How to Help Stop Inhumane Animal Trapping

Trapping animals with steel-jawed led-hold traps is inhumane and cruel. Animal welfare organizations are working to end this barbaric custom. Follow the steps below to learn how you can help stop needless suffering by animals ensnared in these antiquated, indiscriminate devices.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Educate yourself about the inhumane and cruel nature of this barbaric custom. Visit www.bancrueltraps.org for information on traps and poisons used to capture and kill animals for their fur and for predator control.
2. Participate in setting government policy, joining thousands of your fellow citizens, by contacting your state and federal legislative delegate. Request she support legislation that ends funding for this inhumane practice on public and private lands.
3. Contact your veterinarian. Urge her to request that veterinary associations support efforts to stop trapping, ending needless suffering by countless numbers of wild animals and pets, and that alternitive methods of predator control be used.
4. Spread the word. Tell your friends what you have learned, and urge them to join you and other concerned people that support efforts to end trapping.
5. Contact ProPAW (Protect Pets and Wildlife), e-mail [e-mail], and ask how you can assist as they work to place legislation on the November 2000 ballots in Oregon and Washington restricting use of cruel traps and poisons.
6. Contribute your time and money to help end the use of cruel traps and dangerous poisons.
7. Join the Humane Society of The United States, American Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Doris Day Animal League, The Fund For Animals, The International Fund for Animal Wefare or other such organizations and support this worthwhile cause.

Tips & Warnings

• 89 countries, the European Union and four states in the US have banned or restricted the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps.
• The American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Animal Hospital Association have position statements that declare leg-hold traps to be inhumane and cruel.