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]
824 Signatures
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Laura F
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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Sandra G
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince George
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tramelle s
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- Please ban these, they are not the right way to capture animals. It is very cruel and hurtful to these animals, they have feelings too
- Your County in Maryland
- baltimore city
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Theresa M
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore
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Justin G
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Adriane L
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Maryanna S
- Comment
- A cruel practice that has outlived its time. It should be outlawed.
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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nicole m
- Comment
- i belive that people that hurt animals shoud be hurt in the same way, see if they like it
- Your County in Maryland
- montgomery county
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Diana C
- Comment
- Please ban these horrors
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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william s
- Comment
- There are more humane ways to trap the animal, IT JUST REQUIRES MORE SWEAT. Hard work is a part of any reward for a business endeavor.
- Your County in Maryland
- baltimore
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Kathleen M. H
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Sally G
- Comment
- This is horrific and inhumane.
- Your County in Maryland
- Baltimore City
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Cindy I
- Your County in Maryland
- Carroll
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nicole m
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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david b
- Comment
- enough said
- Your County in Maryland
- baltimore city
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Victoria L. B
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- PLEEEEEZE STOP THIS NOW !!!!
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince George's
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Kathy J. S
- Your County in Maryland
- Dorchester
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Susan Lofland G
- Comment
- leghold traps only mean that a poor animal will be made to suffer and die slowly. Surely we as humans should be above this.
- Your County in Maryland
- Charles
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Christina C
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery County
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Mary J. I
- Comment
- this is animal cruelty
- Your County in Maryland
- baltimore
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Lynn N
- Comment
- Please end this inhumane practice
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Dinah F
- Comment
- The cruelty inflicted by leghold traps has no place in a modern society.
- Your County in Maryland
- Harford
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Cinthia F
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery Co
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Andrea P
- Your County in Maryland
- Charles
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Debra B
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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diana f j
- Comment
- ban these traps
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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PK J
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Jackie D
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince Georges
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Angela S
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Helen B
- Your County in Maryland
- out of state
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Amy M
- Comment
- STOP THE TRAPS
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Michael A
- Comment
- This is disgusting and a civilized society should not participate in such barbarism.
- Your County in Maryland
- montgomery
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Kathy S
- Comment
- These traps are cruel to animals and should be done away as soon as possible.
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Ron S
- Your County in Maryland
- Cecil
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Hatice Y
- Comment
- Stop killing innocent, harmless animals. Эt is cruelty!!!
- Your County in Maryland
- Turkey
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Nancy R
- Comment
- Ban Leghold TRAPS in Maryland!!!!
- Your County in Maryland
- Howord County 21042
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Annette H
- Comment
- hard to believe such cruelty still exists in a civilised society!
- Your County in Maryland
- Montgomery
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Thomas P
- Your County in Maryland
- Salt Lake City
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Jennifer C. G
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- Let's stop animal cruelty , Now!
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Ellen R
- Comment
- This barbaric action is not befitting a civilized state
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Robyn R
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard
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Shannon R
- Your County in Maryland
- Anne Arundel
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riffard
- Your County in Maryland
- france
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Elizabeth B
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- We are one of the wealthiest counties in the United States and I would hate to think prt of that wealth was earned through the torture of innocent wild animals and god forbid a pet exploring the woods for fun or who lost its way. Leghold traps are terribly inhumane and the act of trapping is repulsive, this is not how I want my state to be represented.
- Your County in Maryland
- Howard County
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Guyot
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- Your County in Maryland
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Ramon C
- Your County in Maryland
- Prince George's
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Renee B
- Comment
- stop animal cruelty
- Your County in Maryland
- ...
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Anne T
- Your County in Maryland
- england
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Jeannie D
- Your County in Maryland
- Carroll County
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Rachel
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- I'm not from Maryland but I think it is so horrible that the governor & legislators wont help these poor animals.Please take a reality check and look whats going on,how can you not do anything!
- Your County in Maryland
- US
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