Just killed mouse with glue trap and PETA says I'm inhumane

[postmortemIA]

First I saw small mouse it last night while brushing my teeth in bathroom. And then I had hard time sleeping wondering if it will jump into my bed and walk over my face D:

Today I got some flue traps and put them together with some cheese at the locations I saw him last night

And sure enough, I heard the noise of it trying to free itself - it got stuck in the glue. So I killed it with by crushing it with soda can - to spare it from suffering,

PETA says

Sticky glue traps cause an enormous amount of suffering and a traumatic death for the animals they catch. Humane methods of rodent control are available.

They even have idea how to 'gently' set it free... And then what? Outside is -5F, it will get back in if it survives long enough

If you encounter an animal who is stuck to a glue trap, pour a small amount of cooking oil or baby oil onto the stuck areas and gently work the animal free.

http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=127

What would you do?

 

[Ronstang]

Glue traps are inhumane, and I am not PETA fan. If you need to kill something then kill it. Making it suffer is quite pathetic.

 

[Eli]

Honestly, I think this is one area where I would actually agree with PETA.

Not that I care enough to really care, I mean.. they're mice. Face it, we discriminate against animals worse than we do people. Anyway, the method of killing from a glue trap is rather gruesome any way you look at it. You didn't "just" kill it. It died over the course of hours or days as it struggled to get free.

Edit: I suppose it would help if I read the whole OP. Well.. I suppose you did the right thing, though I think I would have found a more solid object than a soda can? LOL

 

[FoBoT]

i prefer putting out the poison

 

[postmortemIA]

I don't know how double post happened. Anyway, it did not suffer for hours, I figured out pretty much within minute that it got stuck, and I killed it then.

Poison is problem because it could hide somewhere under and rot.

 

[Mrvile]

We had a bunch of mice one time so we set several traps around the apartment and the apartment below us and caught like five. Each time we had to put the trap in a couple of plastic bags and drop a brick in it a few times. Then toss it in the trash and die a little bit inside. The walk from the hallway to the garbage bins out back was the worst, watchin the mouse twitch and squeak trying to get free.

Whatever, they got rid of the mice pretty damn quickly.

 

[El Guaraguao]

funny, i just set a glue trap like 1hr ago and caught this rat bastard thats been running around for the past few days. I got it and threw it in a 5 gallon bucket of water. needless to say, it drowned. don't care much for mice and or rats.

 

[QueBert]

regular mouse traps work better and if you get the big sized ones they kill the critter instantly. I see no benefit to glue trap. They even have newer traps that aren't hard to set and don't accidentally snap when you're trying to set them down. I don't like rats, but glue traps are shitty.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I'll never do a glue trap again. Spring traps FTW!

 

[guyver01]

who cares what PETA thinks.

do what you need, in order to protect yourself and your home.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Who the fuck cares how vermin "feel"?

For the record though, I use those mean, classic rat traps that break your fucking fingers when you screw up setting them.

 

[Zee]

i hate how the blood squirts out from the head when the spring trap kills them

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I used a spring trap once when i saw a mouse. Killed the little bastard. I need to get another one, saw another running around in the kitchen last night.

 

[Capt Caveman]

First I saw small mouse it last night while brushing my teeth in bathroom. And then I had hard time sleeping wondering if it will jump into my bed and walk over my face D:

You're a woman, right? Surprised, you didn't jump up onto a chair screaming.

Poor mouse...

 

[postmortemIA]

You're a woman, right? Surprised, you didn't jump up onto a chair screaming.

Poor mouse...

I'm a man

Mice can walk vertically.

Believe me, I know some very strong dudes not afraid of anything .. beside mice.

 

[mugs]

I think glue traps are pretty cruel, but at least you killed it so it didn't starve to death. I just use spring traps... I figure they kill the mouse pretty quickly.

Re: the temperature - animals are capable of surviving outside of a heated home... but the heated home is obviously more comfortable.

 

[randay]

brake cleaner

 

[QueBert]

I think glue traps are pretty cruel, but at least you killed it so it didn't starve to death. I just use spring traps... I figure they kill the mouse pretty quickly.

Re: the temperature - animals are capable of surviving outside of a heated home... but the heated home is obviously more comfortable.

They almost never die from stavation on a glue trap. Typically they will panic like shit, try to chew their own feet off to get away. And will either bleed to death or die from getting way too excited, causing their hearts to explode from what I've heard. I have seen a mouse gnawing at it's legs trying to get free from a glue trap.

 

[0roo0roo]

rats are disease ridden vermin
my objection to glue traps is that they require lame dispatch of animal after its been trapped for quite a while, generally unnecessary trouble for vermin and yourself. be a man, use a snap trap. quick, fast and deadly. job done.

 

[Sea Moose]

I think glue traps are pretty cruel, but at least you killed it so it didn't starve to death. I just use spring traps... I figure they kill the mouse pretty quickly.

Re: the temperature - animals are capable of surviving outside of a heated home... but the heated home is obviously more comfortable.

actually the reason i hear they are considered cruel, is cause the mice eat through their limbs to try and free themselves.... they dont go hungry...

 

[Sea Moose]

Op, you could run around your ceiling with a mallet and try and kick it on its head cartoon style.... you may need some new dry wall though....

 

[Zebo]

They are inhumane. I've killed probably over 40,000 animals and always make it quick. Whether tearing head off a winged bird or shooting a downed deer again with my .45 it should be as painless as possible for animal unless you like torture which sticky traps are - torture - plain and simple. Should only be reserved for terrorists or 24. Man up and get a spring loaded mouse trap that snaps their spine.

 

[Mani]

I'm no animal rights activist, but a good rule of thumb is if it doesn't kill it quickly, it's inhumane.

 

[Sea Moose]

You could always get a kitten and unleash kitty army!

 

[KMFJD]

It's a fucking mouse....why would you care what PETA thinks