Sticky pads for mice? Should I use it along with the others? Is the mouse going to be alive when I capture it?

Answer 1

Please do not use sticky pads to catch mice. They are cruel and evil.

Use a NO-KILL trap which is the responsible and humane way to eliminate mice. Most hardware stores sell no-kill traps (some even rent them). They are re-usable.

I prefer HavaHart no-kill traps when one of my pet mice escapes from the cage. Well worth the investment.
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Answer 2

Please don't use the sticky traps. As others have described above, they are incredibly cruel. If anyone currently has a live mouse stuck to one of these horrid things, you CAN get it off alive. Pour vegetable oil around it to loosen the glue, and then push the mouse off gently with a pencil. Of course, this is awkward, messy, and terrifying for the mouse (although it's a better alternative than remaining stuck and starving to death). It's better not to use them in the first place.

Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

I've had great success with this live trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

It’s also available for $2 cheaper here (although I prefer to buy it from the other place since I’m not a big fan of PETA):

https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200

I've caught over a dozen mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. Also, if you use the live traps outside, put some bedding (torn-up paper towels or cotton balls) inside the trap so the mice won't freeze to death during the night. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants. If you are a kind person, you might also leave a little bird seed or oatmeal for them.

It doesn't take much extra effort to be kind. You will feel better and so will the mice! Good luck!

Answer 3

Sticky traps are horrible! Both for the mouse and the home owner.

We were forced to use them when we rented a house in the city because the little vermin were everywhere and too smart for the snap traps or friendly traps.

I would monitor the traps closely and then take it outside ASAP in a bag and kill the mouse with a brick. I absolutley and completely hated it. Hated it.

It was us against them, however, and I couldn't afford to keep losing all the food they were eating up and they were keeping us awake at night running marathons in the ceiling. Bold suckers, too. They would walk out of the wall and sit between our feet watching TV with us! EEW!

The landlord finally, finally agreed to let us get a cat, but by that time, we had made up our minds to move. I will never use sticky pads again.

Answer 4

I agree with the general assembly here, Sticky Traps are exceedingly cruel.

I had a horrid mouse problem in an Apartment I lived in a few years back and tried all kinds of traps to catch the little suckers.

The Snap traps were really gory and messy and made me feel incredibly cruel for killing such a tiny little creature. Then I tried a version of a snap trap where the mouse is supposed to go inside and get smooshed but these never worked (they had itty bitty little openings and field mice can be rather BIG)

So next I used the "Humane" Traps which are really just little boxes with a one way swinging door you put a little cheese or peanut butter in. I tried those for several weeks and never caught a SINGLE mouse! I figure that my scent was on the boxes because I had to handle them to load the food in and the mice wouldn’t go near something that smelled like human.

Soooo, out of desperation I bought the sticky traps and they DID work...of course they made me feel like a sadist, torturing the poor little mice. I would be woken up at like 3 am by a whining and scratching noise only to run to the kitchen and see this poor little mouse scared out of its mind, struggling to free itself from this sticky goop only to get more stuck. They would cry and I do mean cry as they got more and more stuck into the goop. You could see the panic and desperation on the little mouse’s face as their whole body got glued into this trap.

I only used those traps twice and both times I ended up putting on a pair of leather work gloves and very carefully freeing the poor little mouse and then placing him in the "Humane" trap with a little crackers and peanut butter so they could recover and clean themselves off. Then I let them go in the field across the road...LOL

By this time I was completely out of ideas, I had tried every kind of trap and the only one that worked (and didn’t spew mouse guts everywhere) was cruel. What to do?

Well, I found these Sonic Pest Repellers at a hardware store. They kind of look like an air freshener that you plug into an outlet. I didn’t think they would really work but I figured that ANYTHING was worth a shot. I bought 4 of them at like $6.00 each and placed them in my apartment (2 in the kitchen, 1 in the living room and 1 in the dining room).

I left for a business trip to California the next day and was gone for a little over a week. When I came home the mice were GONE, completely, totally gone. Not only that but they STAYED gone. I lived in that apartment for the next 3 years and while all my neighbors in the surrounding apartments had horrible mice problems every winter I never saw or heard a single mouse in my place again.

Since then I have moved several times and have ALWAYS made sure I had those Sonic Pest Repellers. I've used them for 7 years now and haven’t ever seen a mouse anywhere I have lived. I HIGHLY recommend you try them, they sure saved me a lot of grief and saved the mice from horrible painful deaths *S*

Answer 5

Yes, with the sticky pad it will be alive. Personally I'd use the other because it usually kills them and I don't like mice. You can use both but you'll only catch it in one not both at the same time. Decide if you want it dead or alive. If you catch it live what are you going to do with it? Somehow take it off the sticky trap or let it starve to death? I'd go the quick route.

Answer 6

you should probably use a regular trap because it has a better chance of getting killed more quickly. Another thing you could do is use poison but i wouldn't recommend it if you have animals. One more thing is a home made kind of thing whereyou dont have to kill it. you can place some paper on top of a jar cut slits in the middle of the paper then put peanut butter in the middle of the paper and give the mouse somting to climb onto the jar with. the mouse will go for the peanut butter then fall in the jar then when you find it just take the jar so you dont have to touch the mouse and dump it back into the wild

Answer 7

i really would not suggest using sticky pads. the poor little things never meant anyone harm, you gotta remember they had a home at one time before houses were built in wooded areas.

humane traps are much better.. its true animals do usually instinctively struggle to get out even if it means chewing off their own legs,

there are a bunch of humane traps out there, just do a search or ask an exterminator about humane traps.

Answer 8

The mouse is still alive in the sticky thing. These are designed to capture the mouse alive so you can release them back into the wild. When they are released back into the wild, all they are going to do is find another home to torment. The best thing is a trap or a cat.

Answer 9

i used one. the mouse was stuck for hours, because i was too freaked out to pick it up. i felt so sad that i had to do it, that i first placed the trap in a paper bag (before the mouse got trapped). after all the fuss, i looked in the bag, and the mouse was gone! he chewed his way out by chewing around his feet! smart little b*stard! anyway, i felt terrible, and would have much rather used a no kill trap. i used to own pet mice, and felt very bad to have to trap one in the house. he got away, though, so...

Answer 10

Sticky traps are cruel, how about catch and release cages? They are inexpensive, humane and reusable. the mouse is just trying to make a living.