Urge Health-Care System in Virginia to Avoid Glue Traps
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BACKGROUND | FROM PETA
The Halifax Regional Health System (HRHS), a South Boston–based organization that runs hospitals and other health-care facilities in Virginia, reportedly uses glue traps for rodent control. PETA informed HRHS officials about the extreme cruelty and disease risks inherent in using glue traps, but our concerns have apparently fallen on deaf ears.
Glue traps are some of the worst rodent-control 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 days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Canada warn against using glue traps 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 that patronizes ill or immune-compromised individuals!
WHOM TO CONTACT
Chris Lumsden
Chief Executive Officer
Halifax Regional Health System
434-517-3100
chris.lumsden@halifaxregional.com
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear CEO Lumsden,
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. I would hope any organization that shares a core principle of human health and quality of life, such as yours, would be equally concerned with any disease-spreading forms of rodent control.
It is impossible to contemplate supporting any business 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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to whom this may or may not concern
i am sure that you would think it rude
if to a trap, you were glued
spending hours just trying to
get away.
slowly and painfully your
life slipping away
be kind to mice
thought to you they are pests
humanely trapping and releasing
them would be for all,
the best!!!!
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
to whom this may or may not concern
i am sure that you would think it rude
if tp a trap, you were glued
spending hours just trying to
get away.
slowly and painfully your
life slipping away
be kind to mice
thought to you they are pests
humanely trapping and releasing
them would be for all,
the best!!!!
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