Disposing of Rodents Caught in Sticky Traps

Radrook

Radrook

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How do you dispose of live rodents caught in sticky traps? To me that was once a major problem since I seem to have a phobic aversion towards rats and mice. Eventually I found the solution. I toss a plastic bag over them. Then I drop a, dumbbell on the area of the bag where they are. The bag sticks to the trap and makes disposal easy. Its also the humane way since dropping them into the garbage bin alive would only prolong their suffering.
 

I quit using those sticky scraps because, while I have no issue with killing rats around my home, I have no wish to inflict suffering on any creature, even vermin. And I can't imagine that it's any fun to be stuck alive to the trap for hours before I find them.

But to answer your question, I shot the stuck rats through the head with a pellet gun, then disposed of both trap and rat in the garbage.
 
You put the live trap in your car and go far from your house and let them go.i didn’t realize they were glued to the trap. The traps I used weren’t like that.
 

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raybar said:
I quit using those sticky scraps because, while I have no issue with killing rats around my home, I have no wish to inflict suffering on any creature, even vermin. And I can't imagine that it's any fun to be stuck alive to the trap for hours before I find them.

But to answer your question, I shot the stuck rats through the head with a pellet gun, then disposed of both trap and rat in the garbage.
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What’s the sense in using live trap if you’re going to kill them anyway?
 
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Radrook said:
How do you dispose of live rodents caught in sticky traps? To me that was once a major problem since I seem to have a phobic aversion towards rats and mice. Eventually I found the solution. I toss a plastic bag over them. Then I drop a, dumbbell on the area of the bag where they are. The bag sticks to the trap and makes disposal easy. Its also the humane way since dropping them into the garbage bin alive would only prolong their suffering.
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Just use a snap trap. Much easier.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
What’s the sense in using live trap if you’re going to kill then anyway?
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Well, many years ago, while living in Philadelphia, I employed poison and regular traps that are triggered when the creature goes for the bait and both methods worked just fine. However, and for some reason, those two methods don't work where I now live. The pest control person said that they are too smart to fall for the traditional baited traps. Well, they worked fine years ago in Philadelphia.

So I was forced to seek another method or else ignore the infestation. But of course the problem is getting rid of an animal that is still alive and impossible to free from that tremendously adhesive glue on that trap

The poison that the pest control agency uses has only killed one that I am aware of. I heard it screeching in agony and later found it lying dead on the kitchen floor. The rest, approx. ten, were all caught by the sticky type traps.

Please note that I do not enjoy inflicting suffering on any animal regardless of species or size even for a brief amount of time. Neither do I enjoy killing them. If indeed I could calmly trap them and release them far from the apartment complex, maybe I would.. But as I said, I have a phobia in reference to mice and rats which prohibits that approach.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
How would you like it if kind souls dropped their "humanely" captured mice off on your doorstep? Farmers aren't thrilled by this practice. Having mice is a human health hazard, they defecate and urinate constantly. Using traps/devices with "instant" death prevents excessive torture.
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That's true. They will immediately go into someone else's house or apartment or infest the surrounding terrain. .
 
Radrook said:
Well, many years ago, while living in Philadelphia, I employed poison and regular traps that are triggered when the creature goes for the bait and both methods worked just fine. However, and for some reason, those two methods don't work where I now live. The pest control person said that they are too smart to fall for the traditional baited traps. Well, they worked fine years ago in Philadelphia.

So I was forced to seek another method or else ignore the infestation. But of course the problem is getting rid of an animal that is still alive and impossible to free from that tremendously adhesive glue on that trap

The poison that the pest control agency uses has only killed one that I am aware of. I heard it screeching in agony and later found it lying dead on the kitchen floor. The rest, approx. ten, were all caught by the sticky type traps.

Please note that I do not enjoy inflicting suffering on any animal regardless of species or size even for a brief amount of time. Neither do I enjoy killing them. If indeed I could calmly trap them and release them far from the apartment complex, maybe I would.. But as I said, I have a phobia in reference to mice and rats which prohibits that approach.
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We used traps with food in them and caught a lot of mice that way. We would put the trap in the car and travel 5 or 6 miles from our house and let them go.

I hate seeing or hearing anything suffering needlessly.
 
Aunt Bea said:
How do you get the mice unstuck? 🤔

I stopped using glue traps and went back to the old fashioned spring loaded traps.

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It is virtually impossible to get them unstuck from that glue unless you patiently dedicate maybe hours to it. One dude spent hours carefully unsticking this large mouse from a glue trap After finally finishing, and saying: "There we go buddy!" The large mouse suddenly broke loose from his grip and bolted right back into the wall in his house from which it had recently emerged.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
We used traps with food in them and caught a lot of mice that way. We would put the trap in the car and travel 5 or 6 miles from our house and let them go.

I hate seeing or hearing anything suffering needlessly.
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I don't own a car. I also suffer from a phobia which makes that impossible. Also, wouldn't that be dumping my rodent pest problem on other people.
Fear of mice and rats - Wikipedia
 
Radrook said:
I don't own a car. I also suffer from a phobia which makes that impossible. Also, wouldn't that be dumping my rodent pest problem on other people.
Fear of mice and rats - Wikipedia
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Both of my parents houses were in rural subdivisions so we’d drive down the country road and let them out in the middle of a field. If the mice found another house to go into, that’s out of my hands. I felt no guilt what so ever.
 

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