Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them

> Indeed, humane methods of rodent control are readily available. Retailers included in the activists' lawsuit, including Walmart and Canadian Tire, sell humane live traps (for as low as $19.99 on Walmart.ca at time of writing). Many pest control companies also offer humane solutions.

I have had mice get in my house a few times.

I hate glue traps. I had seen them used at a restaurant I used to work at, and it is pretty awful. They get stuck and panic and nearly (sometimes actually) rip themselves apart trying to escape.

But they're the only things I've seen that work. Because of what I saw with glue traps, I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps. Some of them worked at first, but the mice quickly learned how to get the bait without setting off the trap, or they learned to set off the trap without getting caught. (No idea how - in some of these I'd have thought it'd be impossible.)

So I got some glue traps. They worked and they worked fast, and they got them all, both times this happened. You usually hear when they get caught, so I would get the trap, drown them, and dispose of it. It's pretty awful, but I'm sorry, I can't live with mice in my house.

My only real alternative is to get a cat, and trust me, having grown up with cats that ate mice and birds, they're not much more merciful.

> Winnipeg veterinarian Dr. Jonas Watson agrees with the group's position, pointing out that glue traps are also entirely indiscriminate, often trapping other animals as well.

This is a feature, not a bug. These traps are almost always placed inside, and whatever else is getting trapped is also a pest.

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I wouldn't leave the mouse to run about, causing trouble in other's yards. Just kill it swiftly.

Humans do the same to animals they don't consider pests, and don't need to be needlessly cruel to, too. Just to get/save a bit more money, which is quite a lot less defendable.

Isn't the only difference that you see what happens to the mouse? Spring traps are less effective, but that's only because we don't know how many of them die of infection after running around with half a leg missing for a few weeks.