There are quite few things I’d like to address in this thread:

 

LisaChasez wrote:
Seriously?  ITS A MOUSE. 

Funny how people flip out just because someone actually decided for a change that killing is not always the answer to solve a problem. And it isn’t. The “kill kill kill” mentality is lazy and shallow minded.


GettinHotWithJC wrote:
I'm an animal lover too.

Yet you use a glue trap?

 

thread killer 00 wrote:
I was terrified to get rid of the trap once the mouse was caught, and I found that a dustpan is essential.

You? Terrified? How about the animal over 20 times smaller than you stuck on adhesive? I’m guessing you’re one of those cruel people who just chuck the animal in the garbage bin without mercifully killing it, so it spends days without food and water while it rips off bits of its flesh from struggling to get off. Then it starves to death.

 

And you are the terrified one?


LisaChasez wrote:
You're nuts

See, I don’t understand this. Some people actually have the decency to not put the animal through unnecessary agony, and they are the nutty ones? No. I wish there were more people like that instead of the heartless troglodytes who, for some reason, find it necessary to torture the animals to death.


Wntd xdeadoralive wrote:
I'm an animal lover too but mouses are a completely unnecessary species. They have no worth at all.

Wow. An animal lover saying that mice are an “unnecessary” species and they have no worth? No worth to whom? You, a supposed “animal lover” ? Every animal has an ecological niche; mice are vital components of the ecosystem. Without them many animals would die out because they rely on them as food. Of course they have worth – if you are talking intrinsic worth, that is completely arbitrary and pointless to bring up. Case in point: what if someone called YOU worthless? Does that mean it is so? How about if someone called all cats worthless? Does that mean it is so?


thread killer 00 wrote:
Why kill them? You said it: they're disgusting and worthless.

That’s not a good reason to kill anything. You kill for self defence or for food – for anything else, it is unethical. Frankly I find people who use glue traps and justify their cruelty more disgusting than mice. And, again, the worthless tag is completely arbitrary. I know many people who consider homeless people worthless because they contribute nothing to society, by extension of your flawed logic that is reason enough to kill them. An extreme analogy? Yes, but that is your logic in play, not mine.


GettinHotWithJC wrote:
Once it's caught I'm getting my next door neighbor to pick it up and toss it.

Does that mean what I think it does? If so, how could you call yourself an animal lover? I don’t mean to offend, but do you really understand what the animals go through on glue traps? Especially when there are simply discarded alive like rubbish, and just left on them?


Ninido wrote:
The snap traps rarely kill the rodent immediately.

Not true. They are usually very effective – you must have not set them properly or used the wrong bait. Go for the sturdy ones.


Mistress Darcy wrote:
That being said, I realize not many people think that mice or other animals deserve any type of mercy or compassion because it isn't a cat or dog.

Because these people are fools. It’s very frustrating isn’t it? You’d think that anyone with basic compassion for a dog or cat has it because they can understand that they can feel pain. So can mice. Cats and dogs aren’t the only animal worthy of respect. If these hypocrites can’t see that gluing a mouse down and forcing it to starve to death isn’t cruelty, then what is the point whining about any instance of animal cruelty? Save the whales! Ban fox hunting! Oh, but using glue traps is A-OK even though animals regularly maim themselves and die long, slow torturous deaths on them.

 

So far from what I’ve read, I’m not impressed by some people’s attitudes. Calling something “worthless” is only an excuse to kill something, nothing more. It is the same reasoning behind most animal abuse – take a look at all the things people do to animals, and ask yourself why they do it? Because they have it in their minds that the animals are worthless, meaning they can do whatever they want. Such a stupid, simplistic mindset… it is a flaw on our species.

 

I have a challenge for people who use glue traps or any other extremely cruel methods of disposal: put yourself in the mouse’s position, and see how you’d feel. Then ask yourself: “Why am I causing it pain when I can just kill it in a humane manner?” Please don’t lecture me about how mice have diseases, how they’re pests, etc. That’s besides the point because we all do agree that they should be gotten rid of for those very reasons. I am not against killing pest animals. However, some methods are very questionable… and ironically, if used on a stray dog or cat (that are pests in some places too), the very same people who use these methods would be whining about cruelty. Bottom line: you’re going to kill an animal? Fine. But do it quickly and painlessly. Causing it unnecessary pain is wrong, and just shows what kind of person one is… even if it is against a mouse (that feel the same pain as a dog or cat does).

 

It’d be nice for people once in a while to sit back and actually think what they’re doing.