Stick, Stick, Sticky Boards...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
July 20, 2009 9:47am CST
Years ago my Mom showed me a new product she was using…their called sticky boards. The way they work is you take this little plastic tray (or box) filled with super, super sticky glue and you put it in an area where you have ants, roaches, mice, flies, ect. The insects or rodents become stuck to it and die. You throw the board out and put a new one. Now I’ve used them before for roaches but never for mice. My Mom used them for mice and got a baby one stuck on it. I sat out in the yard crying and trying to pry the poor little thing off. See, when it gets stuck, it doesn’t die…at least not right away. It slowly starves to death while stuck there. Personally I think that is downright cruel. I’d rather put a trap down and have them killed instantly then let them suffer that way. Thankfully we don’t need anything like that where we live now b/c we have no insects or rodents.
Have you ever used sticky boards? Do you think their humane or cruel? How do you think the poor bug or mouse feels sitting there slowly starving to death?
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25 responses
@anniefannie (1737)
• United States
22 Jul 09
no i have never used these sticky boards and no i never would i can't stand to see the mice suffer either even if they are a pest
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
21 Jul 09
I've used those sticky boards before, and I didn't like them either, half the time they didn't work, I would just get bugs on them. I think I did get a mouse one time and I couldn't get it off either, I had to throw the whole thing away, it was awful. I think I'd rather use traps too that way they don't suffer. Most people would probably say they are more humane than traps are, but I'm not so sure on that.
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I have used the sicky boards before, I don't like them. I agree they are cruel, once I heard the mice crying for their lives I quit using them. I know of people who do use them, they will thunk the mouse in the head or drown them in a toilet. I will use them for bugs if needed. I don't feel sorry for fleas or roaches.
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@kykidd (6812)
• United States
4 Aug 09
I have only recently discovered these, well not too long ago. I had some big chunks of something in my basement, appeared to be bigger than a mouse would drop. So I was really paranoid. I bought some, and placed them in the basement, but I never did catch anything.
I didn't see the big droppings again either. I think, perhaps, there were just some mud clumps that came in out of the garage and were dropped off an old rag by the washer or something.
Thank goodness I didn't catch anything, because I couldn't imagine watching anything die that way. You are right, it does seem very inhumane.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
20 Jul 09
They are cruel! We used them in the kitchen area of the college and the poor rodents never knew what was what. Sometimes the barely got their foot stuck and they would chew off their own foot just to get away. they are awful. Traps are much better, they either get away free or they die instantly 
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@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
29 Jul 09
I think that those things are horrible. I have never used them. My brother uses some small ones in his window because he gets tons of spiders. I honestly don't give a crap about the spiders. The ones we have in our house are huge and like to leave lots of bite marks. There are few bugs I actually care about. My cat brought in a baby mouse a while ago and I stopped her from eating it, but unfortunately it got away from me and so it was loose in the house. My mom wanted to buy some sticky boards or the regular traps for them, but I convinced her to let me catch it myself. It was in our house for about 3-4 days. It was so sad I don't think it ate a thing the whole time. Anyways I finally ended up catching it in a 7-11 mug and set it free outside. It was so cute as it hopped away in the grass. It looked like a kangaroo or something. 
I do think that the regular mouse traps are much more humane than the sticky boards, but still I personally prefer not to kill them at all. I love animals way too much for that. Plus, cleaning them up would be gross.
I do think that the regular mouse traps are much more humane than the sticky boards, but still I personally prefer not to kill them at all. I love animals way too much for that. Plus, cleaning them up would be gross. 
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
9 Aug 09
I totally agree with you!! If someone is going to trap rodents and bugs, they need to do it in a more humane way that will kill the pest, the moment it's trapped. i could not imagine the cruelty of the sticy board, and I would never use anything like that myself. Give me a trap, or a bug zapper or something, anytime.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I don't mind the roach or fly ones. I am like you in that I just refuse to use that on a warm blooded animal like a mouse or rat. That is the same thing as torture to me.
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
20 Jul 09
inhumane.
i saw a gecko get caught in one of those (it was set for a mouse)..and
ants came.i won't get into detail,but i'll never use them.
i'd rather get one of those hava-heart things and release it elsewhere.
@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I know exactly what you're talking about. I use to work for Garden Center and I refused to sell these to people. I would never take them over to that section and would try to steer people to buy a more humane way of chasing the animals away instead with items that were unpleasant for them to smell. They even had a guillotine type contraption for moles. It was horrible. I wouldn't sell that either. The only time I ever used something like this was Fly Paper in our cabin when we were camping, that's it.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
20 Jul 09
Hey there,
I don't think I could use something like that. I am afraid of bugs and I just couldn't do it. We are having a problem with bugs right now and I hate it. I don't mind ants, while they are frustrating I can deal with ants. I hate seeing bugs though, they scare me and I just hate them.
