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Glue traps are horrible by design. Just reading the label made me nauseous. But given the mission there's no good outcome for the mice. Even if you catch-and-release (in a far off field away from homes), mice are prolific and there's now probably a bunch of starving baby mice somewhere.
It's not like people use those to deliberately kill some endangered creatures (if yes, ban those people, not my glue trap). And by the way, banning them would also stupid because glue traps easily be made at home (I assume).
Invest in, or develop a better and cheaper way and let me know when you're ready.
We also need a laser-based mosquito killer device, those UV traps are crap. A while ago there were some cool demos on the Internet but I haven't seen any shipping products...
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You realize alot of animals eat mosquitoes right? They are part of the food chain
Yes, but the mosquitos will be replaced in their environment by other bugs that are equally tasty and don’t also kill humans in such massive numbers.
> However, mosquitos have absolutely no value and can be exterminated to extinction.
Who 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 tra…
After the rat was caught, I had read about how they slowly suffocate over days, often chewing off their own limbs in a largely futile attempt to escape.
I ended up bludgeoning the rat. I still remember the high pitched scream it made upon receiving the first blow. It only lasted about a minute but it was a pretty fucked up experience, and that was going the merciful route.
Glue 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??
They should also ban cats while they are on this. Being eaten alive sounds way more cruel than getting stuck and starving to death! /s
Who 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 tra…