Animal trapping’s heydey is rightly over

Exposing the Big Game's avatarCommittee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/letters/2017/10/08/animal-trappings-heydey-is-rightly-over/

Recently, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department was quoted in a promotional media story that trapping of furbearers is gaining in popularity. Hardly! New Hampshire trapping licenses sold in the 2016-2017 season are down to just 479. When the furbearer biologist at the department was asked about this story, he responded that he thought he was being quoted from years past. We would like to remind the department that it is 2017.

Trapping’s heyday is over and it will never come back. People see trapping for what it is – extreme animal cruelty. It isn’t just the slam of the trap that hurts the animal. It is the pulling to escape for hours and hours that causes most of the suffering. How would any of us like to be restrained for hours, not being able…

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