Victory! Culver City Bans Glue Traps After PETA Push

For Immediate Release:
October 28, 2025

Contact:
Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382

Culver City, Calif. –

Following communications with PETA, the City Council of Culver City voted unanimously this evening to adopt a ban on the use and sale of cruel glue traps, making it the third city in the U.S. to do so.

Glue traps are one of the cruelest methods of killing animals in existence today. Animals who get stuck struggle desperately to escape, sometimes chewing off their own limbs before succumbing to starvation, dehydration, asphyxiation, or blood loss. And glue traps fail as a long-term solution because they neglect to address the source of the problem: as long as food remains accessible, more animals will move in to take the place of those who have been killed.

“Culver City’s compassionate ban will spare countless animals, including mice, rats, birds, bats, and squirrels, from being caught in glue traps and suffering excruciating and terrifying deaths,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is celebrating the efforts of the City Council and the local businesses who made this ban possible, and calling on lawmakers across the country to do the same.”

small mouse in glue trap — *A mouse stuck on a glue trap. Photo: PETA*

Both mice and rats are highly social animals who become attached to each other and love their own families. Male mice and rats woo their mates with high-pitched love songs that are inaudible to the human ear. Mice live in family groups, play together, and enjoy sleeping curled up with their social partners.

Hundreds of companies and entities, as well as countries including England, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales; three Australian states and one territory; 32 states and union territories in India, and the cities of Ojai, CA and West Hollywood, CA have all banned glue traps.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.