I feed a wild cat and he takes care of the mouse problem that I didn't know I had... He usually decapitates them.
Solve mouse problem with flea problem. Nice
Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them
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Re: Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them
#22Who leaves a mouse on a glue trap until it dies? That's messed up! I can hear when a mouse is on those things and at that point I carry the frightened mouse outside, pour a cap full of vegetable oil around it's feet and it frees itself, running off into the yard, then the trap goes in the trash. Heinously cruel? Only if you're a lazy shit.
First off, they are sold to glue a mouse, then toss the whole thing, mouse and all. They don't market it as a catch-and-release.
And because they don't only get stuck by their feet, like their face, for example. If you're only planning on catch-and-release, then use a trap made for that. How silly do you have to be to glue them to a piece of paper, just to intend to un-glue them later?? That alone is cruel.
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#23> 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 pret…
>I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps
I have relatives living in the country. They get a lot of mice and went through a lot of these factory produced traps; nothing worked. Then they bought a couple of pretty simple traps made by local school kids in shop class. I believe the head count of each trap is now in the hundreds.
It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest.
Maybe you could find (or make) something like that?
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#24Glue traps have always been more useful to catch bugs. Just put one out at night and next morning it will be really gross I wonder how the author will respond to insect humaneness vs for mammals. Is she a mammalist??
100 flies = 1 mouse. However, mosquitos have absolutely no value and can be exterminated to extinction. We could even make it a holiday.
You realize alot of animals eat mosquitoes right? They are part of the food chain
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#25I feed a wild cat and he takes care of the mouse problem that I didn't know I had... He usually decapitates them.
Our local ASPCA has a 'working cats' program where they place barn cats at peoples farms and businesses; they are outside cats, you just have to give them a place to sleep, and make sure they're ok.
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#26Not the kind of link I’d expect on hacker news. I’ve used glue traps once, wouldn’t use it again after seeing what happened to the mouse. I went back to the old school spring traps, which are also cheap.
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.
I lived in a very old house growing up and we always had lots of mice. I found the spring traps were either all or nothing. You either had a whole mouse or they somehow set it off without leaving behind a trace (except they often return to get the peanut butter off the unset trap).
Re: Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them
#27Who leaves a mouse on a glue trap until it dies? That's messed up! I can hear when a mouse is on those things and at that point I carry the frightened mouse outside, pour a cap full of vegetable oil around it's feet and it frees itself, running off into the yard, then the trap goes in the trash. Heinously cruel? Only if you're a lazy shit.
Oh my god I wish I had known you could do that, [warning, don't read if you don't want to hear a horrible story about a mouse] I put down a glue trap to get what I thought were cockroaches but came to find a mouse stuck in it. Horrified, I tried to get it loose with a stick, but the glue was so strong I accidentally broke its legs, the poor thing kept trying to pull them free... I immediately removed all the glue traps and got live catch traps, and caught something like 6 mice before I gave in and notified the landlord. They used poison, then sealed up possible entry points. I wish there was some way to tell the mice it's not safe to be in people's homes, I don't want them to suffer
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#28They should also ban cats while they are on this. Being eaten alive sounds way more cruel than getting stuck and starving to death! /s
I know you put /s, but I just want to say that if I were a mouse I would much prefer being eaten alive.
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#29Search 'mousetrap mondays' for a great yter who demonstrates many more humane traps.
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#30the advantage of a glue trap is that the meat is still fresh...i never let a death go to waste...never