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weve had a daddy long legs problem in my home office, so i bought glue traps for those and any other creepy crawlers (not mice). The bottom part of the desk has a cabinet and theres a couple inches clearance, height-wise, between it and the floor-and its about 2 feet wide, so months ago i slid 2 of those flat paper glue traps under there-no one can access that space but bugs.
So im cleaning just now and i pull them out & theres a few spiders stuck to it so i decide to toss it and put new ones. Im about to pick it up by the non-glue edge when i see something that looks like a brown recluse, so i pause & look closer-and here comes Honeybun. I say "Honey bun NO" bc shes walking towards ghe trap laying on the ground, but instead of turning around and going somewhere else she takes this to mean she should speed up, and she trots right on the glue traps
Cue hissing and trying to get away, me trying to figure out what to do-do i grab the board? Try to pick her up? I reach for her and try to grab the board but shes too freaked out and pulls out of my grip. She runs across the room turning and hissing at the trap & i hate to say it but i panic and call for my roomate to come. This glue is CRAZY strong-if i stick the paper glue side down to a door, i CANT pull it off. Maybe a few pieces thats it.
She runs under the kitchen table, i hear more hissing and commotion, we both grt over there-and the glue trap is stuck to the table leg and not on the kitty anymore.
I was SOO relieved. I wanted to just scoop her up and hug her but i know better, so i cleaned up and ignored her, and 10 mins later she wandered over to me wanting cuddles, which she got.
I looked her over & she seems no worse for wear, i dont even see any bald patches even tho there was a ton of cat hair on the sticky pad.
Kind of disappointed with myself for panicking :/ it just all happened so fast-i saw her, sad NO loudly-and she ran right on the traps. If you use them, please make sure your pets cant get to them, especially when taking them out and putting new ones-it literally only takes a second.
So im cleaning just now and i pull them out & theres a few spiders stuck to it so i decide to toss it and put new ones. Im about to pick it up by the non-glue edge when i see something that looks like a brown recluse, so i pause & look closer-and here comes Honeybun. I say "Honey bun NO" bc shes walking towards ghe trap laying on the ground, but instead of turning around and going somewhere else she takes this to mean she should speed up, and she trots right on the glue traps
Cue hissing and trying to get away, me trying to figure out what to do-do i grab the board? Try to pick her up? I reach for her and try to grab the board but shes too freaked out and pulls out of my grip. She runs across the room turning and hissing at the trap & i hate to say it but i panic and call for my roomate to come. This glue is CRAZY strong-if i stick the paper glue side down to a door, i CANT pull it off. Maybe a few pieces thats it.
She runs under the kitchen table, i hear more hissing and commotion, we both grt over there-and the glue trap is stuck to the table leg and not on the kitty anymore.
I was SOO relieved. I wanted to just scoop her up and hug her but i know better, so i cleaned up and ignored her, and 10 mins later she wandered over to me wanting cuddles, which she got.
I looked her over & she seems no worse for wear, i dont even see any bald patches even tho there was a ton of cat hair on the sticky pad.
Kind of disappointed with myself for panicking :/ it just all happened so fast-i saw her, sad NO loudly-and she ran right on the traps. If you use them, please make sure your pets cant get to them, especially when taking them out and putting new ones-it literally only takes a second.