Animal Trap Leg
Types of animal traps – learn what they are, why they are inhumane, and how to save your pets Types of Traps
Traps and snares indiscriminately lure in wildlife and pets. Animal traps fall under two categories: restraining and killing. Restraining traps hold the animal until the animal dies or the trapper arrives to kill it. Kill traps are meant to result in immediate death and are used either on land or underwater. The terrestrial versions snap the neck or spine. Underwater traps are intended to render the animal unconscious until death—they do not always do so.
Traps do not discriminate between species and often non-target animals are caught. They can capture or kill threatened and endangered species, birds, domestic animals, and even humans.
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Animals frequently sustain injuries from restraining traps, including physiological trauma, dehydration, exposure to weather, predation by other animals, and even death. Animals released from restraining traps may later die from injuries and/or reduced ability to hunt or forage for food.
Leg-hold traps, a type of restraining trap consisting of two jaws that clamp onto an animal’s leg or foot, are so abhorrent that 80 countries and some U.S. states (including Arizona, California, and Colorado) have essentially banned them.
Some propose that if the purpose of capturing an animal is to kill it, then kill traps may be more suitable because the animal is not left in pain, in shock, dehydrated, and at risk for predation, but kill traps are enormously faulty. They can cause a slow, painful, and stressful death for both trapped animals and those that manage to escape the trap. The American Veterinary Medical Association has weighed in against kill traps, noting that they are controversial because they can produce a prolonged, stressful death not within the AVMA’s criteria for euthanasia (2007).
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Donate to our Wolf Defense Fund to fight in the press, courts, and legislatures to ensure wolves can roam free and unharmed across the American West.This article is written by Nandini Singhal , from Amity Law School, Noida. This article is a review of how cruel animal traps are and laws regarding the same.
A leg-hold animal trap is a device that captures animals by their paws forcefully causing cruel injuries and unbearable pain to them. The trap is attached by a metal chain alongside an anchor to keep the animals in that particular area. These are used worldwide to trap animals and later on these animals’ parts are used to make various things like leather jackets, fur coats, etc. These traps are most commonly used on species like coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, and otters to carry on research work (E.g. measuring, marking for identification, or relocation to another habitat). Since the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (1948) is adopted by UNESCO which talks about various rights of animals, such inhumane practices and such devices become a medium of violating such treaties. There are various types of traps like under spring or jump, long spring, coil-spring, guarded, enclosed, etc. In this article, we will discuss various countries’ laws on leg-hold animal traps.
Animals’ rights should be equally important as human rights are, ignoring them is not at all justified. A leg-hold animal trap is one of the worst ways an animal can be tortured and made to suffer. These traps capture the animal and tear through their flesh and break the bones to hold them in place, the immediate reaction of the animal is to pull and push that particular part and they end up hurting themselves even more in the process. They have to suffer till the time they die out of pain or blood loss or till the time the trapper comes and captures them. It is not a form of hunting and is sheer unnecessary torture used just for humans’ benefit. It is completely unjustified to take away someone else’s rights just to make a living for yourself. Using them today has become very controversial, as animals’ rights are highly recognized and a lot of animal welfare organisations are stepping forward to make sure that animals are also protected and such cruel methods of trapping are banned. Trappers argue that they do this to maintain the balance of nature or to trap unwanted animals, but the quantum of pain animals’ suffering is not justified anyhow. Some of the main concerns are :
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Some international laws which aim to protect the animals are the International Convention for the Protection of Animals which covers varied abuses against the animals.
When talking about the USA, it has a federal structure, so every state has its laws. Keeping in mind the cruelty of these traps, some states have gone ahead in creating legislation for banning these traps. Florida, in 1972 , became the first state to ban the traps. Then further, California, Arizona, Colorado, Hawai, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington started banning traps, with New Jersey being one of the few states with strong laws banning traps. Even after these laws were enacted, they did not provide complete protection to animals. Much later, in 1999, after a lot of struggle, finally a Bill was passed to eliminate trapping programs and put a ban on steel-jawed leg-hold traps. While here it becomes important to understand that the sale and buying of fur becomes one of the main reasons why animals get trapped, so a couple of states identified this and put a ban on the sale of fur-made clothes like in California and Washington . But at some places, businessmen retaliated against this law as they would be left without business then, so they were asked to put a label on how these animals were killed.
The Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS) lays down the guidelines and international standards for the approval of traps being used. This agreement was finally implemented in the UK in 2020. In 2018, Defra announced the implementation of AIHTS in the UK. Some considerable changes were made in the laws like Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , Humane Trapping Standards Regulation 2019 , Spring Traps Approval (England) Order 2018 , Spring Traps Approval (Wales) Order 2019 , etc. From 1 April 2020, Fenn-type traps are banned and new standards for the approval traps are imposed. In DPP v. Kavanagh (2019) , the appellant was sentenced to three years imprisonment for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to the animals. The Court recognized the incident as a truly shocking one and posing threat to animal rights and once again implying the importance of compassion towards animals as well.
