Something I hadn't thought of...

We were eating breakfast this morning when the shelter called and asked if we could make an emergency transport of a bird to the Bird Rehab Center in Wilmer, TX.  They didn't say what it was.

When we got there, it was a female mockingbird who had gotten trapped on a sticky trap.  You know, the kind you lay down for mice (or bugs), the mouse wanders onto it, and it's so sticky, it can't get free.  I don't know how long she had been on the trap, but long enough to lay an egg.  She had her tail, one leg, and one wing caught, and the shelter personnel knew it wasn't something they could fix.

So, we took the poor little girl over to the rehab center, and they actually had her off the trap in less than 30 seconds after we got there.  They said it's not unusual.  They know exactly how to cut the glue off the trap, then remove the glue from the bird.  She wasn't injured, so she'll probably be released in a few days.

I don't know who puts sticky traps outdoors, but shame on them!

Oh, poor baby! I'm glad you were there to get her help. Why would anyone put sticky traps outside. I can understand maybe in basements or somewhere in side, but outside? That makes no sense. I'm glad they knew what to do to free her and she's ok. 

Those sticky traps are torture devices . I wish they would stop selling them.

 A few years ago, when Maia was a tot, my roommate at the time had his family come and stay with him for 2 weeks, mother, sister and her husband and 2 kids, in a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan. When we came back there was mouse **** every where, even holes dug in my indoor plants! These people were slobs, in just 2 weeks an apartment that was mouse free was infested to the point of them putting out glue traps and snap traps, one for rats, out and not telling me they were there! I was so freaked when I found fresh glue traps under the stove that Maia could have easily reached, a rat snap trap under the couch that could have snapped her neck! I freaked!

OMG, Mike, I honestly have never heard of "sticky" traps before :dk: Not sure why and feel a bit dumb about that, but that IS total torture I am glad that the Mockingbird survived and will be alright.

Poor bird. Thank you for helping her! Any idea what they used to get the glue off?