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Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Glue Traps (ft. Quelle Chris)

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It's my partner's birthday tomorrow, and our plans for the day now include taking a bird to the Alabama Wildlife Center, because my employer unfortunately uses glue traps in the warehouse, and a wren that got into the building lost most of the flight feathers of one wing and all of its tail feathers struggling after getting caught in one. It can take birds upwards of a year to recover from such a major loss of their flight and tail feathers, so assuming it even survives the stress, this poor little creature has a long road to recovery.

Glue traps are an incredibly cruel and indiscriminate form of pest control notorious for capturing non-target species. Even when target species are the only victims, these traps are egregiously inhumane, causing extreme distress and terror, horrifying injuries like skin slippage, and typically result in a slow, lingering death. They shouldn't even be legal in my opinion. Proper pest control involves locating and resolving points of entry, reducing or eliminating pest access to the resources that draw them in, applying deterrents, and - if lethal means are necessary - humane, effective, and targeted removal. Not this.

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Hey.

I just needed a place to…process this, I guess.

So, my workplace almost got shut down by the health inspector (mouse problem because our trash doesn’t get picked up by the company often enough, not enough people to deep clean often enough, etc). In addition to doing some deep cleaning, we’ve also got the really inhumane glue traps. I get that, with the humane traps, there’s a risk of them coming back, but…I saw a mouse struggling in one of the traps. I threw it away as gently as possible, because I didn’t know how to end its suffering. But…I already hate this work place, I’m looking for another job. I hate that I’m now involved in dealing with these really inhumane traps. Watching the mouse struggle is gonna fuck me up for a while.

I don’t know. I don’t kill the spiders in my house. I just really hate this.

I’m sorry anon, I’ve been in a similar situation and I know how rough it is to deal with. For your part, you can advocate for humane traps, the idea that mice automatically come back is largely rubbish, so long as you release them in a suitable grassy area with some shelter, somewhere that isn’t just around the corner. You aren’t supposed to leave them overnight though as the mice panic, but even that is better than them getting stuck in a glue trap.

When my workplace did this years ago, I first emailed the site manager and HR to tell them why glue traps are cruel, unhygienic, distressing for me personally due to my beliefs etc. After they dismissed that with platitudes (we acknowledge your deeply held beliefs but don’t care) I just consistently sabotaged the traps, stuck them to each other or just threw them away. They knew I was doing it but they didn’t do anything about it, either because they didn’t want that battle or because they couldn’t prove it. They eventually just stopped putting them out and the deep clean did the job by itself.

I did that to make a point though, the more subtle form of sabotage is to pour cooking oil, KY jelly or WD40 on them, which makes them useless. It just depends how much you need this specific job and whether you feel you are essential enough to get away with doing it, or if you are confident you have plenty of opportunities to sabotage the traps without being caught.

If none of that is an option for you, I’d advise looking for another place to work. If they’re doing this long term, it’ll have a big impact on your mental health seeing that over and over. I hope you manage to get out of that situation either way anon, it is a horrible thing to deal with.

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Glue Traps and Why They Suck

⚠️ CW: Animal Cruelty and Death ⚠️

I saw a terrible video a few hours ago. Throughout the video, five or six mice and a snake were stuck to a glue trap and died a very slow, painful death over the course of a few days. It was horrible to watch but what was worse to see were all the comments cheering for it.

Glue traps are an incredibly inhumane type of pest control. They work by using a very sticky glue that traps animals such as rats, mice, snakes, bugs, and other small critters. The animals don't die immediately. Instead, they suffer and die a painful death of starvation and exhaustion. There have even been cases of them chewing through their own limbs in an attempt to escape.

These traps also end up trapping many animals other than the intended targets. There have been cases of harmless snakes being caught in traps intended for spiders, birds being caught in traps intended for insects, and even some threatened and endangered species being caught.

With all these awful consequences, you'd think that the traps would have to at least work well. Nope. Glue traps have been proven to have little to no affect on infestations as they don't target and address the source of the problem. People have also reported being bitten by some of the animals stuck to the trap while trying to dispose of the traps.

If you do have a problem with infestations or pests, there are so many better options out there. You can call a local professional to relocate animals, use humane traps that don't kill the animal, or even those that offer a quick death. I'm against killing animals as a general rule but at least a quick death would be better than these cruel and inhumane contraptions.

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the striaton triplets didnt show up to the fight against the seven sages because they were dying in a glue trap

someone translate this I have no idea what any of these words mean

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PLEASE STOP USING GLUE TRAPS

On Monday, February 22nd, TWRC Wildlife Center admitted an Eastern Screech Owl stuck on a glue trap and covered in glue.

The owl was trying to catch a mouse that had already gotten stuck on the trap and, inadvertently, ended up getting itself stuck too. Our vet room staff spent many hours and sessions over the course of two days to safely remove the glue while minimizing stress on the owl as much as possible.

A few days later, the owl was cleaned, rested, and ready for release back into the wild!This is a great example of why glue traps should never be used for pest control. Glue traps result in broken bones and other injuries as animals struggle to get out, and some do not survive the stress of the glue removal process. The TWRC receives numerous cases like this every year as birds and other predators fall victim to glue traps while hunting for their next meal.

As you prepare your homes against unwanted pests this spring, we recommend forgoing items like glue traps and poisons, and opt for taking more preventative measures, including identifying and sealing potential entry points and avoiding the dispersal of potential food sources like seed feeders.

via: Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition (TWRC)

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