Imagine walking down an alley. Suddenly, you can’t lift your feet from the ground – they’re mired in glue so sticky that you can’t lift them out. You scream and fight to get loose, but nobody helps you. You get thirsty and hungry, but there’s nothing you can do. After hours, maybe even days, you eventually succumb to dehydration, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. Can you think of a more inhumane death?

That’s what mice experience when caught in glue traps – the kind of glue traps sold in Canadian Tire stores. The Vancouver Humane Society has asked Canadian Tire to stop selling glue traps but they have refused, stating that they “offer a complete selection of pest control products for our customers to choose from."

Now we’re asking compassionate Canadians to urge Canadian Tire to end the sale of cruel glue traps.

Glue traps are an inhumane method of capturing rodents because of the distress and injury they can cause, and the slow and painful death they can cause the animal. They can also severely injure or kill non-target animals like birds and other wildlife.  The BC SPCA and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies oppose glue traps because they are inhumane.

It’s time cruel glue traps were taken off the shelves.  Let’s ask Canadian Tire to lead the way. Please sign our petition!