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iO n Haltons C E Bud Snow page Community news page 17 Home of Hills SECTION Pros and cons of the leghold trap Ail overview of trapping controversy Trappers own art Trapping was mill contributes in a million dolhr world Even ihough Hills appears pirt of I llif urbanized of nitre is sufficient wildlife re support luted working in tin 1978 mink muskrai furs here during Just is progress Mis bun made over in so industries so tripping many pis which invokes restrictions in the lies with a sen to could drop mil spot now obtain a from the Ministry who hnu at the job for and oil mi throb gel trouble but peoplt out in the business ire expected to and pass 10weck course on trapping offered corn munity Since trappers tarry J gun they must also hive hunting regulations this will mem the Irapprrs must be Id Trappers must also obtain lindowner on whose property it outcry ihosc who trip profit the recenl public out cry over the use of hold traps is incomprehensible There is no such thing as a humane in nature cording to Art experienced trapper who works in Hills townships who isn t of Ih it should watch kill a nothing humane about thai but it perfectly John Tyres of traps In Kills and Milton and is unh for a difftrcnt reison I trap for pleasure he told The recently love to hunt fish trap anything to do with the outdoors and I feel Experienced trappers testimony recounts pain and mutilation Ik I I will UN you of trips On the twelfth diy it tht trip we sil iltnosl In tie first foot I hi rip is ill mil chewed up by mink in Us iffort to iscipe Hit mink is i struggles mil pulls 10 git Ioom It writhes and Iwistsdt per iltlv il within and time from t pre sure of the jiws of Irap and the swelling of the leg from pain tin ition of blood stops ind fool bo il mts numb lln pain struggles iws lilt trip tit I up into tin air Idingks struggling of its miiiR from out Then rob 11 this Its ufftn power do pollen leg When struggles violently and then length ol the chain B signs I it has been ought iboul ten das Alvnxlivismuthlongir m i Irip tli in is dud died in the Ihir I llu foil other hit know ange re ire signs a lernfic struggle from txpcriint 1 know mink lived three or four days and then died of hunger ind pain is lacerated imt I who wanl to i that who Knows nothing about should try take that privilege away from me Trappers do provide a very necessary service Mr Hawes added We can trans port animals to other habitats forever Is only so much area suitable for a species and when thai used up what do thorn The animals have to be controlled or they use up their habitat and die of starvation and that not pleasant Trapping gels a lot of bad publicity and it time dipt tiding on the After the foot innus numb or frozen the mink dcspcnttly ago with urn will chew it Sometimes it will chew off the trip lie Iht fool out Atithirlimesitwillchew it itself of the trap by chewing and twisting tif it does not to death first some times several especially if he bone has been broken sevtr 1st smew holding leg and fool and iscipe On i long line we lose about a third the for Hint wet lilt traps I whtn got there but very try thin The feu of the lynx ace so large thai unless it steps fairly in middle of he trap it is and is the ihys go In the blood Tin slump leg skin ll all rip squu tighter till hey jomlst f tin bonis Somttimi s tht sudden jerks of ak the last shreds ind it Is fret By thai time the whole of the caught fool is illj so the knx dit from i rolling fool Of ill hi deKhs caused tr I think thai from fool tli in out ind rotting is most When w will find ill Ihil irea will lit i miss of blood coloured sickk I substance indu Ihe suffer mg it Ins g through Ih rt released it The trip is severing the last shreds of the ind thin a few hours away mink died is slretched out as threw ilself in Ihe last spasm ind frozen hard ind stiff The fur is fine and glossy lovely neckpiete will our his to loeiti the lodges Ihin report sue and lotatic of thist dfts tht ministry implnytis no trapper reports his findings and fly over areas to check for themselves it iht