PETA lauds Telangana for ban on glue traps for rodent

Hyderabad: The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), India, commended the State government for issuing orders prohibiting manufacture, sale, and use of glue traps for rodent control. Recently, the PETA, India had made an appeal to the State government, urging it to ban such practices. In its appeal, the group requested that immediate steps […]

Hyderabad: The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), India, commended the State government for issuing orders prohibiting manufacture, sale, and use of glue traps for rodent control.

Recently, the PETA, India had made an appeal to the State government, urging it to ban such practices. In its appeal, the group requested that immediate steps should be taken-up to implement Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) circulars, prohibiting use of glue traps.

The manufacturers and sellers of glue traps sentence small animals to hideously slow and painful deaths and can turn buyers into lawbreakers. “PETA India commends Telangana State for its progressive action, which sets a precedent for the entire country and will protect countless lives,” PETA India Advocacy Associate, Pradeep Ranjan Doley Barman, in a press release said.

In the order, Director of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department, Anita Rajendra directed veterinary and animal husbandry officers and District Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to request police to conduct seizures of glue traps from manufacturers and traders and issue public-awareness notices regarding the ban on the use of such traps.

Such traps are usually made of plastic trays or sheets of cardboard covered with strong glue and they are indiscriminate killers, often catching non-target animals, including birds, squirrels, reptiles, and frogs in apparent violation of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, which prohibits the hunting of protected indigenous species, PETA said.

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