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Urge Rural King to Stop Selling Cruel Glue Traps!

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Despite knowing that glue traps cause prolonged suffering, farm supply store Rural King continues to sell these cruel devices.

Glue traps are among the cruelest commercially available wildlife control products. Animals stuck on these traps panic and struggle to free themselves, causing the glue to tear off patches of their fur, feathers, or skin. In many cases, their noses, mouths, or beaks get stuck to the glue, causing them to slowly suffocate. Or they die from being crushed in the garbage, which is where the instructions on glue traps advise consumers to dispose of them.

Mice and rats – the most frequent victims of glue traps – are highly intelligent, sensitive, and loving beings. Male mice serenade their mates with high-pitched love songs. Baby rats giggle when they are tickled and adult rats will put themselves in harm’s way rather than allowing someone else to suffer.

Hundreds of companies, including Target, Rite Aid, Dollar Tree, and Walgreens, have already banned glue traps after hearing from PETA. Please contact Rural King now and demand that it stop selling cruel glue traps.

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Steve

Barbarick

Rural King

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

I was disappointed to learn that Rural King still sells glue traps.

These traps are indiscriminate killing devices, designed to ensnare any small animal who wanders across or lands on the trap’s surface. Naturally, they attempt to free themselves, but as they do the glue tears off patches of their fur, feathers, or skin. Sometimes animals even resort to chewing off their own limbs in a desperate effort to escape. It can take days for them to die of suffocation, starvation, dehydration, or blood loss while they cry out in agony.

While these traps are most often used to catch mice and rats, each week, animal hospitals and wildlife rehabilitators around the country frequently report rescuing trapped birds, chipmunks, lizards, and other small animals who often require urgent, life-saving care after becoming ensnared on these traps.

These devices also pose risks to human health because they increase people’s exposure to dangerous diseases: animals stuck in the glue continue to produce urine and feces, through which pathogens, including hantavirus, are transmitted.

Hundreds of other companies have already banned these cruel, unsafe devices and it is time for Rural King to do the same.

Please end your sale of glue traps immediately. Until Rural King pledges to stop selling glue traps, I will shop elsewhere and tell all my friends and family members to do the same. Thank you.

Sincerely,
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