Mangled raccoon caught in Vancouver-area trap sparks reward for information

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By WANYEE LIStarMetro Vancouver
Thu., Sept. 20, 2018

VANCOUVER—An animal rights organization wants to track down the person responsible for trapping a B.C. raccoon and mangling its leg so badly that it had to be put down.

The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals is offering a $1,000 reward for any information about an incident the last week of August where a raccoon was found near Mount Leham in Abbotsford, with its leg caught in a trap. Critter Care Wildlife Society confirmed it treated a raccoon that had been caught in a trap in the Abbotsford area on Aug. 31, 2018.

Animal rights organizations argue leghold traps are an inhumane way of dealing with wildlife-human conflicts.
Animal rights organizations argue leghold traps are an inhumane way of dealing with wildlife-human conflicts.  (LOIC VENANCE / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Staff from Critter Care as well as Coastal Rivers Pet Hospital attempted to save the raccoon by amputating two of the racoon’s toes that had been…

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2 thoughts on “Mangled raccoon caught in Vancouver-area trap sparks reward for information”

  1. these lousy trappers gets 50cents for some of these animals furs. stop all trapping all over the usa. its time. we are sick of this hrorible abuse of animals

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