[rident]

Who leaves a mouse on a glue trap until it dies? That's messed up! I can hear when a mouse is on those things and at that point I carry the frightened mouse outside, pour a cap full of vegetable oil around it's feet and it frees itself, running off into the yard, then the trap goes in the trash. Heinously cruel? Only if you're a lazy shit.

[petee]

First off, they are sold to glue a mouse, then toss the whole thing, mouse and all. They don't market it as a catch-and-release.

And because they don't only get stuck by their feet, like their face, for example. If you're only planning on catch-and-release, then use a trap made for that. How silly do you have to be to glue them to a piece of paper, just to intend to un-glue them later?? That alone is cruel.

[rident]

They don't get gore in my house like a snap trap does yet fit in the same places where a catch-and-release trap would not. The mouse still lives and I get maybe two of them a year, in the fall as the temps cool. I really don't think it's a big deal.

[Shikadi]

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

[__blockcipher__]

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.

[NullPrefix]

>upon receiving the first blow?

How many times did you hit?

[__blockcipher__]

A lot of times. It was dead pretty quickly but I went a bit overboard just to be sure.

[all2]

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.

[jwagenet]

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/

[drilldrive]

I wouldn't leave the mouse to run about, causing trouble in other's yards. Just kill it swiftly.

[paleogizmo]

Glue traps are practical (though cruel) if you have property that you visit infrequently so changing out bait on snap traps isn't an option. If that isn't the case there are humane options that are also effective. I used the "Mice Cube" live traps off Amazon which worked well and don't pose a risk to pets or wild predators. Live traps do need to be checked frequently so the animal won't die horribly.

Definitely don't use poison. It's not painful for the rodents, but it makes its way up into the food chain. Mountain Lion P47 in CA is alleged to have died from rat poison ingestion.

[wwweston]

If the point is catch-and-release, there might be better options:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAzyDDAppU

There doesn't seem to be a lot of distress/trauma involved -- in fact, if you watch to about 2:54, there's a rodent that apparently successfully avoids the trapdoor action and then more or less appears to think to itself "hey, what's down here, maybe I'll join the party."