Upscale Management Company Shows a Big Heart for Small Animals
For Immediate Release:
October 18, 2012
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Boston -- Boston-based Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC is getting an award for a practice that has nothing to do with treadmills or "six-pack abs." That's because after learning from PETA about the cruelty of using sticky glue traps to kill mice, Millennium—which is known for its upscale office and hotel developments as well as its luxury sports clubs—has banned the devices from its locations in Boston, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. For rejecting the cruel pest-control method, Millennium will receive a Compassionate Company Award from PETA and a big box of vegan chocolates shaped like mice.
"It's wonderful to see one of the most prestigious sports-club companies in the country take the suffering of the smallest and most vulnerable animals into consideration," says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. "Thanks to Millennium's decision to ban glue traps, mice, birds, and other small animals will be spared a terrifying and painful end."
Glue traps are pieces of plastic or cardboard coated with a strong adhesive. After getting caught in the traps, panicked animals struggle to escape—often breaking their bones and ripping the flesh, fur, or feathers off their bodies in the process. Some animals chew off their own limbs in an attempt to free themselves, and others get their noses, mouths, or beaks stuck in the glue. The more the animals struggle, the more they stick to the traps, only to die from exhaustion, injury, shock, dehydration, asphyxiation, or blood loss. Glue traps are also ineffective and fail to address the source of the problem—more mice simply move in to take the place of the animals who have been killed.
Millennium Partners joins a growing list of major companies that have pledged not to use glue traps after hearing from PETA, including a majority of the nation's top banks and other financial institutions.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.