Mice and Glue-Trap Cruelty

     Most of us hate having mice roaming around our house or apartments. They can introduce disease, smell bad, defecate and urinate all over the place,  and breed if left unmolested. So it's understandable that most of us take measures to eliminate them. What isn't understandable is that we might prefer choose an inhumane or cruel way as opposed to a humane fashion to do so.

     What is and humane fashion? A humane fashion to dispose of them would be quick, in order to minimize suffering.  An inhumane fashion would be to have the creature struggle for hours and maybe days in agony and in panic. Unfortunately, and I say unfortunately because this sticky surface trap method to catching the mouse proved very quick and efficient. But then the inhumane part kicked in.  Why? Well, because any mouse caught this way, if will struggle for hours and maybe days full of fear and maybe gradually suffocating if its nose is partially blocked by the glue or else squealing in agony if the glue has gotten into its eyes and is burning him.

     So if you are squeamish about putting it quickly to death, then don't use that method. Neither deposit the living stuck, agonizing mouse into the garbage bin where it will remain in the same condition for maybe days.  A regular mouse trap doesn't involve this dilemma as far as I my experience has been. The Mouse is either dead or so seriously injured that it died shortly after. No unnecessary suffering, no problem of what to do with a live mouse and no worry or remorse.