Please Join the Campaign Against Glue Traps

Please send Sample Letter and Petition protesting glue traps.

Background | From PETA

Glue traps cause slow, agonizing deaths to the animals—mice, birds, squirrels, kittens, and other small animals—who get caught in them. These animals can die of suffocation, dehydration, or starvation while stuck to a trap, or the glue can rip patches of skin, fur, or feathers from the animals’ bodies as they desperately struggle to escape. Death can take days.

Glue traps are also filthy—in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions against their use! And glue traps don’t even work to control rodent populations: When rodents are killed, a spike in the food supply results, prompting accelerated breeding among survivors and newcomers and causing increased populations!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns against glue trap usage because of the disease risks posed by the many pathogens in the waste of ensnared rodents, who eliminate out of stress and fright. This should be a concern for any business. Glue traps are some of the cruelest products on the market, causing immense and prolonged suffering. Panicked rodents often rip themselves to pieces in their frantic struggle to escape the sticky mess. Exhausted and terrified, they die from shock, dehydration, asphyxiation, or blood loss. Death can take more than 24 hours.

Many well-known companies and institutions, such as JPMorgan Chase Bank, American Eagle Outfitters, and even the New York City Police Department, have already pulled these cruel, unsanitary, and ineffective traps. But others have not yet done so. Mice and other animals who suffer in glue traps need your voice. Please contact the following entities now and demand that they stop selling cruel glue traps.



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WHOM TO CONTACT

Email block:

twlawrence@raytheon.com,
john_b_patterson@raytheon.com,
david.c.stuckwisch@pps.k12.va.us,
nita.mensia-joseph@pps.k12.va.us,
ballake@tulsaschools.org,
leeto@tulsaschools.org,
james.merrill@vbschools.com,
larry.ames@VBSchools.com

Individual details:

Raytheon Missile Systems

Taylor W. Lawrence
President
Raytheon Missile Systems
twlawrence@raytheon.com

John B. Patterson
Senior Manager of Public Relations
Raytheon Missile Systems
john_b_patterson@raytheon.com

Portsmouth Public Schools

David C. Stuckwisch
Superintendent
Portsmouth Public Schools
801 Crawford St.
Portsmouth, VA 23704-3822
757-393-8742
757-393-5236 (fax)
david.c.stuckwisch@pps.k12.va.us

Nita Mensia-Joseph
Director of Operations
Portsmouth Public Schools
801 Crawford St.
Portsmouth, VA 23704-3822
757-393-8332
757-393-5236 (fax)
nita.mensia-joseph@pps.k12.va.us

Tulsa Public School

Dr. Keith Ballard
Superintendent
Tulsa Public Schools
3027 S. New Haven Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74114
918-746-6295
918-746-6334 (fax)
ballake@tulsaschools.org

Todd Lee
Chief Information and Operations Officer
Tulsa Public Schools
3027 S. New Haven Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74114
918-746-6800
918-746-6334 (fax)
leeto@tulsaschools.org

Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Dr. James G. Merrill
Superintendent
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
757-263-1007
757-263-1397 (fax)
james.merrill@vbschools.com

John Kalocay
Assistant Superintendent
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
757-263-1040
757-263-1502 (fax)

Larry Ames
Director of Custodial Services
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
757-263-2600
757-263-2601 (fax)
larry.ames@VBSchools.com

Hounds Run Apartments in Theodore, Alabama

Thomas H. Cooksey
President
Apartment Services & Management, Inc.
5954 Sperry Rd.
Theodore, AL 36582
251-653-4431
251-653-4492 (fax)

Thelma Lambert
Resident Manager, Hounds Run Apartments
Apartment Services & Management, Inc.
5954 Sperry Rd.
Theodore, AL 36582
251-653-4431
251-653-4492 (fax)

SAMPLE LETTER

To Whom It Concerns,

I have just learned of your use of glue traps to capture and kill mice. Killing the mice is inherently immoral, and using glue traps to do so compounds the vicious nature of such an extremely painful and fearfully agonizing experience for animals. These animals are further traumatized trying to free themselves, causing skinning, tearing, ripping, and dismemberment, a profoundly agonizing ritual of attempting to escape for hours upon hours; death sometimes can take days. If you had to experience such a barbaric form of torture and prolonged death, would you be willing to justify it? This also proves medically dangerous to humans considering that, according to the CDC, glue traps create optimal conditions to spread disease.

It is impossible to contemplate supporting any business, including apartment complexes and schools, that capitalizes on the brutality of animals, and when you utilize such horrendous accessories, you are indeed establishing your complicity and apathy in doing so, and I respectfully request you discontinue using glue traps. Indeed, I hope this letter finds you willing to scrutinize both your own involvement in the intentional exploitation of animals and your desire to therefore protect, rather than harm, them.

Please consider, instead, using humane traps to capture and release mice in an ethical and painless manner. These can be found at hardware stores and local animal rescue groups, who would be willing to assist you.

Thank you for your time and attention to this important issue.

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would think it more
than rude
if they were themselves
trapped and painfully glued

Karen Lyons Kalmenson