Update (April 22, 2023): Thank you to everyone who spoke up in behalf of this animal! PETA received an update from PAWS confirming that the donkey’s situation was investigated and that the animal subsequently received care. Our caseworkers will continue to monitor the situation.
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PETA has been alerted to the plight of an allegedly neglected donkey who is reportedly located on Settlers Road in Lindsay, Ontario. A video taken at the end of January depicts a donkey with extremely overgrown hooves that have started curling upwards—a painful phenomenon often referred to as “sleigh hoof” or “slipper foot.”
Equine experts agree that hooves need to be trimmed about every six to eight weeks. An eyewitness alleges that this donkey appears not to have received farrier care for five years. Without routine hoof trimming, excruciatingly painful conditions and lifelong or even life-threatening deformities can occur. Reportedly, this donkey struggles to walk and appears to be in extreme pain with each step.
The Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act prohibits engaging in acts that cause distress to animals or failing to follow applicable standards of care. Although PETA caseworkers reported the situation to local authorities, our requests for updates have been ignored. Nearly three months have passed since our initial report, but recent footage seems to show that little or no change has occurred. This animal needs you to speak up!
Update (April 15, 2024): Thanks in part to the support of compassionate people like you, Resolution R18—which asks the provincial government to ban the use, sale, and distribution of cruel glue traps—was adopted by the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities and is moving on to the Union of BC Municipalities for a vote in September. We are now one step closer to seeing these vile devices banned throughout British Columbia!
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This weekend, delegates at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities convention in Victoria, British Columbia, will be voting on a resolution asking the provincial government to ban the use, sale, and distribution of cruel glue traps, which kill, injure, and permanently disable countless small animals every year. We need your help to get this historic resolution passed!
A glue trap is a small board covered with a sticky adhesive designed to ensnare any animal who wanders across its surface. These devices inflict slow, painful deaths on mice, rats, birds, chipmunks, bats, lizards, squirrels, and other animals small enough to get caught in the glue. They can take days to die of starvation, dehydration, or blood loss while they cry out in agony.
The animals panic and struggle, which causes them to become even more ensnared. Often, the adhesive tears off patches of their fur, feathers, or skin—and some animals even chew off their own limbs in a desperate effort to escape. In other cases, their noses, mouths, or beaks get stuck in the glue, causing them to suffocate to death over the course of hours. Or they die from being crushed in the garbage, which is where the instructions on the traps advise consumers to put them.
By banning glue traps, British Columbia would join an ever-growing list of places—including England, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, two states and one territory in Australia, two American cities, and more than 30 states and union territories in India—that have already banned these cruel devices.
This weekend, delegates at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities convention in Victoria, British Columbia, will be voting on a resolution asking the provincial government to ban the use, sale, and distribution of cruel glue traps, which kill, injure, and permanently disable countless small animals every year. We need your help to get this historic resolution passed!
A glue trap is a small board covered with a sticky adhesive designed to ensnare any animal who wanders across its surface. These devices inflict slow, painful deaths on mice, rats, birds, chipmunks, bats, lizards, squirrels, and other animals small enough to get caught in the glue. They can take days to die of starvation, dehydration, or blood loss while they cry out in agony.
The animals panic and struggle, which causes them to become even more ensnared. Often, the adhesive tears off patches of their fur, feathers, or skin—and some animals even chew off their own limbs in a desperate effort to escape. In other cases, their noses, mouths, or beaks get stuck in the glue, causing them to suffocate to death over the course of hours. Or they die from being crushed in the garbage, which is where the instructions on the traps advise consumers to put them.
By banning glue traps, British Columbia would join an ever-growing list of places—including England, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, two states and one territory in Australia, two American cities, and more than 30 states and union territories in India—that have already banned these cruel devices.
Please urge your mayor and councillors to support a provincewide ban on glue traps! You can you e-mail them the sample letter at the bottom of this page, using their contact information in the alphabetized list below.
Here is contact information for Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities member mayors and councillors.
Following news that yet another bird flu outbreak is sweeping the nation and that nearly 2 million chickens have been killed in 2024 by Texas-based egg seller Cal-Maine Foods Inc., PETA is hitting cities across the country with a multipronged campaign warning of the dangers of continuing to eat meat, eggs, and dairy from animals confined to filthy, severely crowded sheds or feedlots and encouraging people to take the simple and obvious step of going vegan.
We’re talking with ad companies about placing a stark, sky-high warning near Cal-Maine’s operation in Texas and in major cities across the country, reminding everyone that farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses are breeding grounds for a host of deadly pathogens that can easily mutate and spread to humans.
On April 4, PETA supporters took action in the Lone Star State by flocking to Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, where they gave away dozens of delicious vegan hard-boiled WunderEggs and dished out free vegan starter kits with tips and recipes for eating vegan.
“Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s life-size, hyper-realistic chicken transport truck covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to slaughter—is in the midst of a cross-country tour and is currently in Mississippi, near Cal-Maine’s headquarters, bombarding diners with actual recorded sounds of dying birds’ cries along with a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan.
In 2023 alone, at least 58 million birds confined on farms were systematically killed to limit the spread of avian flu, often using horrific methods, including the following:
Ventilation shutdown (VSD), a prolonged and terrifying process in which workers shut off all airflow to the sheds in which the animals are kept, slowly suffocating them
VSD Plus, which involves adding heat or gas to the air, depriving the animals of oxygen, and raising the temperature to as high as 120 degrees, essentially baking them alive
Slowly suffocating them with a substance similar to firefighting foam
The majority of serious disease outbreaks in recent years originated in animals before being transmitted to humans, including COVID-19, AIDS, avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika. Strains of avian flu have already spread, decimating wild bird populations around the globe.
Eating meat, eggs, and dairy from deplorable operations in which thousands or even millions of animals are confined amid their own waste not only is disgusting and cruel but also will unquestionably lead to more outbreaks. PETA urges everyone to go vegan now—before it’s too late.
For those looking to keep pathogens off their plates or simply avoid paying skyrocketing egg prices, we offer a roundup of delicious, animal-friendly, and safevegan egg options as well as a vegan egg replacer guide for home cooks.
