BAN INHUMANE ANIMAL TRAPS
Every year, millions of furbearing animals are killed under the guise of "nuisance wildlife control" and millions more are killed in the name of fashion. Trappers frequently claim that trapping is humane, and necessary. But the facts show otherwise.
Once an animal is caught they may remain in the trap for several days before starving or dying from exposure. Many states only require traps to be checked every 72 hours. Many times an animal is bludgeoned to death to as to not damage the animal's pelt.
Snares cause an even more ghastly death. They are a wire noose and can cause trapped animals to slowly strangle to death. With leghold traps, an animal many times will chew off his own paw to escape, only to die days later from the injury.
Another big problem is that often a non-targeted animal has fallen victim to getting caught in these traps. Pet dogs, cats, hunting dogs, etc. have all become unwitting victims by stepping into a hunter's trap.
Although fewer than 150,000 people trap in the U.S., the federal government continues to expand trapping on public lands, even in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The wolf hunts that have been reinstated after the delisting of the wolves, have also added trapping to the hunts.
Bottom line trapping is barbaric, non-targeted animals often die, laws often are ignored and there's little oversight. Please help to end trapping in the U.S. by signing and sharing the petitions below.
1- Ask State to Prohibit ALL body gripping traps due to pain and suffering
2- The President of the United States: Ban leg hold traps in the United States
3- Ban Steel Jaw Traps
4- Stand Against Idaho's Pro-Trapping Amendment!
5- TRAP FREE NEW MEXICO-
6- End cruel trapping in all Wisconsin public lands.
end it
It's barbaric, cruel and unfair. the earth belongs to these creatures too, we share it with them, we are supposed to look out for them and treat them with respect. this is not the way forward.
Satan Spawn !
end this .....
these poor animals should be able to live in
piece
each is a spirit, each by right is alive and part of the chain of evolution. How would a human being feel trapped and then slaughtered? How dare you take a spirit or life for no good reason?
End this shit
Lets put the hand or foot of the trap owners in their own trap n leave em for nature to deal with
End it now!!!
END THIS CRUELTY AND ABUSE NOW
put an end to this now
We should not inflict what we would not care to endure. It is inhumane and dehumanizing to accept such behavior as "normal". Nature is not ours to destroy.
This is not right...put and end to it now.
This is wrong to let a animal be trapped and hurt to bleed to death. The humans that do this kind of thing would not want to die this way.
People need to progress from barbarism and become real human beings, who love and honour all non-human beings. Trapping animals is barbaric and to see these pictures shocks and saddens me. Stop it NOW!
Let's stop this IMMEDIATELY!!! It is barbaric, primitive, horribly cruel practice. Let's join our forces and stop this. NOW!
PLease stop this they hurt just as we do and they feel like we do and they have a heart aslo this is real mean when u do this to them how would u feel if it were u been miss treated and have this done to u?
BAN !!!!!!!!!
Stop all trapping!
How long do you think they would last if they could trap, or attack us. It is totally useless to practice this stupid out of date slaughter of animals.Again, lets make it sporting. The hunter/trapper should have to go into the forest with one hand tied behind their back and no weapons, like the animal they seek to kill.
These traps a barbaric, cruel and totally unnecessary in a civilized country!
Disgusting. How could anyone do this. Pure evil. It breaks my heart
Get it stopped. All animals are on this Earth for a reason.
PLEASEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!STOP BEEN SO CRUEL...!!!!!! TO THESE POOR ANIMALS..!!!! STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP,~!!!!!!
Stop the cruelty please. What did these animals do to deserve such insane treatment?
Man has to find a way to incorporate the Wild instead of trying to destroy it. Killing or "culling" is she same thing, why try to pull this over the eyes of the people. We have SOoooo many animals on the Endangered list. Leave the wolves alone...give the "wild" a break!
So unbearably cruel! Please stop!
As A Conservative Christian Patriot "Real American" I Am Saddened By The Practice Of Trapping. People Who Do This Are Evil, Have No Soul or Conscience.
...........HELP BAN THIS EVIL !.............
stop that barbaric practice on wildlife !!
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ugh We are the worst thing to happen to this earth.
Absolutely horrible. there is no reason for inhuman/unappropriate animal traps.
