Hidden research shows that shops throughout the UK that sell sticky and cruel traps tell customers how to use them illegally, have shown secret research.
Pet cats, hedgehogs, and wild birds are all accidentally trapped in the machines, and the frustrating photos of animals that suffer in trying to release themselves have sparked widespread anger.
In 2020, a black and white cat should be eliminated after stuck into four adhesive traps that cause him to hurt him because of the “terrible” injury.
In 2021, a child’s fox was stuck in an adhesive trap in Edinburgh and severely damaged their skin and fur, and rescuers spent hours eliminating glue to save the animal.
The adhesive traps are designed in such a way that they do not get mice and mice. They strive for hours or days on super -strong glue, and some tears or bite the limbs trying to escape.
Rodents are often strangled from glue sticking to their mouths or nose or die from a lack of body water, hunger or burnout.
About a year ago, the use of unauthorized adhesive traps was banned and offenders can be fined or imprisoned – but the sale of traps is still legal.
Hundreds of thousands are sold in the UK every year, and the parliament was discussed before the ban.
Last year, the RSPCA received 40 reports of stuck animals in adhesive traps and received more than 200 reports in the past five years. The stuck animals included wild birds, the hedgehog and the pet cats.
The Humane World for Anims UK charity, which has done secret research, says he believes that hundreds of stores are still selling them – even if this is a criminal offense to use them.
Buyers of the charity visited 50 independent DIY stores or hardware that were randomly selected in the UK, or found that 23 – 42 % – were sold to the public. Prices only from £ 1 in a package in Manchester to 3.99 pounds in London, with an average of about 2 pounds.
None of the shops that sell them told the researchers that the use of traps is illegal without permission to control pests.
Each 23 shops said it was good to get painful and painful despite the risk of birds and cats.
When buyers asked what to do with the mice that are trapped, the shop assistant suggested that the animals can be trapped alive, which would be a criminal offense.
Two stores selling telephoto – one in East Yorkshire and the other in Norfolk – referred to the stories of animals chewing their organs trying to escape.
A shop assistant in eastern Sasks, when he was asked how a mouse was killed, said, “I usually just rotated it and drown it.”
A store assistant confessed that he wouldn’t be “kind”.
According to 42 %, researchers estimate that 3,000 Independent Hardware stores in England, about 1,260 adhesive traps.
World World for Anims UK, formerly the Humane Society International UK community, which calls for a ban on selling these devices, said that most store employees are simply unaware of the law.
The charity’s Claire Bass said that hundreds of shops are likely to sell cruel adhesive traps to public members who may be unaware that they can face criminal charges if they are used. ”
“This is especially concerned that some shopkeepers are offering people to be able to put the animals on the traps so that they can slowly die in the bucket, or even drown them, both of which will be under the welfare of animals,” he said.
Ms. Bus added: “This legal hole mocked the licensing plan for professional pest controllers.”
Secret buyers reported that from the five stores surveyed in Wales, none sold adhesive traps, and everyone explained that they were illegal or cruel and offer more human options.
The British Pest Control Association has called on the British, Welsh and Scottish governments to ban the sale of adhesive traps to the public.
The three large DIY chains in the UK do not sell adhesive traps for mice or mice.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “We are always looking to minimize unnecessary suffering, and last year the use of adhesive traps to get rodents is unless it is done under strict conditions.”
The British Independent Retailers Association is consulting online for retailers to prevent the sale of adhesive traps for illegal use.
