- Signatures: 1,428
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 12-31-2006
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Email this PetitionPETA has asked The Home Depot to stop selling a notoriously inhumane product that causes immeasurable animal suffering—glue traps. Glue traps are some of the cruelest pest-control devices on the market today, and The Home Depot is profiting from them. Animals who get stuck to these boards often suffer for days before they finally succumb to starvation, dehydration, self-mutilation, and shock. Patches of skin, fur, or feathers are torn from their bodies as victims struggle frantically to escape the relentless adhesive. Many animals chew off their own limbs trying to free themselves, and others get their noses, mouths, or beaks stuck in the glue and suffocate.
Glue traps do not discriminate. “Nontarget” animals routinely fall prey to these cruel devices. PETA fields calls on a daily basis from distraught customers who have discovered that birds, squirrels, and even their animal companions have become hopelessly stuck in glue traps. When the inevitable occurs and their children, spouses, housemates, or coworkers hear the screams of trapped animals, they often try in vain to release the animals, but it’s impossible, and their efforts cause even more pain and distress. The best thing that can be done for glue trap victims is to find the nearest veterinarian who can euthanize them as soon as possible.
In 1997, PETA wrote to The Home Depot’s corporate headquarters and urged the company to immediately cease its widespread sale of glue traps, and as a result, PETA received The Home Depot’s written assurance that the company would cease selling glue traps in its thousands of stores.
The Home Depot’s promise was an empty one.
In August 2005, when PETA learned that The Home Depot had resumed selling glue traps, we contacted the corporate headquarters again, but numerous letters, phone calls, a scientific paper and copies of veterinarians’ affidavits attesting to the cruelty of glue traps, photos and video footage of victims, and various appeals have apparently fallen on deaf ears. Not even the fact that other companies—including CVS, Rite Aid, Albertsons, and Safeway—banned traps has persuaded The Home Depot to do the right thing and get rid of the traps.
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| 1,431 | 8:51 pm PST, Nov 11 | Anonymous | Female | oakland | California | Single | I saw the glue traps on display at Home Depot and was appalled. I can't believe these are being sold in this country when there are humane traps available. Home Depot is profiting from these glue traps that are made in China when it could easily find an American-made product that is humane, if it weren't so greedy. This would make a great segment for Sixty Minutes. |  |
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| 1,430 | 6:53 am PST, Nov 11 | Mr. | Rory Gillespie | Male | valencia | California | Partnered | The bible says in heaven the wolves will eat alongside the sheep....Hopefully one day on earth the humans can live alongside mice without subjecting them to this kind of torture. |  |
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| 1,429 | 11:04 am PST, Nov 3 | Ms. | Chelsie Larsen | Female | Roosevelt | Utah | Single | I found a humane mouse trap called "catch a mouse" go to greenbottleusa.com to read about it. Sticky traps are very very mean! | |
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| 1,428 | 11:08 am PDT, Oct 27 | Ms. | Marla Herzog | Female | Warsaw | Illinois | Divorced | There are more humane ways to rid your home of these creatures! Though they are considered "pests", they are still feeling, living, breathing creatures of God! Humane live traps are best, to let them go to live their little mouse lives! PLEASE BAN THESE INHUMANE TRAPS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ANIMALS AND THE COUNTRY! | |
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| 1,427 | 7:55 pm PDT, Oct 24 | Ms. | Anonymous | Female | Hamilton | Single | i didnt even know these existed until today it made me sick to my stomach | |
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| 1,426 | 4:55 pm PDT, Oct 4 | Mr. | Anonymous | Male | Elpaso | Texas | Married | No one or thing should suffer a death as that caused by glue traps. These traps are for people who enjoy torture and can't relate to how it is to suffer a death as this one being stuck and unable to move until you die.Anyone who can careless go bury yourself knee deep in cement and see how it feels trying to escape. | |
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| 1,425 | 10:30 am PDT, Sep 17 | Eli Is Here | Female | Kittanning | Pennsylvania | |
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| 1,424 | 10:53 pm PDT, Sep 8 | Ms. | Elizabeth Belflower | Female | Headland | Alabama | |
