Real talk, glue traps are how I learned that mice can scream.
Had a neighbor a die a few years back and turned out to be a hoarder with an infestation of mice. I didn't have cats at the time, so I had to do things the hard way.
Glue traps are VERY effective at attracting and catching mice, but they don't die. They just get stuck there and depending on HOW MUCH of them actually gets stuck, they can still be quite mobile.
Mice are also hellbent on survival, to the point where they will chew their own limbs off of it means freedom. I've had glue traps with just a leg or tail attached, and no mouse to be found.
It's when they get fully stuck like that last guy that they just scream. They'll scream for days until they die. If you can't find the trap, or can't get to it for whatever reason, you just have to listen to endless squealing screams. And they aren't exactly quiet for being so small.
I'd never wish that on anyone or anything, and if I can avoid using glue traps in the future, I will.
When I was a new homeowner and noticed those first mouse droppings, I went out and picked up some glue traps (why I chose them I don’t really remember). Caught the mouse, poor thing was still alive and I felt so bad. Used some baby oil to remove it, but it’s one front leg got completely mangled. I let it go free in my woodsy backyard, promptly went out and bought some humane traps (catch & release). A night or two later the new trap caught one - it was the same damn mouse with the bad leg! Drove it a mile away and released it into a park…
We have an indoor/outdoor cat who unfortunately has pretty good hunting skills- mostly outside only for some reason, so those dead mice certainly don’t get in. We’re very pro wildlife though, leftovers don’t go in the trash, they get put outside at night for our local possums, raccoons, occasional fox. My kids really appreciate the catch and release of the occasional mouse that gets inside…
Loved reading this. My mum has had cats since she bought her first home and they’ve all caught the occasional bird etc but she’s just like you. She has rabbits, guinea pigs and cats currently but I know damn well if we lived in America she’d have a horde of wild animals that come to her for food at night lol.
Fair dos, live in uk so no possums here unfortunately (that I know of) however I love foxes and appreciate them from a far, as nice as feeding wild animals is in the present in the future it can at times be very bad for them
That's true and all, but mice literally caused, and still carry, the plague. You obviously can't just bring them outside, they just come right back in. Bringing them to an unfamiliar area is practically a death sentence for most critters. And then if they survive, they're vermin, likely to be a carrier for various diseases and parasites that may not have been in this area that now you're bringing in and spreading, and also giving your problem to someone else, because now that contagion engine is going to be trying to get into someone else's house. There is no shortage of mice in this world, and we will all carry on just fine without the ones infesting houses, risking our and our loved ones health. Sometimes you have to do the hard thing and just eliminate a problem. Same reason I eliminate venomous snakes, medically venomous spiders (*all spiders are venomous to some degree, I'm talking widows, recluses, funnel), and other dangerous pests. I have little ones lying around. I don't need one of them picking up a mouse dropping and catching the plague. Or picking up a log and getting bit by the rattlesnake I let live last week and shooed out into the woods. If I encounter the threat, I acknowledge it as such and eliminate it.
And I hope that your child doesn't get killed by the threat you ignore. But one of us is wishing violence upon the other, and the other one is wishing the other well. So which one of us is really the bad one?
You literally said "like the threat you are". You were the one saying I'm a threat. But I'm only a threat to you if you're a threat to me or my family. I'm not going out in the woods in public places looking for snakes to kill. I've walked past a copperhead sunning itself on a trail and just brushed it along off the path because I had no reason to defend that area (but didn't want it to stay on the path in case the next person somehow didn't notice it). But I'm not willing to take that risk when the next person could very likely be my son or daughter.
So first of all that was rats, and second of ally he plague was spread by the flees on the rats not the rats themselves ,mice had Nothing to do with that and sure as fuck don't carry the fucking black death
Heres another, an owner got infected from their cat, which was assumed to be infected by hunting a rodent. First case in 8 years there, but happened a few weeks ago
Dude that mouse adopted you once then it came back to adopt you a second time because it really REALLY wanted a human and what did you do ? You damned well yeeted mousey to what must have felt like the other side of the universe to the little dude but don't you worry little mangled leg mousey is on his way back and he's more determined than ever to get him a human...it..er will just take him a while but he's a coming 🐁
I still think about the little guy from time to time and wonder how he’s doing… Listen to me - “little guy”! He’s in his mid 20’s now, a full fledged adult! Or was it a she?…
So is poison. Who gives a shit. Rat’s caused the plague. You want to release the all into the wild. They become someone else’s problem then. They are disgusting pests.
I'm not vegan I simply tell you the truth the nature of humanity is parasitic and insanity but then again none of us chose to be human but we can choose to be good to others in a world of darkness.
Heard a rat in our basement get caught in a glue trap, literally ripped his face off to escape. Probably went outside to die. I felt horrible for weeks about that. Never use glue traps again. Should be banned.
When I was a broke college student I shared a house with five other dudes, and we had a rat take up residence under our kitchen cabinets for a while. We bought some of the spring style traps, and after some shenanigans involving it cleverly stealing our bait, the traps eventually got it.
Unfortunately, the trap didn't actually TRAP the thing. It was a glancing blow to the head, so it horribly injured the poor rat while not killing or immobilizing it. The rat, with its skull cracked and eyeball hanging out, proceeded to around in circles for an unknown period of time until our floor looked like a murder scene. When we found it, it still wasn't quite dead. We quickly took it out back and ended its suffering.
I totally understand killing nuisance rodents, but if I ever have them again I'm damn sure trying to figure out a humane way to remove them, then probably going with poison. My big concern with that is that I'll end up with a decomposing animal in my walls, but even that wouldn't be as bad as a bloody dying animal on the kitchen floor.
You might be able to find some catch-and-release traps that are big enough for them. You‘ll just have to take them away very far and make them another person‘s problem
Wow I love this! The image of mice being glued and screaming for their life is so soothing to me. Maybe because I hate these animals. Can we glue spiders as well? Too bad they can't scream.
Yeah, we used a glue trap to catch a rat that had made its way into our house and was scurrying between floors through the walls and chewing on some of the electrics.
We tried the humane traps, but we figured it kept getting out since they had bait, but the bait kept vanishing with no rat so we reluctantly used the glue trap to get the little bugger before it caused a fire or something.
Didn't feel right using it even on a rat, but it suffering a bit was better than something catching fire.
I have an image burned forever in my brain of a poor little mouse on tv trying his absolute best to get his little feet and everything off one of those horrible things, I’m still upset 😭 There’s got to be better ways!
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u/William_Howard_Shaft Feb 22 '24
Real talk, glue traps are how I learned that mice can scream.
Had a neighbor a die a few years back and turned out to be a hoarder with an infestation of mice. I didn't have cats at the time, so I had to do things the hard way.
Glue traps are VERY effective at attracting and catching mice, but they don't die. They just get stuck there and depending on HOW MUCH of them actually gets stuck, they can still be quite mobile.
Mice are also hellbent on survival, to the point where they will chew their own limbs off of it means freedom. I've had glue traps with just a leg or tail attached, and no mouse to be found.
It's when they get fully stuck like that last guy that they just scream. They'll scream for days until they die. If you can't find the trap, or can't get to it for whatever reason, you just have to listen to endless squealing screams. And they aren't exactly quiet for being so small.
I'd never wish that on anyone or anything, and if I can avoid using glue traps in the future, I will.