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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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Stephanie S
- Your County in Maryland
- Hamburg
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Vera P
- Your County in Maryland
- 3840 Borgloon - Belgium
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Marie-Claire T
- Your County in Maryland
- FRANCE
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Jelena B
- Your County in Maryland
- serbia
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van den H
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- Would these people be pleasantly surprised if they stick their own legs in a leghold trap??...let them try and then ask them what it feels like....I think some human beings are a disaster for the human race but most of all for the innocent animals all over the world.
- Your County in Maryland
- Netherlands
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Aubrey
- Your County in Maryland
- Kent
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Sam S
- Comment
- BAN LEGHOLD TRAPS!
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore county
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Elizabeth J
- Comment
- I have a sole message for these criminals who dare break the boundries and abuse of earth's most sacred animals for profit. Put your own leg in a trap, and see how you'll feel. Go underwater and trap yourself, abuser, and see how humane it is to drown. No kind of trapping, underwater or above on ground, is humane. Let everyone know that.
- Your County in Maryland
- Calvert
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Mike C
- Comment
- I dare everyone who is compassionate and sees this comment to sign this petition. Translaccion en Espanol: Todo el mundo que sea compassionado, firme este peticion. You will feel guilty if you don't, and that's not the problem, the problem is whether this cruel treatment continues. Te vas a sentir muy culpable si no firmas esto, pero eso no es el problema, el problema es si este estilo de abuso continua. Sign this, Maryland neighbors, and bring together a grand sense of unity. Together, we can do anything for our animal companions. Firmemos esto y asemos un sentido de unidad. Nosotros, junto, podemos aser cual quir cosa. As Maryland animal lovers, we can save animals, one signature at a time. Como residentes de Maryland, podemos salvar animales, una firma al tiempo. And if you hate some people who oppose leghold traps, hate them, but care for animals. Y si tu odias por una manera alguien que esta encontra de este abuso, odia los, pero proteje a animales.
- Your County in Maryland
- Calvert
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Mr.Johnson
- Comment
- i cry everyday for my dog Lazy, who I had to euthanize in an animal shelter because she had immense pain after getting caught in a trap put by some fur farmer. BAN LEGHOLD TRAPS!
- Your County in Maryland
- Allegany County, near the mountains
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luis m
- Comment
- stop this
- Your County in Maryland
- Peru
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Sфnia Pinheiro M
- Your County in Maryland
- Rio de Janeiro Paнs Brasil
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Doris V
- Your County in Maryland
- San Pedro
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Linda
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- Is there not a better way?
- Your County in Maryland
- USA
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T.
- Your County in Maryland
- usa
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Sandra S
- Comment
- Stop animal cruelty!
- Your County in Maryland
- Mexico City
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Abigail G. M
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery County
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Evelyn C
- Your County in Maryland
- Carroll County
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Claudia P
- Comment
- Act like a human !!!
- Your County in Maryland
- Maryland
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mirna m
- Your County in Maryland
- croatia
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Roni L
- Your County in Maryland
- Israel
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Lisa S
- Your County in Maryland
- 2000 Neuchвtel - Switzerland
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Joshua L
- Comment
- Leghold traps take cruelty to a whole new level. Please support this bill.
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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George V
- Comment
- В
- Your County in Maryland
- London - UK
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sophia
- Comment
- sad
- Your County in Maryland
- usa
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rolando
- Comment
- sad
- Your County in Maryland
- usa
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nicole
- Comment
- please outlaw this cruel inhumane act
- Your County in Maryland
- usa
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Alison
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Cristina
- Your County in Maryland
- Brasil
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Michelle W
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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Michaela B
- Your County in Maryland
- Australia
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Tess T
- Your County in Maryland
- Non USA resident
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DARMON
- Your County in Maryland
- france
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Abrehet A
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Karen S
- Comment
- If you are in a position with the power to ban archaic cruel devices such as the Leghold trap, then even the slightest sense of personal morality would dictate that you do.
- Your County in Maryland
- Ireland
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selene m
- Comment
- Ban Leghold traps it's cruel and savage like
- Your County in Maryland
- herndon virginia
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Cristina S
- Your County in Maryland
- Anadia Portugal
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Elizabeth F
- Comment
- We are such a horrible species! We are cruel and evil to all others! One day we will pay for our crimes.
- Your County in Maryland
- Soddy Daisy
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Jeannie B
- Your County in Maryland
- United States
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Thunderrwolf
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- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Lynn B. P
- Your County in Maryland
- N/A
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cristina
- Your County in Maryland
- mexico
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Albertina R
- Comment
- Despertar das trevas do passado
- Your County in Maryland
- Alagoinhas/Ba /Brasil
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Rebeca Maltйs E
- Your County in Maryland
- Chile
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Kao B
- Comment
- I'd like to snap their legs, see how it feels.
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Joseph M
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- Please stop this brutal act of torture.
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Zach K
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- This is wrong mr britt and you know it
- Your County in Maryland
- new york
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c j
- Your County in Maryland
- UK
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Daniela F
- Your County in Maryland
- portugal
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Brissaud
- Your County in Maryland
- France
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