Target and Dollar Tree have quietly stopped selling glue traps for rodents, which animal-rights activists have long condemned as unnecessarily cruel, The Post has learned.To get more news about Glue Board, you can visit senpinghz.com official website.
The two mega-retailers, which together operate more than 17,000 stores across the US, are following other major retailers in dropping the traps. Those include the CVS, Rite Aid and Duane Reade drugstore chains as well as discount retailer Big Lots, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Hundreds of smaller retailers, including independent stores and mid-size chains, as well as shops at more than 100 airports also have dropped glue traps over the years, according to PETA.
Target and Dollar Tree, which also owns Family Dollar, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Dollar Tree made the decision to stop selling the traps about a year ago and may still “have a very small residual number of these [traps] in our stores,” the company told PETA in an email, in which it confirmed that it has “no plans to replenish” the products, according to the animal rights group.Target listed the traps as recently as May 10 on its website, according to PETA, but it dropped them after May 16, the animal rights group claims, citing calls to 20 stores across the country and tips from Target employees.
Introduced in the 1980s, glue traps also have been used to capture other wildlife including birds, snakes, and squirrels that “struggle desperately to escape, sometimes chewing off their own limbs before succumbing to shock, dehydration or blood loss,” according to PETA.
The group is now zeroing in on Home Depot and Lowe’s, PETA spokesperson, Moira Colley said, adding, “We continue to push Walmart, Amazon, and others to follow Target’s lead.” The group said it is also in conversations with grocers including Albertson’s, the No. 2 supermarket chain in the US.A spokesperson for Home Depot told The Post, it has had “ongoing conversations with representatives of PETA on this issue,” adding “We offer a wide variety of choices across all of our product categories based on customer demand.”