Ojai, which became the first American city to recognize the legal rights of nonhuman animals last September, believes that glue traps, which are primarily used to trap and kill rodents, can pose a risk for species that the traps are not intended for.
I'm not supportive of a law, but I have seen some pretty ugly messes caused by catching non-target animals in glue traps and I don't use them myself.
ReplyDeleteI moved into a house that had been vacant awhile and tehre were 5 or 6 glue traps in the garage for mice. No mice caught, but there were tiny skinks (harmless lizards) and both Ringneck & Garter Snakes (both harmless) tangled up in the glue and starved to death. Tough way to go.
A little vegetable oil can be used to free up most small critters like reptiles if you find them in time, although a bird would have their feathers ruined and likely be flightless/helpless and therefore doomed.
Ed
With everything else going on out there this is what they're worried about in California? Sounds like they need a little focus.
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Now there’s an image I never wanted in my brain.
DeleteMemo for Jan. 2025 - glue traps' role in mass deportation project, check.
ReplyDeleteI caught 2 groundhogs in 2 leg traps next to each other. Poor bastards killed each other
ReplyDeleteNonhuman animals? They're worried about Antifa?
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Simians
DeleteAnimals chew their own legs off to get free. If you want them dead, there are far more humane ways of doing it.
ReplyDeleteLike towns all across America, the socialists move in, attain critical mass, then proceed to inane and stupid worthy of headlines.
ReplyDeleteOrder them online and let Amazon bypass those nanny state laws….:))
ReplyDeleteI have some of the Ketch-All wind up traps that sweep the mice into a holding area. When freshly wound tight sometimes only half the mouse makes it into the bin.
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Lived in Ojai in the mid 60's. Used to be a nice little town. Saw my first drug deal there. Couple of hippies with weed.
ReplyDeleteGlue traps are pretty inhumane. The spring traps are quick and effective.
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