No idea why people buy these. Humane traps are inexpensive, reusable, and effective.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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Two reasons: laziness (glue trap goes in the bin without having to clean it, and effectiveness (not much escapes them).
Both are bad reasons, given the additional environmental costs and inhumane method.
Glue traps fail as a long-term solution because they neglect to address the source of the problem: As long as food remains accessible, more animals will move in to take the place of those who have been killed.
As with any trap.
Sure, but there are only so many mice in an area and only so many of those that find their way into an undesirable location. You can make better arguments against glue traps than "killing vermin doesn't make them go away forever"
Cats are better.
I have a terrier with a history of mouse murder, but he's not doing jack against the mice in our creepy attic with exposed fiberglass.
why would anyone listen to PETA? they are eco-terrorists
You say eco-terrorists like theyβre a company dumping industrial waste.
Citation needed.
Eco-terrorism is a term invented by Ron Arnold, Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. If that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know what is.
Still applies to what they do. Wanna protest with signs in front of an office or whatever go ahead. Wanna break into a work site and disable equipment you don't own, yeah I don't fly with that.
Peta missing the point again.
The reason why glue traps in particular are horrible is because unlike snap traps, they aren't an instant-kill, leaving the mice to unnecessarily suffer through starvation, often over multiple days.
There are documented cases of mice and rats self-cannibalising to escape glue traps, as well as cases where they break their own bones in the struggle to escape. It's needless pain, even mouse trap enthusiasts are more often than not against glue traps because they see it as being needlessly cruel.
It's easy to shit on PETA, but they have things right in this case.
Heartbreaking:
The person you hate just made a great point
That's your take eh?