Thank God! I pray that North America follows suit.

Last year someone was on the front page of our paper showing the sticky paper had trapped a chickadee. The whole premise is horrific and animal cruelty, no matter the animal.

they are so inhumane! now, lets get rid of leg traps, cruelest of the cruel!

I was working in a house years ago, where there were some sticky bug traps. Behind a refrigerator, two wee mice had expired on the bug trap. So sad! But those most have been really sticky. I had bought a sticky mouse trap once, but after reading the package I returned it, it sounded so horrible.

We had a spring trap under the sink. One day a mouse caught some part of its body in the trap and rattled around under the sink. I couldn’t stand it, but I just couldn’t steel myself to open the cabinet and tend to the situation. I’m such a wuss. I waited till DH got home, let/made him deal with it. The thing is, he had to directly dispatch the mouse. That poor mouse, all day with its leg or something caught, and horrible me couldn’t bring myself to look after it. Oh, and those traps where the mouse enters and somehow is killed? They aren’t 100% effective, either.

Sprt, when we first moved here in 1975 our dog got caught in a steel leg-hold trap. I'm pretty sure it had been set on our property, since we had 31 acres and she didn't wander far. Fortunately, whoever set the trap released her leg, and she hobbled home. She recovered completely with treatment.

I don't know if this is irony, but a few years earlier, when we lived in NJ, I joined a group protesting the use of these traps at the state capitol.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no reason to torture any living being.

Mice are not cute little cartoon characters. They trasmit disease/viruses/bacteria by bite/on their fur or by excrement, carry ticks, destroy food supplies, they destroy electrical wiring/insulation/machinery etc, let alone leave excrement everywhere that when dried spred disease through the air.

I have two homes. One semi-rual, one country. In our country home just this year we caught 14 mice in the basement, before they got into the main house. We've tried every snap trap possible with only partial success. Sticky traps work 100% of the time for us and always have one set. If you don't like sticky traps then fine don't use them but just because you don't doesn't mean everyone else should.

Yes, mice have a place on the food chain, but only outside of my home. If they would outlaw selling sticky traps I would be the first one buying a lifetime supply.

Functionthenlook, I don't want them in my house either. I'm not looking to start a long term loving relationship with rodents.

However I can't in good conscience subject another living being to actual torture. The snap traps work instantaneously, most of the time. Yes, they do malfunction occasionally. However an occasional malfunction is better (IMO) over torturing something to death.

I’ve killed plenty of mice in my home but would never consider torturing them with glue traps. Right or wrong I have less qualms about fly paper or glue traps for other insects. Spiders don’t seem to be conflicted with this method either.

Kind of wish I hadb’t looked up leg traps. Yes those should be outlawed, too.

I agree with Function. I don't use sticky traps, they never worked for me, and I don't like using poison either. I use a snap trap that catches them behind their head and ends their life immediately. I refuse to let nasty, disease-carrying rodents run around in my house and will use whatever means necessary to get rid of them.

Good! It’s a too cruel way, and one I’ve always hated and refused to use!

Glued to death = torture, there's no way to deny that.

If you have an infestation of rodents that snap traps can't deal with, call in the professionals.

Sticky traps keeps our homes from being infested. Infestations happen when you don't kill them.

We never had problems with mice before our cat died and we choose not to get another cat. We didn't buy the country home until the cat had already passed. . The first week we were away we come home to find 3 mice scurrying from under the stove. For 3 days we put out 3 of 2 different kinds of snap traps only to catch 1 mouse. Every morning we would wake up to the bait gone and the traps set off, but no dead mice. We set out the sticky traps and the next morning we were happily greeted with all the remaining mice dead.

Maybe if people would quit complaining of their neighbors cat being outside or freaking out everytime they see a fox, coyote or bird of prey and bludgeoning snakes to dead with shovels every time they see one, there wouldn't be an increase in mice.

Our lab used to sacrifice mice, these days we use IPS cells. I came to the conclusion there is no humane way to kill. Some ways are more heinous than others, but none are humane.

ETA: no matter how much you try to keep them calm, they know what's coming. We even anesthetized them. They know.

Nickel the professionals use sticky traps......

Rob that makes me sad.

Years ago I met a girl with a hound. The hound was making a hoarse coughing sound. She said that was her bark. She was used for experiments and they cut the vocal cords. A few years ago I saw a board with holes that the dog is put into with it's legs dangling thru the holes. They struggle to get away but can't as their legs are dangling below them. I can't get this out of my mind.

Yay, those sticky traps are horrendous and I cannot believe people are so cruel to actually use them and watch an innocent living thing struggle to die. Shame! Leg traps are hideous too and I have saved many caught creatures years ago from traps when I lived in the country, and I dispensed with the traps by throwing them in the lake. Decades ago. We occasionally have a mouse in our 185year old house but I have three cats. One usually gets it but doesn't kill it and I catch it and put it outside. If I don't catch it, I forget about it. I respect ALL living things and once raised a sweet deer mouse for two years in an aquarium.

