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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by Shikadi on Saturday June 08, 2019 @09:15AM (#20132219)
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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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by __blockcipher__ on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:06AM (#20132753)
A landlord brought glue traps once upon complaints of a rat.

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.

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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by NullPrefix on Saturday June 08, 2019 @09:09PM (#20136304)
>upon receiving the first blow?

How many times did you hit?

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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by __blockcipher__ on Saturday June 15, 2019 @10:13PM (#20193432)
A lot of times. It was dead pretty quickly but I went a bit overboard just to be sure.
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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by all2 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:21AM (#20132842)
My dad's method for getting rid of mice was one solid blow from a 2 quart sauce pan. I think I was 4 when I first saw that. It's an ugly thing to take a life, but at least it was quick.
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Re:Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from... by jwagenet on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:29AM (#20132884)
If you are looking for a more ‘humane’ method for mice and rats check out the Automatic Trap. As far as I can tell it’s near instant and doesn’t suffer from the prolonged suffering issues of glue, poison, and flip traps.

https://www.automatictrap.com/

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