Ban Leghold Traps in Maryland
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BAN LEGHOLD TRAPS IN MARYLAND
Our group is working to convince the Maryland legislators to ban the use of steel leghold animal traps in that their use inflicts horrible pain on the trapped animals. Read about this issue below. Please sign our online petition for MARYLAND. Note that you must indicate your county in Maryland in order to have greater impact on the legislators. Thank you for your compassion!
Steel leg hold traps cause animals to die desperate, agonizing deaths.
If you are unfamiliar with the horrors of leghold traps, visit http:/www.banlegholdtraps.com/activ.html.
Traps are placed where animals travel frequently, along creek beds, for instance or in trees. Sometimes the trap locations are baited with urine or sex gland scents that lure the animal to a certain trap.
The animal is surprised, painfully gripped and restrained alive. Not infrequently, the animal is clamped on a part of the body that is excruciatingly painful, such as on an eye, the muzzle, or the abdomen.
In an agony of pain and confusion, the animal struggles in frenzy, often mutilating themselves, dislocating joints, breaking their teeth, chewing their leg or paw in an attempt to break free. If they succeed, the traumatized animal has scant hope for survival in the wild; death will come surely by infection, by starvation or by the animals being an easy prey to their predators. Trappers have a name for the phenomenon of animals chewing off their own extremities to escape; they call it "wring-off". To the trapper, it means they have lost a pelt.
For the animal unable to break free, death is no kinder. Exhaustion and unconsciousness are the kindest possibilities, but there are other, grimmer modes of death in the trap. In some jurisdictions the laws pertaining to checking the traps vary from once every 24 hours to once every five days - and such laws are really unenforceable. An animal who does not die quickly is faced with excruciating pain and a desperately panic-filled wait.
What's Happening in Maryland
During the 2003 General Assembly session, the issue of banning leghold traps was studied. The proposal was rejected. Among other things, the study noted that there are about 1,200 licensed trappers in Maryland. A ban would result in them not buying licenses ($24.50) thus costing the state $8,300 annually. Outrageous! Further, the study states that a leghold trap ban "...could also affect the small businesses that buy fur from trappers and sell it to garment manufacturers." That is precisely what we want to accomplish.
If you wish to read a full transcript of study, send an email to AntiFurSociety@msn.com.
Our group is working to convince the Maryland legislators to ban the use of steel leghold animal traps in that their use inflicts horrible pain on the trapped animals. Read about this issue below. Please sign our online petition for MARYLAND. Note that you must indicate your county in Maryland in order to have greater impact on the legislators. Thank you for your compassion!
Steel leg hold traps cause animals to die desperate, agonizing deaths.
If you are unfamiliar with the horrors of leghold traps, visit http:/www.banlegholdtraps.com/activ.html.
Traps are placed where animals travel frequently, along creek beds, for instance or in trees. Sometimes the trap locations are baited with urine or sex gland scents that lure the animal to a certain trap.
The animal is surprised, painfully gripped and restrained alive. Not infrequently, the animal is clamped on a part of the body that is excruciatingly painful, such as on an eye, the muzzle, or the abdomen.
In an agony of pain and confusion, the animal struggles in frenzy, often mutilating themselves, dislocating joints, breaking their teeth, chewing their leg or paw in an attempt to break free. If they succeed, the traumatized animal has scant hope for survival in the wild; death will come surely by infection, by starvation or by the animals being an easy prey to their predators. Trappers have a name for the phenomenon of animals chewing off their own extremities to escape; they call it "wring-off". To the trapper, it means they have lost a pelt.
For the animal unable to break free, death is no kinder. Exhaustion and unconsciousness are the kindest possibilities, but there are other, grimmer modes of death in the trap. In some jurisdictions the laws pertaining to checking the traps vary from once every 24 hours to once every five days - and such laws are really unenforceable. An animal who does not die quickly is faced with excruciating pain and a desperately panic-filled wait.
