Submitted on Wednesday 19th June 2019
Rejected on Monday 15th July 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban cruel glue traps in the UK
Glue traps are sheets of card covered with strong adhesive, designed to catch rodents. These traps can also entangle other small animals. Glue traps are banned as inhumane in Ireland, New Zealand and Victoria. But NOT in the UK, who claims to have the highest animal welfare standards in the world.
Glue traps are cheap and advertised as 'eco friendly'. Any animal that touches a glue trap, attracted by bait like cheese or seeds, becomes stuck to the glue. There they slowly starve to death, struggling for anything between three and 24 hours. Sometimes a trapped animal escapes by gnawing off a leg glued to the card. This petition is not arguing against all pest control, simply against unnecessary cruelty. There are alternative humane methods: even old-fashioned snap traps are more humane.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/262769
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