Oh, Hell no!
Posted on 03/01/2017 12:37:36 AM PST by Morgana
“Spectacular cruelty, glue traps.”
Originally designed to replace pubic waxing as the desired method of hair removal.
(the thought makes you cringe if you ever tried to remove an animal from one of these traps.... I purchased the sticky glue in gallon cans for insect traps in the orchard... now reserved for painting the toilet seat in the neighbor’s outhouse... (just kidding))
I travel a lot (been in the US twice in the last four weeks) but Nairobi Kenya is where I call home.
Her sperm donors left her with two kids and a giant hickey on her neck.
I have carefully removed trapped bugs and spiders from fly paper, with a 100% success rate.
I’ve also had deer mice brought to me, stuck to them and got them loose, as well.
I don’t use them here.
And I don’t wax anything, either.
:D
Vegetable oil will free trapped animals easily.
Not a week goes by in my snake forums, without someone, somewhere, posting their latest rescue from a glue trap.
Horrible way to die.
Or wax.
Yikes!
Skeery sneks!
Shudder!
One of my wife's co-workers (everyone in this story is an MD but me) contracted Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) after sweeping out her attic.
Apparently, the broom aerosolized some dried mouse droppings, she breathed it in and, the next thing you know, she's fighting for her life.
My wife described to me what the lady went through, including the extraordinary lengths to which the medical team went (which to me sounds way worse than the usual process of dying) in order to save her, which they did.
IIRC (it's been many years), they had to flush out her lungs with fluids, without the use of anesthetics; i.e., she had to drown, while remaining fully conscious many agonizing minutes, without anesthetics, in order to live. Sheesh! Couldn't they find an easier way?
Anyhoo, it scares the crap out of me.
We have a large storage unit that's been overrun by mice and I'm not going in it to clean it up. I've had a bad pneumonia before. My wife tells me HPS is like the worst pneumonia ever. I don't know what to do really. Many thousands of dollars worth of our stuff down the drain, I guess.
Probably should try to find one of those environmental contractors, like the guys who clean up asbestos sites. But who?
“Horrible way to die.”
I know... When I was in first grade my pet parakeet got loose from her cage and landed on the fly strip hanging from the ceiling....Ended up flopping until it was all in a ball.
By the time we got it free it had very few feathers and looked really bare and scrawny.
That was the end of my parakeet...
The glue in the gallon cans is far worse than the fly paper...
Near a den. Hibernating garters. Yes, we had the thread. [2011]
Terrible. Just awful. I can’t imagine such cruelty.
Quick and merciful should be the benchmark, when you have to dispatch a critter.
I’m sitting here at the computer, with bare feet resting
under the desk - imagining snakes crawling around under
the desk. We have rattlesnakes & copperheads out here.
:o(
Oh, Hell no!
Sorry to hear that. Maybe you could get one or more HEPA filters like Honeywell 50250-S True HEPA Air Purifier, 390 sq. ft., and a respirator, and maybe stick a leaf blower inside (on a windy day) to stir things up once in a while and let the filter gradually clean it.
Use the respirator when cleaning the filter.
If mice are still in there and it is a fairly well sealed unit, maybe putting a few pounds of dry ice in there would kill them. Or burn powdered sulfur as they used to do in the old days. Put a couple lbs in a coffee can and set that in a bin of water and light it, and let is burn, and after a day seal up any the holes the mice get in thru, and then air it out.
Yeah, except when they catch scorpions. Then I don't wince quite as much.
Possibly your local health department might know.
My second guess would be your fire department since they deal with hazmat stuff all the time.
Horrifying story.
I have no words.
:(
Mercy takes more effort than easy.
:(
I use them because the are very effective for fiddlebacks and mice and even small snakes. Sometimes I will have all three on the same pad. They are cheap and I can cover the shed or garage pretty well.
No, I don’t worry about the mice’s feelings or suffering. They are disease carrying vermin, who are very destructive. Sometimes I finish them off quickly, sometimes I leave them or let the cat have fun with them.
That chicken didn’t live a life of luxury and comfort. But he sure made a good 3 strip chick-fil-a chicken meal.
Maybe, but my neighbor is a cleaning fanatic and three winters ago found an infestation of canebrake rattlers in her crawl space hibernating.
They can find small openings in the floorboards and water pipe holes and get into the house too.
Best Mousetrap EVER!
gather a bucket; piece of wire a little longer than the bucket is wide; an unopened soup can; a piece of wood taller than the bucket; and peanut butter, bacon.
Open the can without taking the top off entirely. Empty can contents and punch small hole in both ends of the can. String the wire thru the can and tie assembly across the top of the bucket to where the handles attach. When done the wire should be tight and the can spins easily on it.
Spread peanut butter on can and add bacon. Place bucket where the rodents are. Place the piece of wood up against the bucket to make a ramp to the rim.
Make yourself a bag of popcorn. When you come back to the bucket you should see a line of rodents on the ramp waiting to take their turn at the rim to jump on the peanut butter. And SPLOOOOSH! and SPLOOOOSH! ...
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