX6bw (Sparrow in glue traps)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxN5CeDd1wg (rat struggling on glue trap)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BiWVVARts (mouse on glue trap)

Damn that's fucked up...

The birds were not trapped accidentally. The traps were placed there for them...

I'd be pretty pissed if I saw that. I've always liked it when I saw birds in a store for some reason, although I will concede it would suck to be shit on. lol

 

[sportage]

We had a mouse somehow make a hole from the outside to inside behind the water heater. It was almost impossible to plug up the hole. The mouse problem got really bad in the laundry room. We got some traps and what I did after a mouse was caught, was take the mouse/trap outside far to the end of the yard, poor some cooking oil over the trap glue where the mouse was stuck, and that cooking oil loosens the mouse from the glue. The mouse wiggled off the trap and ran away, all lubed up.
Never had a mouse so damaged that it could not work itself free off the oiled trap and run like hell into the grass. Little damage to the mouse.
Finally had the water heater disconnected, removed, and fixed the hole.
What a nightmare...

The instructions say that cooking oil will break down the glue so the animal can escape.
But sometimes we also caught some really huge spiders in the traps. They were not treated so humanely.

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: HenryC

Originally posted by: alchemize
Sometimes as an added treat it only nabs them by the tail or the leg and I get to feed them live to my killer cats (of which I think one was recently lost to coyotes).

Wow. Perhaps someone should throw one of your cats to a hungry lion then? What a shitty thing to do. Just kill it.

I encountered this dilemma years ago. My cat had been staring endlessly at the refrigerator door for several days and as I didn't keep her food in there, I wondered if she'd lost her mind. Eventually, I decided to investigate. I'm a wheelchair user but managed to pull the refrigerator out of its niche (it's on wheels). In the corner of the niche was a small terrified mouse trying to defend itself by remaining motionless.

What do I do now? I can't catch it - the mouse will eventually run - and I have no means of trapping it. I called my cat. Silly gregarious cat - she came in from outside all happy to see me yet oblivious to the mouse three feet from her. Reaching over, I turned her head towards the mouse. Instant predator mode; the mouse never had a chance. I looked my cat in the eyes and pointed at the back door. Mouse in her jaws, she trotted out the door and proceeded to torture it in my backyard for the next several hours.

I felt sorry for that mouse.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: akshatp
GLue traps suck.. Sometimes the rodent will get only one leg stuck in it and subsequently run somewhere with the trap stuck to itself and then die... only you dont know where it is and the dead carcass will then proceed to stink...

Oh yea, its pretty inhumane too. Get the snap traps, much better and less pain for the "victim"

Mice are not humans, so no need to be humane. Kill it or catch it however you can and forget about it's "feelings". Glue trap, then toss in the garbage can.

 

[mxyzptlk]

I agree, glue traps are cruel. I had to drown half a dozen rats that were all caught on glue traps day. I tried crushing their little rat heads with pliers, but I could only manage to do one before I realized that I was not as desensitized as I thought.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: akshatp
GLue traps suck.. Sometimes the rodent will get only one leg stuck in it and subsequently run somewhere with the trap stuck to itself and then die... only you dont know where it is and the dead carcass will then proceed to stink...

Oh yea, its pretty inhumane too. Get the snap traps, much better and less pain for the "victim"

Mice are not humans, so no need to be humane. Kill it or catch it however you can and forget about it's "feelings". Glue trap, then toss in the garbage can.

They still feel pain and have self awareness, you can't be that selfish. They are actually closer to us then we think, they're just smaller. They are mammals just like we are.

Would you let a baby die in a dumpster?

 

[NoShangriLa]

Best trap so far, much better than snap trap that sometime wounded the animal allow it to go and die in hiding place.

 

[Gibson486]

I used one to kill a few mice when i lived in boston. Right before my last day in the apartment, I was cleaning up and moved a box. Found 3 mice stuck to a trap. Look like they tried to get each other out. Kind of disturbing, actually....

 

[HenryC]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Mice are not humans, so no need to be humane. Kill it or catch it however you can and forget about it's "feelings". Glue trap, then toss in the garbage can.

Do you even know what the word "humane" is? I don't think you do.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: akshatp
GLue traps suck.. Sometimes the rodent will get only one leg stuck in it and subsequently run somewhere with the trap stuck to itself and then die... only you dont know where it is and the dead carcass will then proceed to stink...

Oh yea, its pretty inhumane too. Get the snap traps, much better and less pain for the "victim"

Mice are not humans, so no need to be humane. Kill it or catch it however you can and forget about it's "feelings". Glue trap, then toss in the garbage can.

They still feel pain and have self awareness, you can't be that selfish. They are actually closer to us then we think, they're just smaller. They are mammals just like we are.

Would you let a baby die in a dumpster?

Yes, because a rat is a baby. Grasping for straws aren't we.

