Conventional pest control methods including glue traps and rodenticides cause significant suffering to target animals.
Conventional rodent pest control involves methods that cause prolonged suffering with minimal welfare consideration. Glue traps cause some of the most severe welfare outcomes of any pest control method, as trapped animals struggle until exhausted and die over 24-72 hours. Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides cause a slow death from internal bleeding over several days. Welfare-positive alternatives including exclusion, snap traps with rapid death, and first-generation rodenticides are available and effective.