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@celticeagle (158958)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Jul 09
I think anything inhumane is wrong. It is just that easy. This Sticky Board thing sounds terrible. I think the industry that takes care of such as rodents does things in not always the most humane way anyway. I had no idea there was anything like this on the market. Ugh!
@windymyre (210)
• United States
9 Aug 09
I've never thought of it that way! I've just always been grateful that we are the superior species & no one is setting out giant traps to catch us! ;) We did have to use the glue boards, as we call them, once at a place where I worked because we couldn't use chemicals. I don't recall that we caught any mice on the boards. I've seen the fly strips used for many years & never thought anything about it because flies are just nasty. I know we couldn't use the glue boards around our house because we have 8 newborn kittens that will be running around soon! Not that we have rodents to worry about anyway!
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
20 Jul 09
When I lived in Nebraska I had a mouse problem. I used mouse traps and a poison called bar bate that farmers used in their grainries. Here in The south It's palmetto bugs, huge cockroaches and an occasional stray fly. I could not use those sticky traps for mice but could and do for the bugs. put a sticky trap on the bottom of the deck doer for the flies and it works real well. I also keep an ear of field corn kin the kitchen for ants. Got the ear of corn idea from my ex's grandmother. It really does work.
@spicysweetie21 (2573)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I have never used one and don't think I would. I have no problem with it catching insects, but I don't have any insect problems so I wouldn't need one for it. But I wouldn't take the risk of a mouse getting stuck on it, I think it is very cruel and mean 
, right now I'm taking care of a pet mouse until I find it another home, I was going to throw my trash away, when I saw this woman and she had a little cage and was about to throw it in the trash, and I said "oh you shouldn't throw it out, you could give it to one of the animal shelter." And she said "We can't take care of the mouse anymore and don't want to just let it loose because it could invest someone elses house". So she was just going to throw the poor tiny mouse, trapped in a cage, into the trash 
. So I told her I would take it, and grabbed it out of her hands. I named him Mickey haha .
, right now I'm taking care of a pet mouse until I find it another home, I was going to throw my trash away, when I saw this woman and she had a little cage and was about to throw it in the trash, and I said "oh you shouldn't throw it out, you could give it to one of the animal shelter." And she said "We can't take care of the mouse anymore and don't want to just let it loose because it could invest someone elses house". So she was just going to throw the poor tiny mouse, trapped in a cage, into the trash . So I told her I would take it, and grabbed it out of her hands. I named him Mickey haha .
@Barbietre (1438)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I tried that for mice once and reacted the same. Bugs are different, they are real pests, mice come into a house for a reason, cold, too much water in ground and so on.I would rather catch and release, but not being able to do that easliy, I would rather use the regular snap traps, it kills them quick.
@suzzy3 (8342)
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20 Jul 09
I did try the fly sheets indoors they had sticky bits on ,but beleave it or not nothing ever stuck to it,what a waste of money that was.So I buy spray for indoors ,we use traps in our sheds for mice as they can be a problem eating our chairs ect.I could never see a baby mouse stuck like that ,how awful.If we have to kill anything it has to be quick without any pain suffered.The trouble is we live in the countryside and if it rains mice and rats come up from the river to dry land and if we did nothing we would have them running wild through our property and house.
@sweetashoney (3594)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I have never used them, I have always used mouse traps or d-con. I have seen my son use them at his house though. The first time that I seen one of them, I didn't know what to think. My son was walking through the room carrying a mouse stuck on a strip, he started telling me about this new thing that catches mice. I was like everyone here, the first thing I asked was, what do you do with them after they get stuck? He told me that he just takes them outside and knocks them in the head. This is something I just couldn't do, of course he deer hunts so I know killing a little mouse wouldn't bother him. So I guess there are two different things you can do if you use these things, you can let them starve or you can kill them yourself. But yes I do think this is a cruel way to get rid of rodents in your house, some people fill the same way about mouse traps and d-con but you got to use something.
@Shery32 (423)
• Saudi Arabia
20 Jul 09
AWW, Not very nice picture - I really dont know but it might be the only way sometimes to catch these things!!! OMG I never thought of this but it not this better than having them all over your things, food...etc?! it might be even safer than using any Insecticide as it might affect your health without you knowing or noticing.
P.S. You can check and kill it when the thing catches it :P
