Please sign this petition

**kerryclair** · 01-13-2007, 03:55 PM

Could you all please sign this petition for me?
My dog, on Christmas morning was caught in a steel leghold trap and I am trying to get it stopped. Could you please also spread the word to your friends, family and any other lists you are on, requesting that people sign this? I need 1000 signatures to present it to the DEC.

Thanks so much, in advance for your help!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/503342738

**smiffy** · 01-14-2007, 04:02 AM

SIGNED XXX

**kerryclair** · 01-14-2007, 10:15 PM

Thanks Smiffy!

**smiffy** · 01-15-2007, 03:20 AM

was your dog badly injured? if so i bet you had hell of a trouble finding a vet xmas morn!!!

**kerryclair** · 01-15-2007, 08:16 PM

Thankfully we have a 24 hour emergency vet here in town.. they are open only nights and weekends...but she was ok. Swollen a little but my husband got it off quickly and she was not too badly hurt.

**smiffy** · 01-16-2007, 03:17 AM

thats good to hear. i know it must be a massive shock but the damage could have been a lot worse for her xx

**celtechfarms** · 01-16-2007, 07:25 AM

Signed, around here its snare traps that are the problem. Dogs get cought in them all the time.

**kerryclair** · 01-16-2007, 07:03 PM

What is a snare trap? What is the difference between that and a leg hold?
Does the snare have those spikes?
People are terrible.
How can anyone set these things?

**smiffy** · 01-17-2007, 03:39 AM

we used to have a lot of snare traps in the uk but they've been outlawed now but i think poachers still use them. as far as i remember its like an open metal mouth and when you step on the trigger in the middle its released and grabs you. i think from memory it has teeth but not spikes.