Stray Rescue traveled to Perryville after a group of neighbors struggled to catch the stray dog more than a week after he was first spotted injured.
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Published: Jan. 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM PST|Updated: 21 hours ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -A young dog is now in the care of a St. Louis animal rescue after being injured by a hunting trap in rural Missouri.
According to non-profit Stray Rescue, the dog was first spotted by neighbors in Perryville a few weeks ago. The dog was seen with his back leg caught in a hunting trap, limping around with the trap attached to his paw.
After more than a week of trying to catch him, nearby homeowners were successful, removing the hunting trap and handing the dog over to Stray Rescue in St. Louis.
“These things shut so tightly, they just completely caught off circulation, so he had no blood flood essentially from his ankle down,” said Dr. Edie Oliver, a veterinarian at Stray Rescue.
The one-year-old Husky-Shepard mix is now named Behrle and on Monday, the decision was made to amputate his back leg, due to the injury caused by the trap.
“The good thing about his back leg being gone is dogs recover really well with that leg, since they put the majority of their weight on their front legs,” said Dr. Oliver. “So in a matter of weeks he’ll be up and about like nothing ever happened.”
Donna Lochmann is Stray Rescue’s Chief Life Saving Officer and traveled down to Perryville, nearly daily, in an attempt to catch Behrle. In her years of animal rescue, she’s never seen a dog caught in a hunting trap like this.
“No, I actually have never seen a trap like that attached to a dog,” she said. “I’ve heard of them and I feel like they’re so inhumane.”
Using hunting traps like the that injured Behrle is not illegal in Missouri, but veterinarians encourage hunters to use other means for catching animals.
“If you want to do trapping and that kind of thing there are way more humane ways to do it,” said Dr. Oliver. “He was able to drag this around but usually they’re staked in the ground and that’s assuming someone is coming around regularly to check them.”
Behrle will spend the next few weeks recovering, before being placed in a foster home and becoming ready for adoption.
“He’s a stray, but he’s such a good boy,” said Dr. Oliver. “Sweet, calm and I think he’ll continue to get more comfortable.”
Exposing the Big Game 
I so wish trappers could get their peckers caught in their own goddamn traps, so they could understand the hell on earth they perpetrate…..