Lowe's: Stop Making Excuses for Selling Torture October 20, 2009

What's wrong with glue traps?

For the animals who end up stuck in them, glue traps mean having their skin pulled off, while tangling for hours trying to free themselves—sometimes chewing their own legs and feet off in a desperate attempt to get out. It means sometimes being picked up, while they're still stuck to the glue, and being thrown in the trash, to linger for hours or sometimes days, in pain.

Companies like Lowe's still continue to make money off of selling these torture devices to consumers, and until now, were selling misleadingly labeled glue traps designed to make people believe that glue traps were somehow acceptable. The label stated that the glue trap contained a naturally occurring anesthetic called eugenol, implying that animals caught in the trap did not suffer or feel pain. In reality, they do suffer and feel extreme pain. PETA filed a complaint about this misleading label, and we have recently heard back that Motomco—the company who makes the glue traps that Lowe's sells—has removed the label.

Since Motomco's glue traps are the only brand that Lowe's sells—and Lowe's claims that it only sells glue traps that are "humane" because of eugenol—we hope that the change in Motomco's packaging will be the final push that Lowe's needs to pull glue traps from its shelves. Because it can no longer hide behind Motomco's misrepresentations, we've written to the home improvement company asking it to immediately rid its stores of the cruelest mouse traps on the market today.

Check out our brand new Lowe's: Lowe'st of the Low video and ask Lowe's to drop cruel glue traps now!