Tell Discount Drug Mart to Ban Glue Traps!

Discount Drug Mart continues to sell vile and dangerous glue traps—which are boards that are coated with a sticky adhesive—even after hearing from PETA that these devices cause extreme suffering and pose serious health risks. Small animals caught in the glue can suffer for days, before dying from dehydration, asphyxiation, or blood loss.

Glue traps cause animals prolonged suffering. Victims mired in the glue go to great lengths to escape, such as tearing off their fur or feathers or even attempting to chew off their own limbs. Others’ faces get stuck in the glue, and it can take hours for them to suffocate. The traps’ instructions advise consumers to throw used traps into the garbage, even if they contain living animals, leaving them to suffer in agony until they eventually die under piles of trash.

These indiscriminate boards, which often immobilize and kill other small “nontarget” animals—such as lizards, snakes, and song birds—are also dangerous to human health. Discount Drug Mart falsely claimed that these traps protect customers from disease transmission, yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells the public not to use glue traps because immobilized animals continue to urinate and defecate while struggling, increasing the risk of exposure to dangerous diseases such as hantavirus and leptospirosis. Glue traps therefore heighten—rather than reduce—public health risks.

Dozens of retailers—including CVS, Target, and Walgreens—made the compassionate decision years ago to ban the sale of glue traps. Please help us urge Discount Drug Mart to join them in banning these vile, unsanitary torture devices.

Send polite comments to:

Buddy Graf
VP of Business Development/Risk Management
Discount Drug Mart
[email protected]

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