Comments on: Protecting Rodent Families– Humane or Insane?

By: GavinM

GavinM — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:09:12 +0000

It's a relief you think that way. When I hear “glue trap”, I usually assume the worst.

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By: dcentric

dcentric — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:53:34 +0000

Well, in the case to which you are referring, we couldn't find the glue trap…until we smelled it. That's hardly unique; not being able to locate a trap happens quite frequently. Please don't assume that I didn't try to do something. We did put the one pictured out of its misery. The whole process was unnecessarily cruel and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

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By: GavinM

GavinM — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:11:39 +0000

You'll find that mice and rats are actually exempt under these proposed laws. Every animal deserves a quick dispatch – to torture an animal to death on any trap *should* be illegal anyway.

Glue traps should be banned anyway. They are horrible. It shouldn't be legal to stuck small mammals on glue, and let them starve to death (that is assuming they don't die from the physical trauma of pulling/biting their limbs off first). And if you did hear them squeak and scream, then why didn't you just put them out of their misery? You don't have to hear that “until they die”, you could do something about it you know?

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By: dcentric

dcentric — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:19:13 +0000

No worries about being a NOVA-ite. While the blog is DCentric, we're still neighbors and for all I know, you may work in DC.

SIX groundhogs! My goodness. What a story. So glad you commented.

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By: TheGoriWife

TheGoriWife — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:11:10 +0000

I'm a NOVA-ite, so my comment is totally useless here. But! I had six (SIX!) groundhogs living under my front porch this spring and I trapped one, hoping to relocate them one by one to somewhere that was not under my porch. I called FFX Co. animal control only to be told it's against the law to disturb the habitat of a wild animal. No moving. And they wouldn't come out to do anything about it either, since it wasn't a dangerous animal. My ONLY legal choice was to cart them down myself to their shelter, and pay $25 each to have them euthanized. (Six of them!) I couldn't catch them all before the babies were weaned so now my neighbors will probably have the same problem come next spring.

Anyway. Not about DC, but I feel the pain of stupid municipality thinking about pests.

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