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Dec 14 2014 A New Organization Seeking Safe Trails and Trapping Reform Has Just Launched in Utah
TrailSafe Utah's main goals are to make hiking safer and to regulate trapping to reduce animal suffering. -
Dec 14 2014 New Lynx Estimate Will Help Maine, Federal Wildlife Agencies Deal With Trapping Concerns
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife ordered the halt of all above-ground trapping in the northern half of the state in response to the death of two Canada lynx that were killed in traps this fall. -
Dec 11 2014 Dog Trapping Incident | Gillette, WY
A dog was caught in a leghold under a tree, taking two people to free the pet. Swelling to the foot and leg was an issue for a few days. -
Dec 04 2014 Nearly 20 Lynx Caught in Traps in Maine This Fall as Trapping Rules Loosened
A federally protected Canada lynx has been killed by a trap and nearly 20 others have been caught but not killed this fall, including five or six since the federal government’s approval last month of a trapping plan administered by the state of Maine -
Dec 04 2014 Traps Kill Family’s Three St. Bernards Near Garden Creek, Casper, Wyoming
Three St Bernards were caught and killed in snares, Casper, WY. The snare traps are set about knee high on poles buried in sage brush, and have cable loop around the pole that will grip what goes in it, Savannah said. “If you pull on that cable loop, it will suck whatever you pull into it, and if you fight it will just get tighter and tighter and tighter. So it will choke you out if you get your head in there.”