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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Glue traps are horrendous; it's kinder to use a spring-trap or a cat to keep rodents down/away.
Are they banned throughout the EEC, or just in Ireland?
These traps are truly horrific.
Cats are the best natural repellent in my experience. Mice and rats rarely enter a home where ther is a resident feline, and even if they pop in, the soon leave as soon as they get a whiff of a cat!
My aunt's apartment block was recently infested with rats. Her apartment (which she shares with her husband and 3 cats) was the only one which remained rat-free. The neighbours soon started "borrowing" her cats for a few hours, enlisting their services to repell the rodents.
On another note my father had a resident mouse family in his house for a while. He started leaving food out for them every night, and they lived happily, leaving his food alone. He didn't catch the plague either....
A few well fed cats (more likely to hunt for recreational purposes when not hungry) around the house will keep rodents at bay.
Poison kills animals in a horrific way too, slowly turning their insides to mush. I have had dogs die from rat poison in the past, and cats breaking their paws in traditional mouse traps. Neither are necessary. Rodents will always be around but if there is a cat in the house they are highly unlikely to move in.
I read your article on glue traps.
One person said that a clean house will not have mice. Really? They need shelter and water which even the cleanest of houses will have. They also are happy to eat paper which even the cleanest of houses will have. Also, very clean houses have bread in paper or plastic containers and the mice are very capable of breaking into them to get the bread.
Some people suggest cats, but if you are a mice lover, you would be horrified if you watched the long ritual of cats and their mice.
Until people have better solutions, I will use glue traps
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"Until people have better solutions, I will use glue traps"
anything is better than glue
with glue traps the animal spends days stuck. in agony with no food or water
and in a panic
anything is better than that.
hence they are illegal
By "something better" I mean something that gets the mice out of the house better.
I have used cats (which by the way if it is all about making mike happy would be the worst method), poison (which I hate to do because the poison could end up in the soil), live catch, and spring.
I have caught plenty with glue traps and the mice were doing just fine when I found them. I think your stories of torture (which the cats really do) is just something you heard. If a person wanted, they could easily release the mice from the glue traps to go on and live a happy life.
Mice in the house destroy important things including wiring and make us sick.
"If a person wanted, they could easily release the mice from the glue traps to go on and live a happy life." Most don't want to.
These traps ar illegal. In this country for something to be mad illegal s a big big deal.
They are horrific. Yes, so is the way cats "play" with mice, but that is nature. My cats don't hunt,generally. when they do, I save the animal hunted. It is very rare thankfully.
However, to trap an animal, a wild animal, with glue is, I feel, far worse than having its natural predator kill him or her. When a cat catches a mouse, the mouse does not resort to chewing off its own leg, for example.
trapman.com do a great line in humane trapa of all sizes. Mouse and rat sizes are on sale at Woodies. If you plan to release them unharmed, get a trap that won't hurt them! If you want to deterr them. get a cat. They will not come in to your home if there is a cat there.....