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September 14, 2023
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Waco, Texas – In response to a Baylor Lariat article about how mice and rats proceed to inhabit Park Place Waco, an condominium advanced common with Baylor College college students and owned by Park7 Group, PETA plans to erect an attraction close to the constructing to induce the New York–primarily based property administration firm to deal with the issue utilizing humane rodent management strategies which have proved efficient.
The group additionally despatched a letter as we speak to Park7 Group CEO Ron Gatehouse reminding him that landlords are answerable for rodent-proofing their properties humanely and that failing to take action implies that renters pay a value and that rodents—who’re sensible animals and might definitely undergo—pay the very best value of all: shedding their lives for simply making an attempt to outlive. The letter factors out that killing these small mammals who’re simply making an attempt to get by solely causes others to maneuver into newly vacated areas and gives tips about how the corporate can proceed with security for all in thoughts, together with by offering sturdy and well-sealed trash containers, trimming vegetation in order that it’s away from buildings, and sealing holes bigger than 1/4-inch in diameter, cracks within the partitions and flooring, and gaps round doorways, home windows, and plumbing.
“Mice and rats are clever, affectionate little animals who kind shut bonds with their households and pals, take pleasure in enjoying and wrestling, and even giggle when tickled,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA is keen to assist the scholar tenants evict their rodent roommates nonviolently and urges Park7 Group to behave with widespread sense.”
PETA can also be sending a letter to Baylor College’s scholar physique president, Nick Madincea, with tips about dwelling with rats and a request for him to share these ideas with college students. The group urges everybody to keep away from utilizing glue traps and poisons in any respect prices, as such egregiously merciless strategies trigger animals to die slowly and agonizingly over a interval of days. In addition they don’t work, as extra undesirable animals will transfer in to interchange those who’ve been killed.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals will not be ours to abuse in any approach”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
