Yeah my mum used to keep these kinds of traps in her greenhouse when I was a teenager during a summer downpour a bird flew in and hit one of these traps, Of course my mum is a notorious coward on many fronts and left me to deal with it.
The injuries these things inflict to small birds are absoultely appalling the damage they do to the feathers alone is extreme not to mention the tearing of the skin and the glue is completely unremovable from human skin alone let alone bird feathers.
I tried to help the poor thing as best as I could and while I was able to extricate the bird I couldn’t get the glue off or treat the severe injuries it suffered after several hours of teenage me trying to treat it I had to euthanize it. Not a good memory.
I don’t know how they arn’t banned even for control of rat populations. I swear as a species we use the most horrendously inhumane methods of execution in all systematic methods of control.
Seriously? Poison & Glue? Just shoot the poor critter, Or get a dog to snap it’s neck.
Tip to anybody that comes across one of these with any animal trapped in it, bird OR rat, you can use oil to release them. Cooking or mineral oil are two good options, using a cotton swab, kitchen towel or your fingers to apply it around the stuck areas, being careful to avoid the eyes and airways.
The Twits are real it would seem. Roald Dahl jokes in poor taste aside this is quiet a sad state of affairs.
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Yeah my mum used to keep these kinds of traps in her greenhouse when I was a teenager during a summer downpour a bird flew in and hit one of these traps, Of course my mum is a notorious coward on many fronts and left me to deal with it.
The injuries these things inflict to small birds are absoultely appalling the damage they do to the feathers alone is extreme not to mention the tearing of the skin and the glue is completely unremovable from human skin alone let alone bird feathers.
I tried to help the poor thing as best as I could and while I was able to extricate the bird I couldn’t get the glue off or treat the severe injuries it suffered after several hours of teenage me trying to treat it I had to euthanize it. Not a good memory.
I don’t know how they arn’t banned even for control of rat populations. I swear as a species we use the most horrendously inhumane methods of execution in all systematic methods of control.
Seriously? Poison & Glue? Just shoot the poor critter, Or get a dog to snap it’s neck.
Tip to anybody that comes across one of these with any animal trapped in it, bird OR rat, you can use oil to release them. Cooking or mineral oil are two good options, using a cotton swab, kitchen towel or your fingers to apply it around the stuck areas, being careful to avoid the eyes and airways.
The Twits are real it would seem. Roald Dahl jokes in poor taste aside this is quiet a sad state of affairs.