![]() To kill an animal that you want to get rid of, you will need to risk additional injuries to the animal and new injuries to yourself by repositioning the animal and killing them with a swift blow to the head. I know that I couldn’t kill an animal with a blow to the head, and I wouldn’t want to inflict pain to free an animal from a trap that could have been avoided. What the packaging doesn’t tell you when you buy a glue trap or glue boards from the local stores is that when an animal becomes stuck in the trap, it’s up to you to either free the animal or kill it humanely. Glue traps are not a long-term solution that offers an effective approach to removing rodents from your home. There are other ways to catch and release rodents. Rodents are highly intelligent animals who feel pain when stuck in a trap. ![]() No matter how you feel about rodents, I believe we should treat them kindly. When you live trap rodents and release them back into nature, you leave the food chain undisturbed as hawks, owls, and cats can continue preying on these animals that are their main source of food. Rodents are part of the food chain, and while we have a deep ambivalence toward these animals since they can carry diseases, they are useful in nature. Without addressing the reason why you have a rodent problem, you will continue attracting new rodents, even after these traps have “caught” the rodents you currently have.Ī far more effective approach to rodent control is to close up access points to your home, remove any food sources that may lure these animals to your home, and then catch the remaining population in humane live traps. Not only do these traps catch more unintended animals than the target mouse population, but these traps also become costly to purchase as the glue only remains tacky for a limited time. Once this information came to light, and because the apartment building’s residents wrote strong letters to the management, the glue traps were thankfully removed, and live traps were instead used to trap the rodent populations in a more humane way. Simply throwing a glue trap in the trash or drowning the animals caught in the trap are unacceptable solutions, and you could face criminal charges. If you use a glue trap, it’s your legal responsibility to either release the animal or effect a swift and humane death. The chances that these animals will survive without help are unlikely. Larger animals, like birds and snakes, become trapped when they try to catch the insects caught on the glue boards, and even frogs can become stuck. These sticky boards coated with adhesive will attach to any animal and even children, causing immense suffering and pain.įar from offering a quick death, these traps, which are so easily bought at hardware stores and online shops, lead to immense suffering and trauma to both the trapped animal and the person who finds them. The traps around their building caught more animals that were not the intended “prey” of rats or mice. My sister found a starling in the glue trap that had been installed on her windowsill, and her neighbor found several geckos. What about animals that manage to free themselves? If the animal pulls free from the glue boards, it may suffer broken bones, bleeding from deep lacerations, or bitten through a limb to free itself. Suffocation is eventually the reason for death, but this is a slow and painful death. ![]() The trapped animals often cry for help and suffer stress, but humans are too squeamish to humanely euthanize the trapped animal, which often means the animal will suffer a prolonged death or be thrown in the trash while still alive. It can take anything from a few hours to several days for trapped animals to finally die from exhaustion, pain, starvation, dehydration, or trauma. Worse still, when left in the trap, these animals stuck in the trays coated with sticky adhesive suffer a slow death. The pain and suffering caused to the trapped animals are unimaginable. Once the animal stuck in the glue board can’t get free, it may chew through its own limbs, break bones, or suffer further injuries such as glue burns and ripping off its own skin. ![]() The extremely sticky adhesive used for glue boards causes long-term suffering and pain to the trapped animals, many of whom use self-mutilation to free themselves from the glue boards. Glue boards aren’t an effective way to control rodent populations, as rodents breed more when their numbers are reduced. While glue traps are popular for rodent control, these traps are as cruel as snap traps, and often, other animals are caught in the sticky adhesive of the glue board.
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