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

Written by PETA

Posted 01-31-2008

We have an urgent action alert up on our site right now, asking department store chain Lowe’s to pull the glue traps from its shelves ASAP. The deal with glue traps (as a lot of people find out the hard way when they use them) is that they’re exactly as crude as they sound. Animals trapped by glue boards generally die of starvation, dehydration, self-mutilation, or shock after they’ve finally exhausted themselves struggling to get free. The whole process, as you might imagine, is just supremely unpleasant, and not the sort of thing that any self-respecting home improvement warehouse should be endorsing.

You can make that point to Lowe’s through the handy little web form on this page.

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Recent Comments

Melissa commented:

Jan 31, 2008 7:00 PM

I wrote to Lowe's and their response was not very hopeful. They have no intentions of pulling glue traps from their shelves. Please don't support cruel products or Lowe's.
Maya, C.V.T. commented:

Jan 31, 2008 5:57 PM

Great LOL mouse he's adorable. The best "trap" is sealing up your house so they can't get in. Sadly my indoor cats get the ones who get in but we always look for the opening and fix the problem. Humane traps are nice but they just come right back in.
Sarah commented:

Jan 31, 2008 5:39 PM

Jim PETA has been going after the glue traps for the last couple years. They started with Wal Greens then Rite Aid Home Depot and now Lowes and probably after Lowes ends their selling they will probably go after Target unless they are already working with target you never know but before i continue my rant what i am saying is they have been going after other stores not just one.
Canaduck commented:

Jan 31, 2008 5:25 PM

I always tell people that if they're going to buy anything other than humane traps and some people just won't at least stay away from the glue ones. Those are the worst.
Carla commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:50 PM

Live traps if need be are the only way to go!! The only real way to reduce rodents in your home andor work place is void open holes in foundation and outside walls and the obvious "Don't leave food out in open areas"! Night time is when they are most active so do what you can so you can avoid close in counters and AVOID calling you're local exterminators!!
Jim commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:46 PM

There are so many stores Target included that are selling glue traps. Why go after just one in particular? I have been after my local Target store to remove glue traps for months and they have pretty much told me to go ck myself. I'd like to see PETA going after ALL stores that carry gluetraps.
Michele commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:21 PM

Let's see if Lowe's responds quickly to this action alert much like Lukoil did though they certainly can't beat 2 hours!. Send those alerts folks!
Sarah commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:17 PM

man you would think after all of those pharmacy stores stopped selling glue traps and after home depot Lowe's biggest competitor stopped selling them that Lowes would follow...i guess the Officers and Owners of Lowes really have no idea what they are in for....idiots.
Peace to You commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:17 PM

This is disgusting. The poor animal suffers a prolonged painful frightening death in glue traps! Live traps are the best way to remove unwelcome animals visitor with out pain and suffering and relocate them in a safe place and if there are more than one being removed they should be relocated in the same place so they can remain in the family unit if possible. With mice we wait till spring and then trap and relocate them so they dont suffer looking for a warm place to live during the winter months and have a better chance to survive in the spring weather in the woods. If we trap a nursing mother we let her go and retrap later when her baby's are old enough to be relocated with the unit. The people who buy these traps should be told just how awful they are and not be told that its a clean way to dispose of the problem. The company that makes these traps should be stopped from producing them.
FREE BURMA commented:

Jan 31, 2008 4:08 PM

It is an urgent topic to persuade the people that such kind of horrific methods to exterminate animals is more than cruel it's criminal! how can a human being be so heart and ruthless using this condemnable stuff! just some days ago i had the lovely chance to save a pretty mouse in my cellar because she could not get out of a tube and she looked at me so gratefully! why can't people just share their lives with all the other living beings without making war against them and without extermination! if somebody doesn't like mice or rats there is a very easy possibility to get rid of them without killing them they can't stand the smell of peppermint! but me i don't send them away i give them some goodies and like this they don't go out in the night because there are predators in the garden waiting for them! it's a pity that all the living beings have always to be afraid of humans we are actually living east of Eden too bad for humans because they are missing so much wonderful things on other living beings! so the human is the most primitive of all always war war war war towards every other lifeform! utterly stupid and ignorant and light years away from being a complete lovely being!!!

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