OT: Help!....trapping experts?

Rod,

Glue traps are when you place a small bottle of Elmer's School glue on the little trip lever of the spring trap. Typically this is done in hopes that the rat has some craft project where glue is needed (ie homemade Christmas cards with glitter, decopage, etc.) When the rat sees the glue, it thinks, "AHA! now I don't have to go the store!" This obviously only works if you are hunting the "Arts" & crafty type rodent. Crafty ones will ignore this bait altogher.

(yes, I can hear you all saying, " Crafty ones will ignore this bait" ala Airplane )

Just kidding Rod.

Couldn't help myself. Large doses of Monty Python recently.

THE REAL ANSWER:

Glue traps are usually rectangular pieces of cardboard with this haneous adhesive on it. you'd place them where you have the most rodent traffic and wait for them to run across it. Their feet will get stuck and you'll find them there. Then you have to terminate them with extreme prejudice. and dispose of them. These are a pain if there is a good bit of human traffic in the area. They are really hard to get unstuck from your shoe!!!:o

(Happened to me once:eek: )

-Craig
 
Glue Traps work great but watch out for what you catch! At work, for a mouse problem, the exterminator placed them all over our warehouse. Did not see one mouse caught but about 2 weeks later I saw one of the glue traps with a dead sparrow in it! Unknown to everyone else, I went around & threw out all those traps! I'd rather have the creature die a quick & sudden death from a spring type trap than suffer a slow starving death in a glue trap.
 
Used to use glue traps for roaches down in Texas. Works great and will pretty much end a roach problem quick. Just set it down in an area you know they will travel in. When the bottom is full you just flip it around and its good to go. Wouldn't use it for mice or rats, just doesn't seem right. Insects though, no problem.
 
I agree with the light trigger set.Works for those real smart bastids.We had a bunch of mice come into the house this winter,some of them pretty cagey,but the light set trigger got 'em. Buddy of mine had one he couldn,t catch,shot it with a .45 rubber bullet load(no powder,just an oversized primer.Blew the mouse all over the kitchen.I have some .38 rubber bullet loads. you drill out the primer hole and use a .357 mag primer.At 15 ft. it will go clear through both sides of an aluminum pop can.And they are q-u-i-e-t. If you can't catch them,splatter 'em!
 
Clydetz - I had a similar experience with glue traps. When I was stationed in Key West we put them all around the barracks to take care of the palmetto bugs (that's Floridian for "cockroaches"). After two days we'd caught zero bugs and four geckos. :(
 
raghorn -

Maybe you could appreciate this! Our computer people were having trouble with mice chewing up wires so I offered to get some regular mouse traps, set them & get rid of the 'dead' mice. Well, they opted for the glue traps. On the first day I saw they caught a mouse in a glue trap but did anyone want to dispose of it? Nooooo! Using my EDC, I cut the mouse loose & let him live for another day! Also picked up all the glue traps, stuck them all together & left them laying on one of the computers. :D They haven't used those 'sticky' traps since! I guess my attitude about trapping was formed in my youth. I always checked my muskrat traps every morning before school (hated to have an animal suffer all day or longer!) & reset them in the evening.
 
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