What's Happening in Maryland
During the 2003 General Assembly session, the issue of banning leghold traps was studied. The proposal was rejected. Among other things, the study noted that there are about 1,200 licensed trappers in Maryland. A ban would result in them not buying licenses ($24.50) thus costing the state $8,300 annually. Outrageous! Further, the study states that a leghold trap ban "...could also affect the small businesses that buy fur from trappers and sell it to garment manufacturers." That is precisely what we want to accomplish.
If you wish to read a full transcript of study, send an email to AntiFurSociety@msn.com.
824 Signatures
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Rick Martin
- Comment
- Traps are inhumane and shameful!
- Your County in Maryland
- Carroll
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Rosa Close
- Comment
- This is the THIRD MILLENIUM when societies in the world are striving to value all forms of life. These cruel and barbaric methods of torturing animals are shameful and disgusting, they should be stopped immediately.
- Your County in Maryland
- HOWARD COUNTY
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Aaron Ross
- Comment
- Leg hold traps are dangerous not only to wild life but also to our domestic animals. I found a dog a few months ago who had run off into the woods and his foot was severed in a trap. They should be permanently banned now.
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Kerry Duggan
- Comment
- There is no way leghold traps can reasonably be justified. This needs to stop immediately!
- Your County in Maryland
- Carroll
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Abby Bardi
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Patti Restivo
- Comment
- We really don't need to use these.
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Shannon Heaton
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Tasha Segears
- Comment
- These traps are cruel and need to be banned!
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince George's County
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Nikki Ayres
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Aaron McGinnis
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Darlene Ayres
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Cairo McGinnis
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Cash Ayres
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Lisa Randle
- Comment
- In this day in age, it is disappointing and shameful that we even have to sign a petition in an effort to ban these barbaric traps. It should not even be an issue to be debated--we all know it is WRONG and CRUEL. Just imagine for a moment your own dog, cat, rabbit, etc. imprisoned in agony in one of these medieval torture devices...then do the right thing--the ethical, common-sense, now-you-can-sleep-at-night thing--and BAN the use of leghold traps in Maryland.
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Ellen Wieboldt
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Anne Sadler
- Comment
- Leghold traps are completely unnecessary.
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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Thaddeus Wright
- Your County in Maryland
- Calvert
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Carolyn A. Fox
- Comment
- Ban this cruel and inhumane trap!!!
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Carol McLaughlin
- Your County in Maryland
- Richmond, VA
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Derek Hebert
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Laurie Kuhn
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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William Hofherr
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Melanie Coogan
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Wendy Fitch
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery County
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Lana Lehr
- Comment
- End the barbarism.
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Lisa Gooch
- Your County in Maryland
- none
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Morgan Spangler
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince William
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Pia Teehan
- Comment
- Please Ban Painful Leghold Traps in Maryland
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince George's County
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smita kulkarni
- Your County in Maryland
- montgomery
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Kimberly Jeffreys
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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marcelle Lee
- Your County in Maryland
- anne arundel
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Terrin Senez
- Your County in Maryland
- Perry Hall
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mariana
- Comment
- stop killing this beautiful animals pleaseeeeeee
- Your County in Maryland
- hyattsville
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Nikki Gillum
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Dawn Branch
- Comment
- stop this abuse
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Shawn Branch
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Janice S. Earnshaw
- Your County in Maryland
- Charles
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Michele L. Dowdell
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil County
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Sally Duvall
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Erin Huesgen
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil County
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Ashly Walton
- Comment
- This is very important to me.
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Amy Jordan
- Comment
- cruelty to animals
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Katrina Hess
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Jeannie Willems
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Deanna Newman
- Comment
- Please ban these inhumane traps!
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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devon burchett
- Your County in Maryland
- cecil
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Mark Richards
- Your County in Maryland
- somerset county
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Megan Earley
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
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Eleanor Repole
- Comment
- Imagine your pet meeting up with one of these traps!
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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stanley capper
- Your County in Maryland
- charles
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