don't read this if you're easily grossed out...
i am so traumatized. we have mice, and as cute as they are, they have diseases and stuff, plus it's really freaky when you're walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night and a small animal runs over your feet. so i set out to buy traps. the traditional ones that break their backs seemed so awful, so i went for the glue traps, which are coated with a glue that tastes or smells good to them, and when they step onto it they get stuck, which seemed pretty humane because it doesn't kill them.
but no, it is NOT humane at ALL. i woke up yesterday morning and this POOR little mouse was stuck to a trap, it's little feet and chin glued down, panting in terror, and when it saw me it started desperately trying to get free, convlusing but unable to move. who knew how long it had been stuck there in this torture?? i almost threw up. i read the instructions, and it says "for humane purposes, when mouse is caught, dispose of properly(what???) or pour vegetable oil onto the trap and nudge the rodent with a blunt object to release." so i take the trap up the the roof, the mouse convulsing and hyperventilating, and when i pour the vegetable oil onto the trap, it coats the mouse, getting in its eyes, and it thrashes about. i try to "nudge the rodent with a blunt object," and it does not budge. i nudge a little harder, but it is still completely embedded in the glue. i try to push it out of the glue, but it's totally stuck, and i am hurting it. i finally get it out of the glue, with a lot more than a "nudge," and it lies in a puddle of oil, it's fur all matted with glue, and it think it's back legs are broken because it is pathetically dragging itself by it's front legs, trying to blink the oil out of its eyes.
i start to cry and say "i am so sorry, i'm SO sorry" over and over again. i swear to god it looks at me like "why? why?" i am totally freaking out and run back to my apartment to get some water and a cracker and i try to wash it off but now it's just in a pool of oil and water, which don't mix so it doesn't help. i put the cracker right in front of its nose and it sniffs it pathetically and continues to try to drag itself away with its front legs, in pain and dying. i'm crying and say "i'm so sorry" and go back to my aparment completely traumatized and put my head in my hands and feel like a terrible person.
i thought it was over, but i forgot there was a another trap out under the fridge, and i woke up this morning to squeaking cries and there was a BABY mouse stuck in the glue trap. i panicked and didn't want to put it through the same torture as the other one, so i with one quick blow to the neck i killed it. i have never felt so low.
oh my god i am so traumatized...how do people live with themselves using those traps? i'm going to have nightmares...i looked up no-kill traps online, i am NEVER going through that again.
but no, it is NOT humane at ALL. i woke up yesterday morning and this POOR little mouse was stuck to a trap, it's little feet and chin glued down, panting in terror, and when it saw me it started desperately trying to get free, convlusing but unable to move. who knew how long it had been stuck there in this torture?? i almost threw up. i read the instructions, and it says "for humane purposes, when mouse is caught, dispose of properly(what???) or pour vegetable oil onto the trap and nudge the rodent with a blunt object to release." so i take the trap up the the roof, the mouse convulsing and hyperventilating, and when i pour the vegetable oil onto the trap, it coats the mouse, getting in its eyes, and it thrashes about. i try to "nudge the rodent with a blunt object," and it does not budge. i nudge a little harder, but it is still completely embedded in the glue. i try to push it out of the glue, but it's totally stuck, and i am hurting it. i finally get it out of the glue, with a lot more than a "nudge," and it lies in a puddle of oil, it's fur all matted with glue, and it think it's back legs are broken because it is pathetically dragging itself by it's front legs, trying to blink the oil out of its eyes.
i start to cry and say "i am so sorry, i'm SO sorry" over and over again. i swear to god it looks at me like "why? why?" i am totally freaking out and run back to my apartment to get some water and a cracker and i try to wash it off but now it's just in a pool of oil and water, which don't mix so it doesn't help. i put the cracker right in front of its nose and it sniffs it pathetically and continues to try to drag itself away with its front legs, in pain and dying. i'm crying and say "i'm so sorry" and go back to my aparment completely traumatized and put my head in my hands and feel like a terrible person.
i thought it was over, but i forgot there was a another trap out under the fridge, and i woke up this morning to squeaking cries and there was a BABY mouse stuck in the glue trap. i panicked and didn't want to put it through the same torture as the other one, so i with one quick blow to the neck i killed it. i have never felt so low.
oh my god i am so traumatized...how do people live with themselves using those traps? i'm going to have nightmares...i looked up no-kill traps online, i am NEVER going through that again.