Yep. Been there. Took a class in undergrad about animals in research and that single class left more of a lasting impression on me that maybe anything else in life that I've ever done or seen. Man's inhumanity to the other creatures inhabiting this planet boggles my mind.

You will get people who tell you that it's our birthright, or God-given right, or somesuch - that we are so vastly superior to all the other creatures that their suffering is of no importance to us.

Then you'll get other people who point out that man's inhumanity to other humans is also endemic (which it is), and so since we can't even treat other humans humanely why are we talking about other animals...

And so it goes.

The good new is that we do seem to be making some small headway, every now and then anyway.

Snap traps only! Yes, we will kill them in the house after finding out how they got in. You need to make sure if you have a rat or a mouse. We got the tree/Norway rats in the garage this past winter. They were coming in the dryer exhaust from the garage to outside and chewed a hole through the vent tube to the dryer! They have chewed all the lines in peoples cars around here and got inside the car and chewed the seats. Fortunately not ours.

FYI: A piece of Fig Newtons smushed over the bait hook works great.

ETA: If they will stay outside and just feed the coyotes, I am willing to leave them alone. They chewed up all kinds of stuff in the garage that had to be throwed away.

Where did you see that board thing jasdip? I can't imagine any reputable place would have an IRB that would allow that kind of experiment. Is that what you're talking about, an experiment?

Regardless, it's probably why we're going the way of IPS cells. Those are harvested from humans, with their consent.

I can barely stand the sticky moth traps. Once i saw a live moth stuck in one so i quickly squished it. The sticky traps for mice are horrible. I can’t deal with snap traps, either. I’ve used poison. Fortunately, mice are not a big problem for me.

Alisande, good that England has banned those nasty glue traps.

We use snap trap and electric traps. Sometime the e traps fail or give false ’caught’ signal.

Will they outlaw cats next?

Amylou, I could almost accept professional pest controllers having sticky traps as one of their tools. But I definitely I don't like sticky traps being sold to every Tom, Dick, and Harry (how's that for sneaking in an out-of-date phrase) who's seen or suspected a mouse. Like my siblings -- there's no reason in the world that they couldn't have set a snap trap and dealt with their singleton mouse(s) that way. Hopefully I've shamed them enough that they really did throw away their torture sticks.

Function, maybe your mice are smarter than the average bear (another outdated phrase! I'm on a roll!). I totally agree with killing mice that come inside. And plugging up every hole they can squeeze through. And still, every few years one or two make their way in. Two years ago was the worst. I saw one come from under the sink. Set a trap, a few minutes later Snap! got it. Reset the trap just to be sure. A few minutes later, Snap! Got another one, this one noticeably smaller. Set the trap again ... snap snap .. over the course of one evening we killed mama and four babies. I'm sorry, mice, but no you cannot live in my house.

One time I did a snap trap and it didn't kill the mouse. I had no other choice but to drown it! Otherwise, it would have lingered. I sure as heck couldn't smash its head. What other choice is there for a lethally injured mouse. It was so awful. I just don't think I could have felt worse. 😭

I have absolutely zero sympathy for the scorpions we’ve caught.

A couple of points. The traps will be banned for sale to the public. Professional licensed pest controllers can still use them because they check them frequently and can dispatch any mice caught swiftly. And anyhow, they are not the first line of defence. That is blocking their ingress. Snap traps are still available so banning sticky traps is not the same as allowing mice free run of our homes. They just get killed quicker and suffer less.

And no, we have not outlawed cats. But we have banned declawing.....

What's the difference between a normal consumer buying sticky traps to rid themselves of mice and a pro coming to use the exact same device if the result is the same? When we had rats in our attic, our pest control guy used snap traps and sticky traps to get rid of them, because according to HIM, the pro, rodents get wise to one trap over the other if there are multiple. SO took out the sticky traps and shot them with BBs to kill them because otherwise they would have sat there until the guy came back to service the traps, which was every other day, not exactly "swift.". When snap traps malfunction it can be just as cruel. The difference between the two is the glue traps work better at catching them, but it is up to YOU to kill them yourself in order to be humane. There is no reason to be cruel and let it suffer on the trap. Just take the sticky trap out and kill the mouse/rat. If you do not have the stomach for it, I guess its okay to frown upon people who do. But sometimes to get the job done you just have to suck it up. And I do not feel bad about George or any other cat killing them in whatever way they see fit. We live out in a wooded area and he and some of the ferals that pass through kill several a week. I do not feel bad about snakes suffocating or biting and killing them to eat them. They are NASTY and destructive and have no place in anyones home. And the fact is, there is almost NEVER just one mouse or rat in your home. If one found its way in, you can pretty much bet on more. What's next? No fly swatters or bug spray allowed because the bug may suffer a little?

I do not respect all living things, though I cannot say I wish for any of them to suffer, sometimes it happens, especially if one is not willing to get their hands dirty, so to speak.. I use flea and tick medications on my animals. I do not respect fleas and ticks, even though they are living things, and do not care if they are uncomfortable when they die after trying to feast on my pets. I do not respect rats and mice, they bring disease and filth, not to mention other undesirable creatures like snakes around. They have to go. There have been wild hogs on my property before. They are DANGEROUS and destructive, and had to be dealt with, sometimes with not nice methods, e.i traps, even though they were dispatched as quickly as possible by professionals. You do what you have to do.

