• Nov 9, 2022
• https://www.reformer.com/opinion/letters/letter-trapping-cruelties/article_f7bbec72-53b9-11ed-b95f-bf5f2dda88f6.html

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Email
• Print
• Save

Don’t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/v6.0/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=2257877631166536&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df301873559b0eac%26domain%3Dwww.reformer.com%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.reformer.com%252Ff3193faf8c6c65%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=709&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbrattlebororeformer%2F&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=false&size=small&width=

To the editor: The recreational trapping season in Vermont started on October 22 and runs through March 31. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold and body-gripping kill traps, as well as cage traps that are set underwater that drown multiple animals at once. Traps inflict tremendous fear and suffering upon the trapped animals who are, all too often, not even killed humanely. Drowning, bludgeoning, and strangling are all legal methods of killing trapped animals in Vermont. Not surprisingly, Vermont trappers have fought recent efforts to restrict the method of kill to gunshot only.

https://1c40a16ec59c3b89beb4d70f8397468c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-39/html/container.html?v=1-0-40

Traps not only injure, but also maim, and kill their intended victims; untold numbers of non-targeted animals like owls, eagles, and even turtles are caught every year. They are cavalierly referred to by trappers and…