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Updated: 10:02 PM Nov 28, 2007
Pet Owners Speak Out About Traps
Two Eau Claire pet owners say animal traps set in a public recreation area have hurt or killed their dogs in the last month. Now, they want the rules on trapping changed. Posted: 6:23 PM Nov 28, 2007Reporter: Katie Heinz Email Address: katie.heinz@weau.com |
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I am a trapper only for three years now i have not had any accidents involving any pets and hope i never do but if it does happen i would feel bad but if i was within the laws set forth for me to follow i would get over it but if the trap was not legal i would give up trapping rights i am a dog onwer myself and i know that most ares have leese law so i think the dog onwer was the one breaking the law here if we as sportsmen have to follow the law so should we as dog onwers
What everyone seems to forget is that many county and state lands are serviced by the DNR. Trappers and hunters indirectly finance this service. The hikers and other recreators pay nothing. A fact of life in Wisconsin we will always have hunting, fishing, and trapping. Maybe we should tell people they can't go fishing because a hook might get stuck in a swimmer's foot?
Fur trapping is unnecessary and causes a great degree of suffering to both wildlife and pets. And because they are so indiscriminate, traps sometimes kill endangered or threatened wildlife. We need predators like foxes in our forests to keep rodent populations down. We don't need trapping. Hopefully the Committee will ban trapping in this area. Some states ban commercial fur trapping entirely. Maybe somebody soon Wisconsin will do the same.
My question is: Why can't trappers use a different form or trapping? (Cages for example if they are only trapping small animals) This way if a domestic pet gets caught they are not killed and children would not be able to get inside these traps or get INJURED/KILLED! I just cannot believe bear traps are still legal, not only are they a danger to people the traps are a cruel method for killing animals. If you want to trap a bear just go out and hunt it down! If for some reason bear traps are still legal after this then at least a SIGN should be posted 200,100,50, and 10 yards away from any trap.
Being a former resident of Eau Claire I was appalled to learn that Wisconsin allows trapping in recreation areas. I am sorry but I view a recreation area as a place you visit to have fun and you would not need to be concerned with an activity that can result in deadly consequences. Trapping unlike hunting is a indiscriminate killer as a number of animals including domestic pets are attracted to scented traps. You would think that at a minimum there would be a law that requires trappers to post signs to warn the public that they have set traps in a recreation area.
hope they ban the traps we had a yellow lab pup in a corn field that drug a trap who knows how far n now looks like it's leg will need 2 be removed..what will it take a child running in2 a trap while paying hide n seek before they open their eyes..feel 4 the family n dog that suffered n all others that went through it or will go through it
While it may be true that trappers have just as much right to the land as the people who come there with their pets, the people with their pets are not posing a threat to anyone else. Trappers must be mindful that they are engaging in an activity that has deadly consequences. Since it has been shown recently that not all trappers are mindful of those consequences, perhaps they should not be entitled to the use of the land as much as everyone else. Above all, the recreation areas need to be safe so that everyone who goes there can enjoy them. People shouldn't have to be worried about themselves, their children or pets stepping into a trap.
The trappers pay just as much as the dog walkers for the upkeep of the land, both of them have a right to be there.