How to Free Mice From Glue Traps
Glue traps are small boards with sticky adhesive. The trap is designed to capture any mice that run over it. Mice are unable to get free because the adhesive is strong and gets stuck to their feet, fur and other extremities. If you want to humanely remove the mouse from a glue trap, it's important to use extreme care and the proper tools.
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Instructions
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Pour baby oil over the glue board, especially around the mouse. Be careful not to get baby oil into the mouse's eyes.
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Allow the baby oil to work its way into the adhesive for five minutes. It takes away the glue's stickiness.
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Put protective gloves on, and gently try to pry the mouse off. If the mouse is stuck at all, don't pull it off.
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Pour more baby oil around the mouse's body, and gently push a cotton swab under the mouse to get it off. Be extremely gentle as to not cause any more pain to the mouse.
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Take the glue board and mouse to a veterinarian if your methods prove unsuccessful.
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mousedoc
Oct 07, 2010
Glad I found this site. The maintenance guy came by today to fix something, and I noticed he had a mouse laying in his golf cart - still perfectly alive, but immobile. I had never seen a glue trap before. I asked the maintenance guy what he was going to do with it, and he said he was going to throw it in the trash. I would rather the guy just kill it rather than let it suffer for hours or days in pain, starvation and thirst in a dumpster. But he said he just couldn't bring himself to kill it. He asked me if I wanted it. I had no clue what to do with it, but trying anything was better than nothing. I gently pried it free from the glue with a small stick, trying to get as much glue off him as I could, dangled his mouth in the creek water a little to give him a drink, then set him under a rock shelter next to the creek. He didn't look like he could move very far because the...
