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Post by amyinowasso on Jan 28, 2023 10:37:33 GMT -6
The Honey dog pawed a sticky mouse trap. We pulled the trap off sasquatch's paw, but she then walked on the carpet and left sticky crap stuck to it. Does anyone have a way to clean it off both dogs and carpets? I had a beagle get stuck on one years ago, it was a different brand and it pulled off easily. This is a black tray. It has an almost fluid sticky stuff on it. Obviously very effective. It was intentionally behind furniture, she shouldn't have been able to get to it.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jan 28, 2023 11:10:39 GMT -6
I don’t know if it will work, but you might try rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer if you have any around. I learned with my kids some years back that that’s a good way to deal with silly putty on carpet. That’s my only suggestion, and I have no idea if it will help with glue or not, but it shouldn’t hurt the carpet or the dog to test a spot (unless the dog opened up skin when pulling off the trap, of course).
I’m sorry you’re having to deal with that. I hope you find something that works.
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Post by amyinowasso on Jan 28, 2023 11:33:53 GMT -6
Thank you. I'll try it. My children never got silly putty, but they went through a stage where they would put Elmer's glue on their hands or other surfaces and pull it off when dry. I believe there is still glue in THAT carpet.
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Post by woodeye on Jan 28, 2023 12:28:05 GMT -6
Acetone is good to use for stubborn stuff like that too. Just don't let Sasquatch, or yourself, sniff the fumes too long, then wash her paw with soap and water after the acetone has been used... I've used it lots of times and it feels real cold when poured out of the bottle onto a cloth, but it didn't harm the skin on my hands or fingers. Just wash with soap and water when you are done.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Jan 28, 2023 16:52:56 GMT -6
Yeah, my list of go-tos are in order of difficulty from least to worst:
Tide Nail Polish Remover Goo Gone Acetone (pure) Gasoline
I’m with woodeye on the acetone. I’d jump straight to it. My kids and all their craft projects and my son recently elevating to gorilla glue. Yeah, I have a can of acetone around somewhere. Ha
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Post by hmoosek on Jan 28, 2023 17:16:19 GMT -6
Yes, acetone should work. Like was already said though. Make double sure you get it t off your and their skin by the washing and rinsing well. Last Month, Mom’s kitty got intoone of those sticky traps. We got it off, but kitty gave me the stinkeye for the rest of the afternoon noon. Hahahaa
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 29, 2023 21:35:46 GMT -6
I just watched a video that says mineral oil, baby oil, or WD-40 will work as a solvent to dissolve most sticky trap glues.That's very good information to have. I'm glad amyinowasso asked that question, now I'll know the answer if ever anyone gets into a sticky trap around here again.
I say "Again", because some years back (about 25 or 30 years ago) I brought a sticky trap home from work and used it on my Brother-in-Law.
I was head of maintenance over six prisons in the Northeast Region of the State of Oklahoma at the time. It was part of my job to try out new products in an attempt to control mice and rats on the various prison compounds. Often times, vendors of those products would give me samples to use on a trial basis.
This particular Brother-in-Law is about 23 years younger than I am and was more like one of my own kids than a Brother-in-Law. In fact, he and my oldest son were both born the same year. As a result of the huge difference in our ages, I often times ended up babysitting him along with my own three boys.
Because the boys were so close in age, they were always horsing around. He and my boys were very close and hung out together at our house a lot.
In prison, there are no poisons, spring operated traps, or chemicals allowed, as any of those things could be used a weapon, so instead of rat poison, we used industrial grade sticky traps. The glue on those traps was about a quarter of an inch thick. They were designed to catch and hold giant pack rats, they were not your ordinary, run of the mill sticky traps.
At the time, my Brother-in-Law, whose name I will not use (to protect the guilty) God bless him; was about 14 or 15 years old. He, as many teenage boys do, had this annoying habit of lounging around the house in his boxers while wiping out the contents of the refrigerator, and busily watching TV or playing video games.
I had three boys of my own at the time and any time the four of them got together there were basically perpetual wrestle-mania grudge matches going on around the clock. As a result, there were perpetual messes to be cleaned up whenever I came home from work.
