How do you know when glue traps will be banned in England?
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Boosted LS1 said:
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They are designed to attract rodents that are then stuck fast when they walk on to them and so can’t move and eventually die starving to death.
I think.
Hawks and other birds of prey to iirc. A nasty way to die.I think.
Anyone using them should in my mind be checking multiple times per day & putting anything out of their
misery promptly. The same as using poison & other traps they should not be readily accessible to non target species like birds of prey.
Joe Public might use them anywhere but pest controllers won’t. In practice I’d imagine they’d only be used in sterile locations such as contaminent or allergy free areas. Sone poisons are now getting banned from being used outside.
Somewhatfoolish said:
The Glue Trap act basically says they'll be illegal when a statutory instrument is passed saying it's enacted. News stories online say it was meant to be live in April 2024 but it doesn't seem to be yet. Is there any particular place to look to know when it actually will be live?
Glue Traps (Offences) Act 2022 (Commencement) Regulations 2024. S.I. 686 of 2024.Sections 2 and 10 of the Glue Traps (Offences) Act 2022 in force on 22 May 2024.
The remaining provisions of the 2022 Act in force 31 July 2024.
to use one.I refuse to use snap-traps for similar reasons, having seen mice pinned by a leg and a glis-glis with the snap bar across the poor creature's neck insufficiently hard to kill it, but enough to maim it. The snap-trap in the second case was supposedly strong enough to kill a rat but a glis-glis, for those haven't met one, is smaller than a rat but tough enough to survive.
I caught a grey squirrel in a 'humane' cage trap and the rules are that as a pest species it cannot be released back into the wild, I subsequently learned.This squirrel was less than pleased and when I eventually opened the cage door with a stick while wearing very thick leather gloves, it looked puzzled for a few seconds and then lit up its afterburners and flew out like a guided missile. High voltage electronic instant kill traps are all I would use.
I caught a grey squirrel in a 'humane' cage trap and the rules are that as a pest species it cannot be released back into the wild, I subsequently learned.This squirrel was less than pleased and when I eventually opened the cage door with a stick while wearing very thick leather gloves, it looked puzzled for a few seconds and then lit up its afterburners and flew out like a guided missile. High voltage electronic instant kill traps are all I would use.
If you have live motion camera monitoring of the traps then it’s just about justifiable. Otherwise, pretty cruel.
We had them in the loft and the camera alerted me, but the thud thud thud of the trapped rat would have done anyway.
5 mins later and we were all finished, but I’d hate to think of the rat trapped there for hours.
This was before the ban in Wales. No idea what the last resort would be today.
We had them in the loft and the camera alerted me, but the thud thud thud of the trapped rat would have done anyway.
5 mins later and we were all finished, but I’d hate to think of the rat trapped there for hours.
This was before the ban in Wales. No idea what the last resort would be today.
Edited by Llandudno on Friday 24th May 00:40
I use them when we have an issue.
Traps, poisons never seem to work.
Horrible way to go but I check them every day.
Fold trap in half and bash really hard at head end with a brick.
I’m very very careful on positioning as we have a cat and a dog. Can’t imagine how you would go about cleaning up a cat.
Haven’t used them to try to catch the civet cat that has made its home in roof of our guest cabin in the garden. Trying to find a better solution to that; trap and relocate.
Traps, poisons never seem to work.
Horrible way to go but I check them every day.
Fold trap in half and bash really hard at head end with a brick.
I’m very very careful on positioning as we have a cat and a dog. Can’t imagine how you would go about cleaning up a cat.
Haven’t used them to try to catch the civet cat that has made its home in roof of our guest cabin in the garden. Trying to find a better solution to that; trap and relocate.
Edited by jdw100 on Monday 27th May 01:44
A 220+ year old house I'm working on has just had to use these after pest control all but gave up on it (the whole street is infested).
They worked.
The labourer shot the rats in the head as soon as they got stuck,
It's horrible, but it had to be done, the rats were eating through the electricity cables and then frying themselves under the floors.
We cleared out (this is not a joke) hundreds of dead rats from the last 30+ years, which were piled up under the floors. (I have photos if anyone claims custard).
Amazed the place didn't burn down. The smell was what I image a dead body smells like.
They worked.
The labourer shot the rats in the head as soon as they got stuck,
It's horrible, but it had to be done, the rats were eating through the electricity cables and then frying themselves under the floors.
We cleared out (this is not a joke) hundreds of dead rats from the last 30+ years, which were piled up under the floors. (I have photos if anyone claims custard).
Amazed the place didn't burn down. The smell was what I image a dead body smells like.
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