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Trapping is an outdated, inhumane practice

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I am totally baffled as to why the trapping of animals is still allowed.

I really try to stay away from controversial topics in this column, but I feel a responsibility to speak for the animals.

A couple of years ago I wrote about reading a story on Facebook by wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen. He wrote about his trapping experience when he was a kid growing up in Nebraska. He caught a raccoon’s foot in a leg trap and realized at the age of 10 that the raccoon had chewed its foot off to save itself.

A week later Tom caught the same raccoon, which had only three feet and an infected bloody stump. He quit trapping for good. He was saddened by what he had done and the torture and torment he felt for the animals. As a 10-year-old he was taught…

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4 thoughts on “Trapping is an outdated, inhumane practice

  1. Agree!! Trapping snares or anything like that should be banned. They are cruel and inhumane and indiscriminate killers of wildlife and also pets who get caught. What is wrong with humans. Why do they think they can kill wildlife this way. We must stop this.

  2. appreciate the acccount. have you written and put yourself on the line with wyoming agains thtis/ write. speak.c all. the guys who can stoip it. the senators from ewyoming.

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