On this day in particular, the house was a spectacular wreck when I came home and there they were, all four of them, lounging around in the livingroom floor, playing video games in their boxers. I just happened to have a brand new, unopened, prison grade sticky trap in my truck ...
The duplicitous gears in my head quickly began turning as I sneaked back out to the truck to retrieve said sticky trap.
Herein enter theme music from the movie, "Jaws" ♪ ♪ as I return to the house, unwrapping the sticky trap, while slipping through the side door ... there they were, four hapless victims, engrossed in whatever dumb video game they happened to have activated that day.
Picture me, sneaking up on them, glue trap in hand, executing my newly devised plan with a vengeance. I paused for a moment, to lay the protective wax paper cover aside, then, like a marauding Apache, I swept down on them with a war-whoop, grasping the waistband of the first pair of boxers I came across with one hand and slapping the sticky trap firmly in place with the other. The first pair a boxers just happened to be my Brother-in-law!
BULLSEYE!
Little did we know at the time that there was no solvent known to man that could even make a dent in the industrial strength compound used to make that thing! The boys tugged at the sticky trap with all eight hands; stretching his poor bun skins like a cartoon Wiley Coyote after stepping in a giant wad of bubble gum. We used fingernail polish remover, we used alcohol, we used gasoline, we used tweezers ...
Nothing seemed to work. That sticky trap had him like tar baby had brer rabbit. (If only there had been a feather pillow nearby).
We finally just had to cover his entire butt in a layer of Vaseline and leave the sticky stuff that the rat trap was made of to wear off on its own, over time.
Too bad we didn't know about the mineral oil tick back then. I'll have to forward this to him, just for old time's sake. He's close to 40 years old now, but I'll bet he still remembers.
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Post by woodeye on Jan 30, 2023 6:32:00 GMT -6
That's hilarious, heavyhittersticker, I mean heavyhitterokra. That's a great way to stick to the subject, so to speak...
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Post by macmex on Jan 30, 2023 8:06:41 GMT -6
Oh my! I'd be afraid of ... revenge!
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Post by amyinowasso on Jan 30, 2023 10:43:42 GMT -6
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Post by hmoosek on Jan 30, 2023 11:11:23 GMT -6
Speaking from experience, ya gotta keep alcohol far, far away from your bum bum. When I was around 12,I slid under a barb wire fence, I ripped my back pretty good from shoulder down. Step pop thought it’d be funny to pour alcohol down my back. I think he poured most of the bottle. Yikes! That stuff ran down my back and into said areas! Good grief that stuff lit me up like a Christmas Tree! I forgot all about my back stinging!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 25, 2023 10:40:32 GMT -6
I got a good laugh this morning, reading over these old sticky trap threads again! Hmoosek, your comment still cracks me up!
The reason I'm writing is that we've trapped two pets with sticky traps here over the past 30 days. Both times, Vaseline got them free quite effectively.
The first victim was our cockatiel, Pretty Boy. He climbed under our Hoosier cabinet to get a closeup inspection of a bug and nearly bought the farm before I found him. I coated the sticky trap in Vaseline, then used a heavy pair of quilting shears to cut most of the sticky trap away from bird, then having already coated my hands in Vaseline, I started slipping my fingers between the bird and the sticky trap, oiling him up as I worked his wings loose from the adhesive. Finally, after several minutes I got him freed. (I'm pretty sure mineral oil or baby oil would have worked better and faster, but I couldn't find any). Thank goodness I used to work construction, so I had an old crusty jar of Vaseline in the boot closet for wet winter days.
Victim #2 was much more fortunate and a lot more comical to watch. Victim #2 was Ranger, our 9-month-old beagle pup. Ranger got his sticky trap from behind the hot water tank, from inside the heater closet while I had the door open, changing filters. First, he sniffed the sticky trap and got it stuck to his upper lip, then he backed up, shook his head, and got said trap stuck on the side of the hot water tank. As if that were not trouble enough, he put his paw in it while trying to pull his lip off the side of the hot water tank. Within about 2 seconds, he had his lip and his paw both securely attached to the side of the hot water tank.
Once again, Vaseline saved the day!
The sticky trap after Pretty Boy got loose from it.
Ranger cooling his heels after the hot water tank experience.Pretty Boy, being himself after the sticky trap incident. (Minus a lot of feathers, but still cocky as ever).
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