Last weekend, a mother and her teenage children came into a wildlife center in San Francisco, distraught. An exterminator had suggested they use glue traps to deal with a rodent problem, but they weren’t prepared for what they would find: three tiny baby rats attached to the glue, struggling, screaming and very much alive.
“I will never do that again,” the woman told Irina Ozernoy, a volunteer at Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue , where the baby rats are now recovering.
Ozernoy said it’s common for people to show up at the center with rats or mice stuck in glue traps: Despite intending to catch the creatures, they didn’t realize how much suffering was involved…