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There is a myth among the Canadian people that just like the regular toothed trap all other non-harmful leg-hold traps are banned in Canada, but this is not true. Several other types of leg-hold traps are still legal and widely used . These models include the “padded”, “offset” and “laminated”. Leg-hold traps that are currently used in Canada:
In India, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 is implemented to ban any kind of cruelty against animals, and Section 11 of this particular Act bans cruelty. One of the loopholes of the PCA Act is that penalties for violating the provisions range from just rupees 10 to 50, which does not justify the offence committed. Another provision in the Indian Constitution is Article 51A(g) which says that it becomes important for every citizen to have compassion for all. In Francis Coralie Mullins v. Union of India (1981) , the Court held that the right to life is not limited to mere animal existence but also includes the right to live with dignity, hence, every citizen must have compassion for all including the animals. Further, the court has interpreted Article 21 r/w 51A(g) to further the ends of social justice. Then there is the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 which lays down the laws to protect wild animals, it prohibits any kind of harm to animals in one or another way.
A person can make use of laws by sending a legal notice first to abusers, if no action is taken then a person can go ahead and file a complaint under Section 50(4) of the Wildlife Protection Act and an individual can be arrested under Section 43 of CrPC for a non-bailable and cognizable offence. In a landmark judgment, Animal Welfare Board of India v. A. Nagaraja and Ors. (2014) , it was held that no cruelty against the animals would be tolerated and the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and governments were directed to take necessary steps in care and well being of animals and also to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain against the animals. In another case, the State of U.P. v. Mustakeem and Ors .(2019 ), it was held that if anywhere it was found that goats were slaughtered in a cruel manner they were to be rescued from there and kept under state’s supervision, implying that animals are not to be subjected to any kind of cruelty in any form.
Kickass And The Leg Hold Trap
Leg-hold animal traps pose a risk to both targeted and non-targeted animals, therefore it becomes necessary to regulate the use
Some international laws which aim to protect the animals are the International Convention for the Protection of Animals which covers varied abuses against the animals.
When talking about the USA, it has a federal structure, so every state has its laws. Keeping in mind the cruelty of these traps, some states have gone ahead in creating legislation for banning these traps. Florida, in 1972 , became the first state to ban the traps. Then further, California, Arizona, Colorado, Hawai, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington started banning traps, with New Jersey being one of the few states with strong laws banning traps. Even after these laws were enacted, they did not provide complete protection to animals. Much later, in 1999, after a lot of struggle, finally a Bill was passed to eliminate trapping programs and put a ban on steel-jawed leg-hold traps. While here it becomes important to understand that the sale and buying of fur becomes one of the main reasons why animals get trapped, so a couple of states identified this and put a ban on the sale of fur-made clothes like in California and Washington . But at some places, businessmen retaliated against this law as they would be left without business then, so they were asked to put a label on how these animals were killed.
The Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS) lays down the guidelines and international standards for the approval of traps being used. This agreement was finally implemented in the UK in 2020. In 2018, Defra announced the implementation of AIHTS in the UK. Some considerable changes were made in the laws like Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , Humane Trapping Standards Regulation 2019 , Spring Traps Approval (England) Order 2018 , Spring Traps Approval (Wales) Order 2019 , etc. From 1 April 2020, Fenn-type traps are banned and new standards for the approval traps are imposed. In DPP v. Kavanagh (2019) , the appellant was sentenced to three years imprisonment for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to the animals. The Court recognized the incident as a truly shocking one and posing threat to animal rights and once again implying the importance of compassion towards animals as well.
Family Frees Fox After Their Dog Is Nearly Caught In A Trap
There is a myth among the Canadian people that just like the regular toothed trap all other non-harmful leg-hold traps are banned in Canada, but this is not true. Several other types of leg-hold traps are still legal and widely used . These models include the “padded”, “offset” and “laminated”. Leg-hold traps that are currently used in Canada:
In India, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 is implemented to ban any kind of cruelty against animals, and Section 11 of this particular Act bans cruelty. One of the loopholes of the PCA Act is that penalties for violating the provisions range from just rupees 10 to 50, which does not justify the offence committed. Another provision in the Indian Constitution is Article 51A(g) which says that it becomes important for every citizen to have compassion for all. In Francis Coralie Mullins v. Union of India (1981) , the Court held that the right to life is not limited to mere animal existence but also includes the right to live with dignity, hence, every citizen must have compassion for all including the animals. Further, the court has interpreted Article 21 r/w 51A(g) to further the ends of social justice. Then there is the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 which lays down the laws to protect wild animals, it prohibits any kind of harm to animals in one or another way.
A person can make use of laws by sending a legal notice first to abusers, if no action is taken then a person can go ahead and file a complaint under Section 50(4) of the Wildlife Protection Act and an individual can be arrested under Section 43 of CrPC for a non-bailable and cognizable offence. In a landmark judgment, Animal Welfare Board of India v. A. Nagaraja and Ors. (2014) , it was held that no cruelty against the animals would be tolerated and the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and governments were directed to take necessary steps in care and well being of animals and also to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain against the animals. In another case, the State of U.P. v. Mustakeem and Ors .(2019 ), it was held that if anywhere it was found that goats were slaughtered in a cruel manner they were to be rescued from there and kept under state’s supervision, implying that animals are not to be subjected to any kind of cruelty in any form.
Kickass And The Leg Hold Trap
Leg-hold animal traps pose a risk to both targeted and non-targeted animals, therefore it becomes necessary to regulate the use
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