I cry everytime i see this!
It's heart breaking how many people are treat animals so savage,y. Clearly, not these people are in the lowesr level of evelovement on the planet. This practice is unnecesary and cruel...
sick ban those traps
Please end it now forever!! STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!' Just imagine putting , just for one moment ourselves in their place.
Plzz end this inhumane activity..........nd if u cant then plzzz set a trap at ur location for urself too
Stop!
This terrible cruelty must stop now and the perpetrators thrown in jail! This is so evil.
This evil must stop now. The humans should be trapped to see what it feels like and then severely punished.
Stop this evil now. The animals need protection and love, and the humans need to be trapped themselves, then thrown in jail and punished.
These things are completely evil and chickenshit. they should be banned in all states. Let the ones who put them out be trapped in them. See how they like it.
damn it..end this!!! i hate when people do this things to our lovely animals. This is so much evil in this!!! END IT NOW!!!!!!!! This should be banned everywhere! Humans are the worst predators on earth.....
Stop that pain
awful!
What goes around comes around, no need for cruelty like this. What do you expect when human life is not even respected with abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide and on and on and on.... God help us.
people who would torture and kill animals like this are disgusting and I trust that Karma will get them back - Stop this slaughter !
This is cruel and inhumane, We need to stop these barbaric practices!
Mayas, hurry up ! Look what "humans" are doing ...
plz stop this
Who uses animal traps is a great bastard!!
This is inhuman. Please, that's enough!
This barbaric practice has to stop. Animals have as much right to live in peace as we do, the Creator made all life & we are supposed to be looking after those lives not murdering them.
Signed all the petitions. I agree with all the comments here. Barbaric practice that should have been long wiped out. God will not be impressed with the torturing of these animals. If torturing and murdering of animals continue what hope is there for mankind?
BAN THIS RIGHT NOW, END IT ONCE AND FOR ALL.
END THIS!
These animals are created by God and should not suffer this way..it is inhumane...
that is really barbaric, not useful, stupid, cruel
The laws need to be changed. Contact or write your mp...be the change you want to see in the world.
End it NOW
This article is BS at it's core. These people know nothing of trapping laws or the trapping community. Everything you read on the internet is not true! All you tree huggers need to get a real life!
This is so cruel, so sad, so horrific. Words can not even describe the horror for these poor sentient beings. Shame and karma on the humans who did this.
This makes me sick, this is the bloody 21st century let's trap the trappers. Karma... one can only hope.
This is just wrong the picture of this is heart felt...
This makes my heart hurt! STOP NOW!!!! KARMA will PREVAIL......
I wish a human could trade places with these magestic animals for 1 day! Who gives us the authority to wonder into THEIR wilderness and kill them. I'm discusted with the actions of man.
END THIS FUCKING BRUTAL, BARBARIAN, BRAIN-, HEART- & SOULLESS, IGNORANT & SELFISH SHIT NOW!!!
END ALL STEEL LEG TRAPS!!
how we can actually stop that!!! we should do something real to help those poor creatures who are forced to share this planet with murderers. thats horrible, brutal
Lets do the same to those people , stop it !!!!!! We are their spokeman for their rights!
Sherry says: What the f____ is wrong with people? Leave all the wild life alone they were here before we were and killing them is just a cruel act of mankind...Let them live and do what they were put here to do to servive,,men are mean creatures and are very selfish,,TOO BAD WE CAN'T ALL LIVE TOGETHER...
Images like these bring tears to my eyes. No one can imagine the pain they experience ... and all for what?! These animals have a right to live like we umans do! They balance the ecosystem. If these trappers get their foot stuck in these traps, maybe they'll understand the suffering. If their own pets get stuck in these traps, maybe they'll understand. END THIS CRUEL PRACTICE!!!
On God's earth, NO!
Please stop this, animals don't deserve this.
What kind of sick bastard takes photos of these poor animals?
I would happily put a bullet through the skull of anyone that is willing to lay these traps.
End it NOW
Ban these traps NOW! This is sick! Imagine the pain and fear!!! How would you like it if that happened to you?
This completely turns my stomach that this is even still allowed!!!
Tat is just Wrong!!!!!
Hard to believe this is still going on. Isn't there any way of outlawing it. Makes me sick just to look at those poor animals.
