Mouse Trap Commercial

Buggy-eyed CG mice meet their doom in this trap commercial:

Other products by the same manufacturer have use a cute cartoon mouse that is expressing his dread at being captured:

If I was shopping for a product that would help bring about the demise of an animal, I probably wouldn’t want the package or advertising to show a cute mouse character, but I suppose that somebody who wants to rid their house of an infestation won’t be so picky about packaging.

According to Wikipedia, sticky glue traps are thought to be non-lethal by some people, but animal rights groups find them to be inhumane:

Animals can be released from the glue by applying vegetable oil and gently working the animal free. This is deemed a compassionate rescue rather than a design feature of glue traps. Most animals trapped by these devices sustain severe injuries including severed limbs and torn skin caused during their attempts to escape. These types of traps are effective and non-toxic to humans.

Death is much slower than with the traditional type trap, which has prompted animal activists and welfare organisations such as PETA and the RSPCA to oppose the use of glue traps. Trapped mice eventually die from exposure, dehydration, starvation, suffocation, or predation, or are killed by people when the trap is checked. In some jurisdictions the use of glue traps is regulated: Victoria, Australia use of glue traps is restricted to commercial pest control operators and they must be used in accordance with conditions set by the Minister for Agriculture. Other jurisdictions have banned their use entirely; in Ireland it is illegal to import, possess, sell or offer for sale unauthorized traps, including glue traps. This law, the Wildlife (Amendment) Act was passed in 2000.

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grreen

Just get a cat; the mice won’t even enter the house then. So much easier.
Rob A

When I heard “Super 2×2″ I was hoping for some sort of mechanical steampunk-worthy gauntlet of rodent death…but it’s just sticky paper.
curiousetwofer

I am curious….

Which method does PETA actually prefer?

(1) traditional spring-loaded mouse traps that instantly break the mouse’s neck(killing it)

(2) mouse poison

(3) glue traps

(4) cats

(5) Japanese whaling ships

http://tepido.org LB

Not 4, that’s for sure, because that would involve enslaving an animal to serve humans, which is a big no-no for animal rights activists.

5 sounds efficient, an explosive harpoon would instantly kill the mouse, but it is also sure to make a mess of the tatami. Not to mention that your house would have to be close enough to the sea to allow the gunner to see into your living room and target the mouse.

vonskippy

We use bug-zapper type mouse traps. Mouse/rat goes in, steps on the metal plate holding the bait. ZZzzzzzzapppppppppptttt!

No more rodent, and it looks like it’s just taking a peaceful little nap inside the trap as it slides out into the trash bin.

Quite, clean, quick, and very easy (and no yuck factor) to clean up. And they work really well (mice don’t seem to see them as a danger). Only down side is once they’re triggered and have a dead mouse in them, they won’t work again until they’re emptied – and so the other mice get a free snack from the bait (as long as they don’t mind the mouse corpse next to it).

And unlike cats, the zapper trap doesn’t shred the drapes and shit all over the house.
gaijin

Now bureaucrats want to regulate how we can kill a rodent in our own house. I’ve often thought of bureaucrats and equated them to thieving mice so I guess it’s natural that they would try to come up with regulations as to how we should exterminate their brethren. I often use the sticky mouse traps. They work great it usually doesn’t kill the rat or mouse for a day or two but as soon as I find one squirming around I put it in a garbage back and drop a big rock on it. I don’t go out of my way to kill any living creatures but when they start moving into my house and multiplying it’s war and I don’t really how get rid of them as long as I can get rid of them. I don’t like the wire traps because they often squirt blood and brains all over. The electric zapper described above sounds quite nice as long it actually does shut of and doesn’t make my house smell like a smokery for vermin.
Level3

Right on curiousetwofer,

Is there a mousetrap that PETA actually claims is acceptable?
They do seem to be selling “humane mousetraps” that only capture, but not kill, so you can “release them outdoors” and they can just scurry right back into your home, or your neighbors’.

Or are we supposed to drive out to the woods and release our accumulated mice? Feeding them until we have a free Saturday?
But driving releases CO2! I guess we’re supposed to ride a bicycle 10km beyond the city limits in January to release the vermin.

Oh how complicated (and full of free time) the life of a PETA member must be.
ThyGoddess

So… Now we gotta worry about the wellbeing and suffering of the pests that spread disease and invade our homes?

I use humane mousetraps. Because of how many field mice they can catch and contain. Then I take the trap and drown the mice in a waterbucket. I wonder how they like THAT part. But all it does is make me a responsible neighbor. Don’t release the pests, control their population. Rats and mice are aplenty on this planet, folks.
BadWolf

That’s a nasty way to die.

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