Dear Lowe's: Stop selling glue traps. Kthx.

I found out there's a mice in my apt and not knowing anything about this I thought calling the exterminator they would just put like a poison to kill it on the instant. Instead he set a bunch of glue traps. I spent the whole night freaking out and cried a lot. this morning thankfully it wasn't there. so I called them to cancel and I am buying those sound repellent. i bought those traps that the mice enters and get stuck... but im guessing if it happens at night by morning it woudl be dead so it would suffer anaywyas so im not sure ill use them. suggestions?

Marcy is absolutely correct here everybody get the word out that glue traps are inhumane and the market will take care of itself. Few corporations will see eyetoeye with you on this so your efforts are better concentrated elsewhere. Before I had done any research or given thought on these traps this summer my little 3.5pound maltese got her face hair stuck in one trap. Fortunately we didn't have to cut her hair because olivevegetable oil acts as a solvent Google knows all. I tried to apply the same technique to a mouse I caught then felt horrible about afterwards but it essentially would have drowned it. I had huge health concerns over droppings EVERYWHERE so it had to be caught. I know I won't be using glue traps from now on though.

Dear Lowe's Customer Service Thank you so much for the response. However I still feel you have a responsibility to "do what is right" over choosing animal cruelity to make a few bucks. We have seat belt laws tobacco and alcohol age requriements incest laws child labor laws decisions made by responsible persons of our leadership because CLEARLY some people do not consider the ramifications of their hasty unresearched profit chasing choices in this case suffering and well slowpainfull torture the "rodents" endure until they finally die. If calling them rodents helps you to rationalize that these creatures created by the same God or Science what ever you happen to believe in die in a slow painful and cruel way than go for it. Just remember that also these are social creatures so not only do the "rodents" suffer slowly but their nurturing social members suffer and watch as they die sometimes over weeks! God forbid any of your loved ones whether it be a beloved family member or pet die alone in a slow excrusiating frightening way starving or removing limbs to escape entrapment Sleep well and just know that eventually you WILL remove products that torture because law or community pressure will force you to. But you will not have done it for the ethical reasons and will therefore always be regarded by myself and the literal hundreds of people I will educate as a profit seeking animal tortoring corporate monster. Very Sincerely Hannah A. Williamson From contact.centerlowes.com mailtocontact.centerlowes.com Sent Thursday May 15 2008 601 AM To Hannah Williamson Subject RE Stop Selling Glue Traps Thank you for your comments regarding glue traps. As you know rodent control is an important concern for homeowners and business owners and we have a responsibility to provide the products our customers need. We have listened to our customers and conducted extensive customer research over the past several months regarding glue traps. We found that for many customers glue traps are the preferred rodent control product. We have also listened to PETAs concerns and as a result have changed our merchandise offering to cut in half the number of glue traps we offer and only carry the products that contain Eugenol which is an anesthetic. Because not every product is right for every situation Lowes carries more than 20 different rodent control products so customers may choose the ones that best suit their needs. Lowes Customer Care

anon breaking necks in mouse traps is a fast and painless end. Even the worst outcome is not as bad as mice dislocating joints in a futile effort to escape during the hours until the "trapper" happens to be alerted by screams of pain or worsestench. Or you could adopt a cat. meanjean technically you could well be right an overnight change to veganism would be a major strain on food resources. The grain stockpiles would somehow have to be converted into edible products and the farmers will have to change crops from low quality feed grains to milling quality which will take time. I'm not sure what the byproducts of oil seeds will be used for. Fear not there is currently enough farmland for everyone to go vegan. About half of the worlds grain goes to feed livestock and we still have enough to build ethanol factories. I don't know about in future thoughoddly enough as the population is supposed to peak around 9 billion people by 20502100. And they don't want the rice and rice diet their parents had so that will reqire a doubling of food. We may well require those pastures that grow on land unsuitable for cropping to be converted into meat. The biggest impediment to all turning vegan is that many cultures don't have much in the way of cropping and depend on their livestock.That or the 1 billion people worldwide whose livelihoods depend on raising livestock

If you say that glue traps are so inhumane why dont you complain about standard mouse traps. THEY BREAK THIER NECKS AND BACK PEOPLE! If thats not inhumane then I dont know what is. I'm sorry but if you want mice in your house and dont mind diseases go ahead and live with feces all over your house. Just wait until that mouse eat a hole in your electrical wires and you have to spend a few thousand dollars to fix it. Its called population control people.