PLEASE PLEASE STOP ALL THE BRUTAL KILLING OF ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These acts of cruelty are heartbreaking. Even if the animal population needs to be "controled", it should be done swiftly without any prolonged suffering.
Should put your face in one trap and your pecker in the other and then you can get a real feeling for it. You bastards deserve nothing less then that.
these people should be put into these kinds of traps and left to their own devises. See how they like being trapped. This is a sick personn that does this. Ban all trapping of any and all wild animals.
arrêtez de persécuter les loups, ils ne sont pas nés pour assouvir vos pulsions sadiques.
honte à ceux qui ont déposé ce piège,ces pauvres animaux ont le droit de vivre dignemenent, ils ne sont pas responsables de la surpopulation humaine.
The most cruel thing !! Maybe we should set traps outside our kids windows and do this to the sex offenders THAT i would agree to !!
Ban immediately and permanently.
I haven't thought about these since I was a kid and kids were being caught in traps left by hunters. Kids play in the woods and ponds, it's extremely frightening to see a friend get caught in one, what do you do? Leave your friend to get help where they may lose consciousness and drown in the pond? Snow, playing in the woods in the snow and get caught... what if you can't remember where your friend is? Your a kid? This happens, these traps are not selective. They are barbaric torture. Hunters should have to take a psych evaluation in order to be allowed to hunt, and if traps continue to be used, each trap should be registered and licensed to one hunter who is then held accountable for that trap.
BAN ALL THESE HORRIBLE TRAPS FOREVER!!!There are laws that put people who torture animals in jail. How in God's name can anyone justify these hideous implements of one of the worse kinds of torture??? It's just insane!!!
All animals have feelings. As animals ourselves, people should learn to stop taking that for granted.
Leave all animals alone! They have the right to live! These are living, feeling creatures!
Stop the slaughter. This is Stone-age Man behavior.
Let these people put their hand or feet in a trap to see how it feels.
Its evil and totally unnecessary. Anyone found using it should have the same done to them as punishment and then thrown in jail without medical attention.
stop use the traps !!! no good reason 4 them . theres no use 4 them at all !!!
This is outrageous & totally sick & inhuman ,please ban for ever those turturing, hideus traps !
These people should try it themselves!!! It is totally sick!!! Brainless stupid people...it is so fucking sick!!! It has to STOP!!!From an animal-lover:)
Stop it NOW
please stop it now......please.
NOW STOP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Please end now!
ugh they are so hard to open too ,the worst , and children and your pets get stuck in them as well , anything that hurts something is wrong! ban!
This is very cruel.This needs to stop now!!!!!
This should have been stopped a long time ago.... and the humans who use such barbarick tacts to capture animals should he held in these traps too!
Please put an end to these inhumane and barbaric traps, NOW!
my heart breaks for these poor animals. and even more that it is the members of my own species that is capable of such cruelty.
It is time for a better world, one that take care of all living being on this planet... i dream of a better world....
If it's not something we would do to ourselves, then why would we do it to others?
Togather we can make better world.
Someone's babies are being tortured. Slowly and agonizingly sentenced to a unimaginably horrible and surreal death - all for the crime of simply being alive. How does MAN not see how unconscionable this casual disregard for innocent life really is? How can MAN look in their faces and not see the immorality of HIS own inexplicably heinus acts? Can HE really look into their eyes - and not see the face of someone's baby that HE'S MURDERING?
Karen Hrycenko
This has to stop now
unfuck the mother eath.
THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW
This disgusting practice needs to be STOPPED!!!
If we are so different to other animals, if we are so superior in intellect and if what separates us from other species is our ability to empathise, then why on earth are we using these diabolically cruel traps? It is the politicians who are bowing to the wishes of small special interest groups that lobby and donate large in exchange for these favours. Well, we have a special interest too, in seeing an end to the appalling torture and slaughter of wild animals by those who are incapable of feeling empathy for others. It would be in everyone's interest if we achieve this by peaceful means and it is time politicians start doing what they are voted in to do, that is to carry out the wishes of their voters.
Please please please stop the suffering.
What is wrong with these people?
Allow the animals their place.
Give them space!
REspect all creatures, they deserve better!