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Interesting point about the instructions there, because for the most part they tell people to simply "discard trap with animal", presuming that one just throws a live animal stuck on the trap into the bin. You point out how other traps are banned for being incredibly cruel, when the glue trap works on exactly the same principle. The glue meshes to their skin, causing self mutilation due to the struggle of self-preservation, something that would not happen with a cage trap. They are like your other snare trap that captures the animal, holds it in place but doesn't kill it - though the means of the capture forces injury. That includes gnawing their own legs off to escape, and this is something that animals regularly do on glue traps. Glue traps, in the end, cause as much needless suffering as a steel-jawed leghold trap for rabbits would due to the design of the trap alone. These traps should not be condoned in any way, in fact, they should be banned. The level of suffering these animals go through on these things when more humane alternatives could be used is simply unacceptable. |
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Defeat for the bats, birds and possums.
"GavinB" wrote in message
... John Savage;837279 Wrote: I don't believe instructions accompanying the use of tanglefoot would say to leave any trapped animal to die of thirst; and I don't believe any user would -- no more than they would with other live-capture traps. I'd expect users would check the trap daily and dispatch any captured pests quickly and humanely. A glue trap isn't intended to be a catch and release trap. They are designed to hold the animal in place so it dies of thirst/starvation because it has no access to food or water. (snip) john is a nice guy so he wouldn't - but yes, my point in the remarks i made was that, well, it's just "easy" for people to leave them there & tidy up weeks or months later.. and that is what some of them would do. ugh. i even went off the sticky yellow glue traps (for white fly, that one uses in the greenhouse or veggie patch) because i was catching little skinks. the little skinks wanted to eat the trapped bugs but got caught themselves. after our second afternoon of spending several hours unsticking all the lizard's little tiny feet & whatnot with a blunt pin, & trying to wash off all the sticky, i just decided i'd rather have white fly than stuck lizards. i think i agree with you - that perhaps such things are best off banned entirely. anything that is marketed to lazy people is probably a problem. :-) i mean, i am very lazy myself, but i try not to indulge it overly. kylie |
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