glue traps humane

glue traps humane

How to remove a mouse infestation from your home

Mouse Traps
Two types of mouse traps have dominated the market for years - the traditional spring snap trap and the glue board. The spring snap is generally considered to be more humane because death is instantaneous. The glue board, on the other hand, will hold the mouse to its sticky surface and keep it there until it starves to death.

Keeping Mice Out
A mouse will find its way into your home through an opening the width of a pencil. It is recommended that you to seek out cracks and crevices throughout your house and seal them up quickly with a good caulking compound. Not only will you deter mice, but other bugs and insects will find it hard to find their way in. Plus, your heating and air conditioning bills will go down.

Clean Up
Mice love to feast on the same things as teenagers and college students. Junk food left lying around on tables, rugs, counters and under furniture. Mice will be less likely to pay you a visit if you make your home a bit less hospitable by cleaning up all  crumbs and foodstuffs. It's time to say good bye to the stray Crunchie and the half-eaten Mars bar.

Mouse Poison
There are certainly a number of poisons on the market to bring get rid of your mice. Poison is not only harmful to mice, but pets and humans can become seriously ill when exposed to the toxins. Poisons should only be used in extreme cases of mouse infestation.

Plug Their Holes
In cartoons, mice usually enter and exit a room from a neatly rounded hole in the skirting board. In real life, their doorways are not too different and are pretty easy to spot if you are actively looking for them. You can make life difficult for your mice by tightly plugging the entryways with steel wool, which they can not gnaw through.

Always More than One
Do not be fooled by a single, solitary mouse. If you have one mouse in your house, you can be sure that there are several others in there too. House mice live in family units, often grooming their mates and offspring. Getting rid of mice quickly is crucial because they start breeding at three months, give birth to litters of 4-6 babies and have a life expectancy of four years.

Is There a More Humane Trap?
There certainly are traps that do not kill mice and simply imprison them in a cage until you come along to free them. However, mice tend to return to their home so you must drive miles and miles before releasing them into the wild, where they will most likely die a horrid death anyway (remember that these are house mice you are introducing to the great outdoors). So don't fool yourself by using these expensive "humane" traps.

Do Mice Really Like Cheese?
Actually, no! Research has shown that mice do not prefer cheese to other foods. Use peanut butter as bait if you want to lure mice with food they will be tempted by.

You Can Get Rid of Mice
Mice are one of the most common of household rodents and they are not the easiest animals to get rid of. The two prong strategy should be employed to effectively rid your home of mice. First, traps should be used to catch mice already in your house. Secondly, every effort should be made to seal off and plug all mice entryways. Thoroughly cleaning your house and removing stray foodstuffs will also deter mice from making their way into your home.

About the Author

This article was created by David Etherington for more information on pest control please visit his website leeds Pest control.

Is this standard procedure in pest control?

I saw a short video on how to capture mice. It was done by a professional pest control operator from ABC Pest Control. One of the methods he showed was using a glue board. But what did surprise me what that he said once the mouse is caught on the glue board, you throw it away. This struck me as not only odd, but certainly very cruel. Is it standard procedure to catch a mouse on a glue board, just to throw them away in the rubbish if they are still alive?

The guy offered nothing on what to do with them if they're alive. No humane methods of killing, no release tricks, nothing. Just "throw it out with the trap". This has really made me question the ethics of such a method. Aren't these pest control people qualified enough to put an animal out of its misery if it is alive on a trap?

Leaving an animal to starve to death doesn't sit well with me at all. Especially when there's the option to kill it humanely.

And this is why Glue Traps should be illegal. Animals caught on Glue Traps spend the last HOURS of their lives in sheer panic. They struggle and scream as they frantically try to escape, breaking or gnawing off their limbs in the process. Eventually they die of stress. It's disgusting.
Poison's no better, causing any animal who ingests it to suffer a long and agonizing death, not to mention the environmental hazards, especially since poisoned animals seek out water, so guess where the poison ends up? That's right, in our water sources.
Humane live traps are the best option for removing nuisance rodents, but if a kill method is desired, snap traps are definitely the most humane.

Snap Traps vs.Glue Traps You Decide

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