I keep those sticky rat traps in the basement to kill insects. I will have to stock up! I have not had any mice or rats in my house...knock on wood....

What a Sticky Topic..........!

No mice here, not now anyways. Our last house mouse was actually "caught" ~15 years ago by our electric stove. We starting noticing this rotten smell of death in the kitchen and finally with some time, patience, and super sleuthing I discovered it inside the electrical control panel on the stove top. It was fried, not baked. That was a fun job in do-it-yourself dismantling and removal.......never have used glue traps, just snappers in the past.

(amylou said): The difference between the two is the glue traps work better at catching them, but it is up to YOU to kill them yourself in order to be humane.

I can agree with that! The shame is, you can't count on every member of the general public to be humane. Same as you can't count on every professional pest controller to do their job humanely. And sometimes a snap trap doesn't hit the mouse square on to kill it immediately. But all that doesn't mean we should not try to do better. Stop the mindless torture, such as my very own siblings were carelessly doing because the glue death-sticks were sold right beside the snap traps.

"And anyhow, they are not the first line of defence (sic, defense in N America). That is blocking their ingress."

This is the truth of the matter.

I have mixed feelings about reasonable anti-pest alternatives. I am against the use of poisons where, for example, a poisoned carcass could cause danger to a bird or cat or other animal. But discussions about other things I think is pointless. Those who consider pests to be warm and cuddly things like their childhood stuffed animals miss the point but I do know that self-mutilation can be part of glue traps too. No good answer. Not every hit with a snap trap is a lethal one and animals can be trapped (a la a glue trap) to suffer a slow death.

As far as the use of animals in biomedical research, I think widely varying practices (from good to terrible) for too long have been reined in and are now much better. Laboratory animals are, like animals raised for food, working animals entitled to dignity and respectful, ethical treatment but those objectives do not preclude their use as working animals or ultimately being put to death humanely. Most (perhaps all) research institutions that use animals have rigid rules of conduct in place to prescribe proper treatment. With lab as with food animals, they're bred and produced to do the job, so their lives were never destined for any other existence.

Putting a suffering animal out of its misery is a difficult, upsetting task, but sometimes we're faced with it. When I encountered a deer on the road, still alive but with legs crushed by a car, I called someone who came quickly to shoot it.

Years ago a bird flew into the side of my car. I pulled over and found it very much alive but lying down with its beak completely sheared off. I tearfully apologized to the bird, placed a flat rock on it, and stomped down hard. I've done the same thing, twice, with mice I've found alive, backs broken, in snap traps. It helps that I live in the country and can do this privately, with unlimited access to rocks. It still makes me sad, but there's some comfort in the knowledge that I did the most humane thing I knew to do, and it was quick.

Hopefully you can fill all the holes in your home. A mouse can fit thru a hole the width of a pencil. A mouse can chew a hole through wood or vinyl siding or your rubber door seal with its sharp teeth, making new holes. I've seen a mouse run through a door just opened by a person and they didn't even see it. (Sorry, I can't get rid of the bold print).

Mice carry to name a few hantavirus, salmonella, lymphocytic choriomeningitis and hemorrhagic fever and indirectly transmit many other diseases. Ticks are only the transportation vehicle for lymes and colorado tick fever, the source is the mice.

Tell my 49 year old neighbor that a mouse can't suffer for a few hour in a sticky trap, that it is inhuman. Oh ya, you can't, she died last week due to Neuro Lymes disease . After being confined to a wheelchair and hospital bed. Why not tell her husband, kids, and grandkids about the suffering of the poor little mouse is more important than her suffering. Or my husband debilitating suffering with chronic Lymes for over 10 years is less important than a mouse suffering. Why do you think restaurants are shut down by the health dept if they find mice or rats? Think about the next time your kid sets a PB sandwich down on the counter or the plate from your cabinet that a mice contaminated with salmonella or worse during the night because you couldn't humanly catch the mouse. Then tell me how immoral sticky traps are when your setting in the hospital with them.

If snap traps worked better than sticky traps I would use them, but in my and others experience they don't. No, I haven't seen a mouse alive on a sticky trap. Mice are nocturnal, I'm not. If I did I would kill it and feel no guilt. As I said before if you don't like sticky traps, fine. But just because you don't like them doesn't mean I shouldn't like them.

arkansas girl, one unexpected bonuses of the sticky traps I've found is centipedes love them. Too bad ants aren't attracted to them also.

Do those sticky things work for bed bugs?

Glad I don't have any.

When I was young we used to get "fly trap"s, a long, narrow strip of paper coated both sides with sticky that came rolled up into a smsll cardboard tube, which one pulled and hung from the ceiling of the kitchen to hang down in a spiral about 18 inches ... and caught dozens of flies (plus some moths).

o j

Apparently, the law will take two years to become effective. There is an interesting addition, where if someone sees a glue trap but was not the one who set it, unless they have good reason (e.g., it would cause a trespass) they must disable it.