What are your thoughts on glue traps?

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Pyro Paul

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Stryc9 said:
I tried using glue traps outside one time. I found the first one flipped over like the rat realized what it was and managed to jump off before it got too stuck to it and got away.

The only other time I put one out I caught a rat in it and it had just stood there for the better part of a day, it didn't even try to free itself. I ended up taking a .22 to it's head.

I figure that glue traps are a waste of money. When we had a rat problem, thanks to the hippie up the street that likes to release his rats at the stop sign at the end of my road, I found I was more effective picking them off with said .22 when they came out to eat. It was a quicker end for the rats...usually...and cost me less money.
exactly how large of rodents are you dealing with?

i would think a .22 would be a little over kill and start 'popping' common house mice...

ontop of this.
glue traps don't work outside.
the dust and mostiure make it less sticky and make it easier for the rodents to escape.
 

Fargus

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Pyro Paul, of course I am attacking you, after your initial comment:

as to the disposal... i personally would of thrown it in the dumpster with little though. as inhumane that may make me... the verulient death and pestilence carried in varmits is not something i take lightly.
As I already said, there is a difference between defending yourself, and wanton cruelty towards an animal. You are not defending yourself in this instance at all, you're being an inhumane jerk by being unnecessarily cruel. This is where your entire argument breaks down. So since this is not about "survival" at all, then it must be something else. Sadism? Revenge? What? It's clearly intentionally malicious.

Your persistence to defend this claim with completely idiotic "excuses" that have all been crushed really says it all. I do not care if you didn't actually do this, but you made the comment and defended such a position. Essentially, you are the kind of person who would actually throw a helpless and injured mammal stuck on glue into the garbage bin based on the comments you have made defending it.

You still have not provided any justification for letting an animal rip itself apart on an inexpensive trap when it can be humanely killed. As far as high horse goes, perfectly understandable considering the absolute tripe you've posted here, your lack of empathy/humanity and your disdain for life in general. You represent some of our poorer attributes, and even other posters have noted this as well. I'm not going to even begin to talk about your "nature is ugly" argument, in fact some one replied to this and you did not reply to it at all! What a surprise, eh?

So yeah, I'm calling you a demon of sorts because you're trying to make excuses for torturing animals to death. It is morally questionable and most certainly disgusting - and it speaks more about you as a person than it does me for pointing it out and criticising it (and you).
 

Latinidiot

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Capt. Crankypants said:
DuctTapeJedi said:
They make humane traps where it doesn't actually kill the mouse, you just let him go outside.
This

Yep, little bent plastic tube. Mouse goes in, tips the tube, lid closes, congratulations, you have catched a mousey (yay) =D
What, so it comes back in? If the pest has a way in, you could better kill them untill either they learn to stay away, or you find the mousehole and close it
 

Stryc9

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Pyro Paul said:
exactly how large of rodents are you dealing with?

i would think a .22 would be a little over kill and start 'popping' common house mice...

ontop of this.
glue traps don't work outside.
the dust and mostiure make it less sticky and make it easier for the rodents to escape.
We're talking your common garden variety rat and at distances of less than 20 feet the bullet isn't imparting anywhere close to all of it's energy in the rat's body so it doesn't make that much of a mess.

To be clear, I was actually setting the glue traps in our basement, not completely outside and like I said, it worked once and the other trap was flipped over, it was useless after that because it did get all dusty. I just don't find them very effective compared to other methods.
 

Randomologist

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I don't know how viable this is for you, but I once worked at a fabricators' yard where they kept two cats, and they would eat the rats that lived by the adjacent canal. No problems with them at all, save for when one of them started sleeping on the forklift cab.
 

Fargus

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Cats are out of the question, they don't want cats making a mess out of things and a couple of people there are allergic to cat fur.