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In a historic move to defend vulnerable small animals, delegates at the Union of BC Municipalities convention voted to adopt a resolution asking the provincial government to ban the sale and use of cruel glue traps. Now we need your help to get a provincewide glue trap ban passed in the Legislative Assembly, which would prevent the suffering of countless animals every year!
A glue trap is a small board covered with a sticky adhesive designed to ensnare any animal who wanders across its surface. These devices inflict slow, painful deaths on mice, birds, chipmunks, lizards, bats, squirrels, and other animals small enough to get caught in the glue. They can take days to die of starvation, dehydration, or blood loss while they cry out in agony.
The animals panic and struggle, which causes them to become even more ensnared. Often, the adhesive tears off patches of their fur, feathers, or skin—and some animals even chew off their own limbs in a desperate effort to escape. In other cases, their noses, mouths, or beaks get stuck in the glue, causing them to suffocate to death over the course of hours. Or they die from being crushed in the garbage, which is where the instructions on the traps advise consumers to put them.
By banning glue traps, British Columbia would join an ever-growing list of places—including England, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, much of Australia and Belgium, two U.S. cities, and more than 30 states and union territories in India—that have already banned these cruel devices.
Please use the form below to urge your member of the Legislative Assembly to support a provincewide ban on glue traps!