A stray kitten in California’s Bay Area ended up stuck in a glue trap, and thanks to quick and creative thinking on behalf of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, the young feline is safe and in foster care until he finds his forever home.
The department received a call about the distressed and injured kitten over the weekend, and when officers arrived at the scene, they were at a loss. Thankfully, emergency dispatcher Doris Ingols suggested using vegetable oil on the kittens fur to separate him from the adhesive, and it was a success!
The homeless kitten was taken to the shelter affiliated with animal services, and Ingols, who volunteers at a rescue, decided to foster the youngster until he’s healthy and ready for his forever home.
Glue traps are an incredibly painful and ineffective way to deal with rodent or insect problems. Once an animal is stuck, they rarely escape and often injure themselves trying. They meet horrifying ends, suffocating if their mouth is stuck on the glue or dying as a result starvation, dehydration, or bleeding to death after gnawing off their own limbs. Birds, pets, and wildlife are susceptible to these traps and meet the same excruciating death.
There are many humane options available for ridding unwanted critters from your home, like box traps that allow for relocation and release and safe chemicals that ward them off through scent.
We are so glad this kitten found the help he needed and got a second chance at life as a result of the care and dedication of the entire department. Thank you Alameda County Sheriff’s Department for your kindness and compassion and for helping and saving every life, no matter how tiny!
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A very big thank you!
Yes that’s exactly the point that needs to be raised. Glue traps. These are outlawed in most of the developed world; however, they are still legal in Canada and the US.
If you have never heard a mouse scream, I have news for you, they do scream. They scream in agony until they die in a glue trap, with its skin torn everywhere. It’s a slow, horrific death. Glue traps need to be outlawed world-wide.
High-pitched noise plug-ins work very well at keeping mice outdoors if you really have a concern.
We on the other hand have decided to let the mice who get in in the fall stay in our cellar over the winters by providing food and water right next to a bedding, in our case a little Ikea shag rug and an open Kleenex box so the mice can make comfy beds in the rug.
Each spring, on a nice, warm afternoon, we gently and quietly swoop up the rug into an old quilt cover and carry it up to our huge park where we unroll the rug and the mice are happy to go free 🙂 By providing food and water and a bed in one spot ensures the little ones won’t come into your kitchen cupboards. They will choose the path of least resistance, and you won’t see them at all until you release them in the spring.
Thanku Alameda County Sheriff’s Dept. 🐱🐈🐾❤❤
Why is it so hard to make glue traps illegal for any animal or insect there CRUEL slow TORTURE. Manufacturers keep making them stores keep selling them people and business keep buying them. WHY ?
Not the first time I’ve heard of little kittens crawling into one of the things. Glue traps should be banned forever.
Kittens, birds, reptiles – all sorts of small animals, including mice, suffer and die in horrible ways.
Doris Ingols is a genius, and an angel.
I wonder what she’s going to call this little one.
Thank you to everyone who rescued this sweet little kitty <3
Doris Ingols suggested using vegetable oil on the kittens fur to separate him from the adhesive, and it was a success!Thank you Alameda County Sheriff’s Department for your kindness and compassion and for helping and saving every life, no matter how tiny!
Doris I think you have a new baby 🙂
Stop playing with these evil savage barbarians. Feed them to crocs sharks or lions. That WILL put an end to all animal abuse once and for all!!!!
DORIS INGOLS… ♥♥♥
THANK YOU —- you’re the best
There is a petition to ban the use of glue traps Please SIGN and SHARE https://www.change.org/p/the-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs-defra-ban-cruel-glue-traps-in-the-uk?use_react=false
signed… thanks for sharing it. I always put little notes on these when I see them in stores begging people not to buy them. I put the same signs on veal in the grocery stores.
THANK YOU FOR SAVING THIS KITTEN
I have been preaching against glue traps for years. Everyone sells them, in spite of the cruelty involved.
every time I see these in a store I put a note on them asking people not to buy them because they are cruel to any animal or bird that gets stuck. I also put notes on veal when I see it in the grocery store.
My father worked in a company that used clue trap in the warehouse. I had no idea what they were and was as horrified as my father. We got them to remove those nasty devices, and they found a cat that took care of the rodent problem..
Who comes up with this crap, anyway?
freaks who enjoy animal abuse.
THOSE DAM GLUE TRAPS NEED TO BE BANNED,EVERY STORE THAT SELLS THEM ARE INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING SUFFERING TO INNOCENT ANIMALS AND BIRDS >:(
Please sign and share the petition https://www.change.org/p/the-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs-defra-ban-cruel-glue-traps-in-the-uk?use_react=false
You will meet your maker awful people
Animal abusers have their own karma!
These animal abuses are horrific.
Thank You for your quick thinking and action!
Thank you Doris and everyone els involved for your kindness.
All traps that can be left to allow animals to suffer should be federally banned – as a part of the federal animal abuse legislation. These traps include snap traps, snares, clamp traps, glue traps, etc. Humane traps (such as “have-a-heart”) must connect to smart devices to remind persons to check traps on a minimal basis.
It makes a pleasant change to read something nice, especially after reading nothing but evil caused by low-life beings.
Thank you lovely people for saving this little kittie. Glue traps should be banned!!
GloeTraps should be banned altogether!! There can be no excuse for tormenting animals!!
This is unacceptable.
I think glue traps should be banned. They are inhumane & anything that is caught in one suffers greatly before they die.
Thank you, Sheriff Ingols. Great suggestion to use vegetable oil. That is a tip we can all easily make use of.
Thank you, Sheriff Ingols. Great suggestion to use vegetable oil. That is a tip we can all easily make use of.
Thank you dispatcher Ingols, and all who were involved to save this precious baby
I’m very happy and glad you saved the baby your a great police officer Love you
Glue traps are cruel and kill many animals. They should be banned.
I love people who care.. those traps should be against the law. period. for any reason. you have to be sick to invent them, sick to sell them, sick to use them.
Yes Sandra you are 100% right. You would have to be sick to invent something like that right?
fact action did the deal
That is another thing that should be banned ,whats up with these people who invent this kind of stuff
Thank you
Thank you so much for your kindness. You touch my heart.
Why aren’t these horrible glue traps removed from the market?