I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps. They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the internal "walk-way".
It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals humanely!!
Certainly: Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the complete issue?
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:28 +0100 someone who may be judith wrote this:-
It is not humane to leave them stuck to the trap for hours/days.
But do their legs get pulled off if you try and remove them?
How is it humane to stick them to anything for any time at all? I am surprised they can be imported. I dare say someone should alert the RSPCA. What sort of c*ut would stock them?
Put them in a hospice, and let them die in peace.
Take them to Guantanamo bay instead!
Or lock them up without charge for 28 days.
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Sure. Poison them and let them die in agony instead.
Good grief. A mouse has little imagination really..and probably zero sense of time.
It will try pulling itself free, till it gets tired out, then lie there waiting for whatever comes next.
SPLAT!
Any of those!
Better than having them walking around!
A 'snap' trap is better cos it stands a better chance of killing the beggars straight away!
Gently remove the mouse from the glue and give it to your cat.
Adam
If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.
Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.
NT
They're house mice, SFAIK they don't live outside. They'll just head for the nearest house, to resume their function of leaving a trail of urine and droppings across every surface where food has been handled. Or they'll be intercepted by a cat on the way.
There's no bunny hugger route to dealing with them, releasing them just passes your problem, and the problems caused by the myriad offspring produced in their short lives, on to many other. Bite the bullet and just kill them.
Why would a cat want glue?
Mary
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and your advice for rats?
To sniff it.
Adam
Let the airgun have a shot.
Adam
No, not at all, at all.
They pull them off themselves.
And unfortunately I am not joking.
In his greengrocers shop my uncle used to use some gook called Dak which he spread on a piece of cardborad box and left on the floor in rat runs.
Usually in the morning all was left was one or more sets of four feet glued to the cardboard. 8-((
DG
Or rather let the shotgun an airing. :-)
.DG
Actually it costs great deal in terms of traps and your time, and actually ACHIEVES nothing, since they will come straight back in, unless your drive them far enough away (which costs more) and then their NEIGHBOURS will move in.
As long as you trap and kill faster than they arrive, you will remain mouse free.
AK47.
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