If you found on animal stuck on a glue trap, injured and mangled, would you... ?

Question

A) Put it out of its misery by killing it humanely.

B) Kill it tortuously.

C) Not kill it at all, but throwing it, with the trap, into the rubbish bin where it dehydrates/starves to death.

D) Use something that dissolves the glue and release the animal into the wild to fend for itself.

E) Look at it and walk away, pretending you never saw it.

I am asking this question because I know some people who use glue traps, and find no moral problem with just chucking a live mouse/rat/bird/snake/whatever into the bin while still stuck and alive on the trap. If YOU were in such a position as to stumble on a horribly injured animal, what would you do?

Answer 1

C

Answer 2

Ewww...icky question.  I'd kill the animal humanely, and properly dispose of the glue trap.  

I will NOT allow the use of glue traps on our farm or house, because they are inhumane.

I will not even allow the sticky fly strips to be put up in the barn, to help keep the flies down for our livestock.  They can catch songbirds, or worse, hummingbirds!  (and bats)

I have used the sticky fly strips in the house, to catch flies.

To control flies on the farm, we use fly traps (bottles, only flies can get into) and parasitic wasps.

Rodent control is done with cats, our farm dogs, chickens (yes, chickens are indeed omnivores), and keeping a clean farm, not allowing grain to spill, and keeping everything in rodent proof containers.  Rodent control is also provided by the many wild raptors and owls we have patroling our farm...24/7 protection!

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 3

A!

Glue traps are the cruelest most disgusting forms of torture and they should be banned! And all the sick people that leave these horrible traps out for poor animals to get stuck to, should have the same done to them!!!!!!!

Wounded Duck you should be one of these people!

Answer 4

my wife used to put them in plastic bags and stick it in the freezer.

I think that's A

Answer 5

it would depend on the animal.

a rat just chuck it but out in the wild so another animal can eat it. but you would have to use this stuff so another animal wont get stuck. thats what my family did when we had a rat infection.

a squirrel put it out humanely

glue traps are REALLY hard to get an animal off so the other option is out the window

Answer 6

A)

Wounded Duck, you can be stuck on a glue trap left to suffer.

Answer 7

D. I love animals so i pick D.

Answer 8

I will call Animal Protection Agency in my area like PETA etc.

By the way some of the alternatives are so cruel, while reading, I shuddered  and felt deep pain in stomach.

Answer 9

D. what those ppl are doing is cruel