Originally Posted by
QKO
Ditto some more - whomever thought up those glue traps should be forced to undergo an adult-sized one. Not even a mouse deserves to die struggling and starving or go through that kind of torture.
The newer plastic snap traps do a great job, they're reusable, and even if your dog gets into them all they'll get is a little harmless nip.
And you won't have a mess all over your carpet.
After a mouse is caught in the glue trap the way it dies is up to you. You choose it's death. You can choose to let it die slowly or you can kill it very quickly and painlessly. Also, even the old wooden snap traps are reuseable. You only have to put the trap under very hot, hot water to remove the smell the panicked or dead mouse left on it. Then it is as good as new again. If your snap trap catches the mouse by the tail as sometimes happens you need to handle it carefully. My mother was bitten by a mouse as she picked up the trap it was caught in and had to have shots. Mice carry lots of diseases, usually on the fleas on their bodies, sometimes in their urine.