https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2021/aug/13/animal-trapping-is-barbaric/

LETTER TO THEEDITOR:

By Annoula Wylderich, Las Vegas

Friday, Aug. 13, 2021 | 2 a.m.

Tessa Archibald makes some excellent points in her Aug. 9 guest column, “Trapping has no place in a stressed-out ecosystem.”

This activity is primarily for recreational purposes, and causes prolonged, extensive suffering to animals. It’s an indefensible pursuit that wildlife agencies continue to encourage by permitting the trap check time to be as long as 96 hours, instead of the more humane 24 that some other states have adopted.

Attempts by wildlife advocates and concerned citizens to shorten the trap check time have failed in the past; in the meantime, both targeted and non-targeted animals have fallen victim, including pets. Once caught, they lie helplessly in pain and fear, without food or water and exposed to the elements and other predators. It’s a horrifying fate.

One need only view the archaic torture devices to…