Victory! Dollar General No Longer Cashing in on Glue Traps October 23, 2009
Posted by Pulin Modi at October 23, 2009 3:56 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 29 ) | TrackBack
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After we received complaints that Dollar General, which has thousands of stores across the U.S., was selling hideously cruel glue traps, we wrote to the bargain retailer. In our letter, we described how animals who get stuck on glue traps can suffer for days before finally dying of starvation or dehydration. Many victims of glue traps rip their skin from their own faces and bodies as they try to escape, and some resort to chewing off their own limbs while trying to free themselves. We also let the company know that there are plenty of humane ways to deal with mice and rats.
Dollar General responded to our letter by announcing that it will stop selling glue traps. Just like that. The company reviewed the information we presented and simply made a compassionate decision. Isn't that awesome?!
Dollar General joins other large retailers, including Albertsons, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, and Safeway, that have stopped selling glue traps after discussions with PETA.
Please thank the company for its decision—and then ask the home-improvement chain Lowe's to stop selling glue traps!
Thank you so much for being such compassionate and dedicated individuals.
Lowe's: Stop Making Excuses for Selling Torture October 20, 2009
Posted by Rachel-O at October 20, 2009 12:06 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBack
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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!
Stay loud!Cobra Starship and a Mouse September 3, 2009
Posted by Marta at September 3, 2009 12:07 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBack
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There has been a hot mess making its way across the U.S. and luckily for me that hot mess was Cobra Starship, who stopped in DC for a show at the Rock and Roll Hotel. So the peta2 Street Team came out in full force talking with fans about the suffering of animals in labs for consumer products with the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts petition. It's crazy to think that millions of rats, mice, and rabbits this year will suffer in labs for lipstick, laundry detergent and other consumer products.
The show was awesome—Cobra Starship rocked the crowd and made the good girls go bad. Nicole even met Robby Reider, the bassist for Friday Night Boys.
After the show, Cobra Starship alerted us to a mouse caught in a glue trap in their dressing room. The mouse was struggling desperately to escape from the tray of sticky glue and everyone was worried about his safety. Animals in glue traps suffer greatly as they struggle to escape and die a slow painful death. Quickly Chrissy, one of the peta2 Road Warriors, remembered that oil can help free an animal from a glue trap. We talked with the staff and they were shocked to hear the facts about animals caught in glue traps. Glue traps are incredibly cruel pest-control devices where animals suffer for days before dying from starvation, dehydration, self-mutilation, and shock. Many animals break bones, rip off patches of fur and skin, and suffer other injuries struggling to escape the trap. The staff got oil to Chrissy right away. She carefully applied the oil around the mouse's legs and he worked his way free!
Chrissy is a Rock and Roll animal hero!
The Rock and Roll Hotel has accepted 6 Humane "Smart" Mousetraps from PETA to replace those cruel glue traps! So mad props to Cobra Starship for being friends to the animals, Chrissy for her quick thinking, and Rock and Roll Hotel for making a compassionate choice.
If you want to be a hero for animals, take action now against Lowe's which continues to sell glue traps even after being shown graphic photos and footage of animals caught in glue traps.
Smiles!—Regina
Tell Lowe's: Glue Traps Are Horrifying March 7, 2008
Posted by Pulin Modi at March 7, 2008 8:06 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 8 ) | TrackBack
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You know that company Lowe's? Well, I think it's shameful that they sell glue traps. You don't have to be a big time animal rights activist to know that it's cruel to kill animals with glue traps.
Glue traps are among the most cruel pest-control devices on the market today. Rats, mice, birds, and many other animals get stuck to them and suffer for days before they finally die of starvation, dehydration, self-mutilation, and shock. Patches of skin, fur, or feathers are torn from their bodies as they frantically struggle to escape the glue that starts coating their bodies.
Really, can you imagine how flat out horrifying it is for an animal caught in one of these traps?
But so far, not this, nor the fact that other companies—including CVS, Rite Aid, Albertsons, and Safeway—have banned glue traps has persuaded Lowe's to do the right thing and get rid of them once and for all.
Please take a second to fill out this form, which sends an automated letter to the CEO of Lowe's urging him to stop selling glue traps. Thanks for speaking up for animals in need of your help.
Thanks!
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