 

[olds]

NewPhone?
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2257640

 

[olds]

The traps are inhumane but I still use them. I just take the mouse and trap outside, douse them with lighter fluid and set it on fire.

 

[HenryC]

Originally posted by: OulOat
Yes, because a rat is a baby. Grasping for straws aren't we.

I agree with his first point though.

 

[HenryC]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
The traps are inhumane but I still use them. I just take the mouse and trap outside, douse them with lighter fluid and set it on fire.

May your house burn down, and all your possessions destroyed, like what happened to this guy.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: HenryC

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
The traps are inhumane but I still use them. I just take the mouse and trap outside, douse them with lighter fluid and set it on fire.

May your house burn down, and all your possessions destroyed, like what happened to this guy.

A bit harsh to wish on even oldsmoboat for not giving a shit about mice. I think mice suck and the glue traps suck harder, personally I'd be a fan of those electric chairs for mice if I had a mouse problem. Not going to go wishing DIAF on anyone who chooses to use glue traps though :roll:

 

[HenryC]

A bit harsh to wish on even oldsmoboat for not giving a shit about mice. I think mice suck and the glue traps suck harder, personally I'd be a fan of those electric chairs for mice if I had a mouse problem. Not going to go wishing DIAF on anyone who chooses to use glue traps though :roll:

Hey, if someone throws a live mouse into a fire, they deserve what they get.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: HenryC

A bit harsh to wish on even oldsmoboat for not giving a shit about mice. I think mice suck and the glue traps suck harder, personally I'd be a fan of those electric chairs for mice if I had a mouse problem. Not going to go wishing DIAF on anyone who chooses to use glue traps though :roll:

Hey, if someone throws a live mouse into a fire, they deserve what they get.

Awww, a noob who takes everything he reads on the internet seriously.

psst...olds doesn't really set mice on fire.

 

[HenryC]

Awww, a noob who takes everything he reads on the internet seriously.

psst...olds doesn't really set mice on fire.

Awww, someone who supposedly knows what the internet is all about misunderstood me.

I wasn't referring to him, I was referring to the man in the article. Hell, my first reply to him wasn't even serious.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: HenryC

A bit harsh to wish on even oldsmoboat for not giving a shit about mice. I think mice suck and the glue traps suck harder, personally I'd be a fan of those electric chairs for mice if I had a mouse problem. Not going to go wishing DIAF on anyone who chooses to use glue traps though :roll:

Hey, if someone throws a live mouse into a fire, they deserve what they get.

He deserves bbq'd mice?

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: HenryC

Originally posted by: alchemize
Sometimes as an added treat it only nabs them by the tail or the leg and I get to feed them live to my killer cats (of which I think one was recently lost to coyotes).

Wow. Perhaps someone should throw one of your cats to a hungry lion then? What a shitty thing to do. Just kill it.

Why did you edit out :music: The Circle of Life :music: ??

I prefer the cats do my dirty work. They prefer warm meat. Win/win.

I suppose if I had a lion and nothing else to feed it but a cat, then I'd feed it a cat, since I don't know where you live

edit: oh and who are you to question me, mouse-torturer? You've already committed the crime, and you lecture me?

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: akshatp
GLue traps suck.. Sometimes the rodent will get only one leg stuck in it and subsequently run somewhere with the trap stuck to itself and then die... only you dont know where it is and the dead carcass will then proceed to stink...

Oh yea, its pretty inhumane too. Get the snap traps, much better and less pain for the "victim"

Mice are not humans, so no need to be humane. Kill it or catch it however you can and forget about it's "feelings". Glue trap, then toss in the garbage can.

They still feel pain and have self awareness, you can't be that selfish. They are actually closer to us then we think, they're just smaller. They are mammals just like we are.

Would you let a baby die in a dumpster?

Would you trap a baby in a box and dumb it alive outside? Would you lure it with some food and snap its spine? You can't just sit down with the mice and negotiate for them to leave your home.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: KMFJD

Originally posted by: HenryC

A bit harsh to wish on even oldsmoboat for not giving a shit about mice. I think mice suck and the glue traps suck harder, personally I'd be a fan of those electric chairs for mice if I had a mouse problem. Not going to go wishing DIAF on anyone who chooses to use glue traps though :roll:

Hey, if someone throws a live mouse into a fire, they deserve what they get.

He deserves bbq'd mice?

They are great eating. If you wrap them in bacon first.

 

[HenryC]

I prefer the cats do my dirty work. They prefer warm meat. Win/win.

As I said, what a shitty thing to do. If they caught the mouse themselves, then fair enough, that is life and unavoidable. But you practically threw it to them, while its leg is broken in a trap, unable to escape (whereas in wild, the opportunity is there to run - or die). There was no need to do that.

oh and who are you to question me, mouse-torturer? You've already committed the crime, and you lecture me?

Of course I do. It wasn't my intention to cause it more pain and misery, unlike your very self. And hey, at least I had the decency to put it out of its misery. Can't say the same for you.