Glue trap is a slow killer and should be banned

ONE of the most inhumane animal traps ever devised has recently been flooding into the Irish market.

Available in discount stores and hardware shops all around the country, the rat and mouse glue trap aims not to kill its victims outright but to catch them in a sticky base where they will suffer a slow, lingering death.

Veterinary surgeons who have condemned the traps have detailed how "there is much suffering by the entrapped animals it is not a sudden or merciful death, but one brought on by starvation and thirst."