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| 1,422 | 11:51 am PDT, Aug 25 | Mrs. | Barbie Villalta | Female | Placerville | California | |
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| 1,421 | 11:00 am PDT, Aug 18 | Ms. | Robin Carr | Female | Meridian | Idaho | Divorced | Did you know that you are actually paying for the military to use these everywhere? sickening to know your tax dollars are supporting the glue trap method. I have seen baby sparrows, geckos, and a mouse on these things and its horrible | |
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| 1,420 | 9:40 am PDT, Aug 14 | Megan Toth | Female | San Francisco | California | |
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| 1,419 | 8:32 pm PDT, Aug 7 | germaine wachter | Female | aspen | Colorado | |
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| 1,418 | 4:43 pm PDT, Jul 16 | Peyton Benoit | Female | San Clemente | California | |
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| 1,417 | 7:19 am PDT, Jun 30 | Caitlin Griswold | Female | Warrensburg | New York |  |
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| 1,416 | 12:15 am PDT, Jun 13 | Omari Naeem | Male | Auburn | Alabama | Married | Take a stand and throw away glue traps whenever you find them anywhere. If at work offer to pay for humane replacements. | |
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| 1,415 | 11:17 pm PDT, Jun 9 | meagan barefoot | Female | azle | Texas | Single | People that make these traps must be stopped. | |
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| 1,414 | 3:16 pm PDT, May 29 | Ms. | Kim Hirschenhofer | Female | Newark | Delaware | Single | we can and must do better than to allow a living creature to suffer like this. Why are these things on shelves when there are more humane alternatives? | |
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| 1,413 | 9:02 am PDT, May 23 | Anonymous | Female | Denver | Colorado | |
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| 1,412 | 7:12 pm PDT, May 17 | ethan lake | Female | ringwood | Illinois | |
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| 1,411 | 2:01 pm PDT, May 10 | Ms. | Dawn Cribb | Female | Portland | Tennessee | |
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| 1,410 | 5:58 am PDT, May 4 | Ms. | Mia Rosario | Female | Miami Gardens | Florida | BAN these inHUMANe devises! | |
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| 1,409 | 5:35 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Anonymous | Male | tampa | Florida | Married | Please ban these traps. Rats make far better pets than any dog or cat i have EVER had. These are inhumane. | |
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| 1,408 | 10:33 am PDT, Apr 13 | Anonymous | Female | NORTH OLMSTED | Ohio | |
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| 1,407 | 7:11 pm PDT, Apr 8 | Raelyn Asher | Female | Arlington | Texas | Single | My sister's teacher tried to save a rat from the sticky trap and it head ripped off. | |
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| 1,406 | 6:36 am PST, Feb 12 | Anonymous | Female | Westbrook | Connecticut | Married | Those glue traps are nothing short of horrific! When we moved into our house 14 years ago I found one in a kitchen closet ... a tiny mouse skeleton attached. I have never forgotten that image, and it still saddens me to this day. BAN THEM! and the stores that don't - BOYCOTT! They'll get the message. | |
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| 1,405 | 12:28 pm PST, Jan 19 | Mrs. | Jana C. | Female | Costa Mesa | California | Married | Please stop this brutal treatment. I had to watch this happen and it is totally cruel. Please ban their selling! | |
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| 1,404 | 4:26 pm PST, Jan 5 | Ms. | Katie Streeter | Female | Mamaroneck | New York | Single | I had to watch three little field mice struggle and die today due to these glue traps. I have never heard a scream sound so pitiful and helpless than when I heard those mice crying to be saved. | |
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| 1,403 | 7:19 am PST, Dec 27 | Mrs. | Filomena Pereira | Female | Melksham-wiltshire | |
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| 1,402 | 3:53 pm PST, Dec 14 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Female | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Married | Boycott stores where this barbaric traps are sold! | |
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| 1,401 | 8:00 am PST, Dec 8 | Mr. | Ben Thompson | Male | LOUTH | Single | It is totally unacceptable that anybody should profit from the suffering of others.....human or animal. | |
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