Victories: Wildlife

Key Corp has informed all its rodent-control vendors that they can never use glue traps on Key Corp property again.

Georgia Institute of Technology students reported that cruel glue traps were set for rodents at the Ferst Center for the Arts. PETA contacted schools officials, who agreed that glue traps are inhumane, and the traps were quickly banned at the university.

The Toronto District School Board—which directs the fourth largest school district in North America, with more than 600 schools—was considering the use of glue traps until PETA contacted district officials. They compassionately agreed that rodent control need not be cruel and are taking steps to ensure that glue traps are never used.

SSA officials graciously agreed to remove glue traps from all offices and switch to alternative methods of animal control.

Goldman Sachs, the fifth largest financial institution in the country, confirmed that it will no longer use glue traps in any of its buildings.

With hard work and persistence, PETA was able to convince Ally Financial, the 15th largest financial institution in the country, not to use glue traps in any of its buildings.

After PETA informed U.S. Bank, the 10th largest financial institution in the country, of the cruelty inherent in the use of glue traps, it agreed to implement a “no glue trap” policy at its 3,000 locations!

Thanks to PETA, financial institution State Street Corporation confirmed that glue traps will no longer be used in its buildings.

Regions Financial Corporation confirms that none of their rodent-control vendors use glue traps.

September 2011  PETA was alerted to allegations that a staff member at one of the largest pest-control companies in the U.S. drowned a skunk who had been cage-trapped. We contacted the CEO about this matter, and he was appalled and immediately addressed allegations with his staff nationwide, ensuring that staff knew that cruel methods of … Read more »

HSBC, the ninth largest financial institution in the country, immediately stopped using glue traps after learning from PETA that these traps kill mice and other animals by starvation and suffocation.

After receiving reports of trapped birds who were dying in residential gutters, PETA acted quickly to ensure that preventative installation measures would be taken.

This transportation provider is now using PETA’s humane control tips.

August 2011  At a Walmart store in Texas, a bird became mired in a glue trap set for rodents. A staffer then paraded around the store with the trapped animal and proceeded to kick the bird and the trap across the floor. Other staff members came to the bird’s rescue, safely freeing him. Animal control … Read more »

August 2011 PNC Financial, one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, with more than 2,500 locations, has instructed all its vendors that they can no longer use glue traps as a form of rodent control.