"This is an ineffective and gruesome practice that the city currently has with using glue traps, and I would love to see us eliminate it," Commissioner Whitney Holt said.
"Animals caught in glue traps suffer intensely, sometimes for days, before dying," Naomi Silverman with World Animal Protection said. "The glue rips off their skin and feathers leaving them to bleed, starve or suffocate to death."
"Glue traps are unnecessarily cruel, they cause what amounts to torture to all manner of living things from insects to mammals of all kinds," said Dianne Odegard, co-founder of Austin Bat Refuge.
"In addition to being unimaginably cruel and causing prolonged suffering to animals, the glue traps are also indiscriminate, ensnaring any small animal who wanders across or lands on its surface," said Kristin Dunn with the Travis Audubon Society.
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