Urge MD Department of General Services to Cancel Glue Traps!

Sources allege that the George M. Taylor District Court & Multi-Service Center building for the District Court of Maryland has set out glue traps with the apparent intent to catch rodents. As you know, these hideously cruel devices cause immense suffering while indiscriminately inflicting terrifying deaths on any animals who become ensnared upon them. It’s frankly insane that glue traps are still legal anywhere!

Victims can take days to die of starvation, dehydration, shock, asphyxiation, or blood loss while they cry out in fear and agony. They will rip off patches of fur or feathers and skin as they struggle to escape, and some even chew off their own limbs. Other victims’ faces get stuck in the glue, causing suffocation over the course of hours. And ensnared animals continue to produce urine and feces, spreading dangerous pathogens, leaving people at increased exposure to disease which is why the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) cautions against glue traps.

PETA contacted management at the Department of General Services, who reportedly owns and maintains the building, and shared this information, urging them to do away with these medieval devices. However, we understand that glue traps are still in use. Now we need your voice!

Please join PETA in politely urging DGS to do the right thing by ditching glue traps—then share this alert with everyone you know!

Atif Chaudhry
Secretary
Maryland Department of General Services
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Larry Walker
Assistant Secretary
Office of External Affairs
Maryland Department of General Services
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Kate Calvert
Director of Life Safety and Quality Improvement
Maryland Department of General Services
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Brandon Stoneburg
Director of Communications
Maryland Department of General Services
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