Karenina Schuller: We had a big problem behind Johnson Lane in Minden, NV, where someone put traps & POISON. We train search & rescue dogs there! Others run their pet dogs there. What if a canine patrol dog is out there and is in a trap or gets poisoned?? What a waste! The coyote eats the dead rodents & die, then who else in the food chain? It’s not allowed to put any poison in Lake Tahoe basin for rodents or whatever. Still somebody didn’t like the goose poop & ended up poisoning pets in the area. This has got to stop! Working with Search & Rescue units and seeing the on-going/forever training it takes, this would be an immense tragedy!
. . . we never worked or rode back there after hearing other dogs were trapped or poisoned.
Dec. 3, 2010 TestimonyNevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners (NBWC) Meeting Dorismae Weber’s dog was caught in a trap that was not 1,000 feet from a trail in the picnic area of Galena Park.
November 3, 2007, the Board of Wildlife Commissioners gave unanimous approval to new regulation that will guarantee no trapping using steel traps or snares be permitted within 1000 feet of the following trails within Washoe County: Hunter Creek Trail, Thomas Creek Trail, Ophir Creek Trail, Whites Creek Trail, Jones Creek Trail, Tahoe Rim Trail. By this action, the regulation becomes part of Nevada Administrative Code.
Minutes Dec. 3, 2010 Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners Meeting
. . . Commissioner Vogler said . . . on the rare occasion that a unleashed dog stumbles into a trap makes him feel very bad and he had it happen to his own dog. . . .If you are a good trapper you will do everything not to trap a dog as no market for dog fur that he knows of.
My neighbors’ cat was trapped right here in the center of Carson City….the little sweetie lost her leg. As a Nevada resident, I am deeply concerned about how my community treats its animals and the manner in which our animals are controlled and managed. . . .
On
July 24, 2004, my husband Rob, myself and our daughter Jade
went for a hike on the terraces at Ward
Mountain. We drove to the terraces via the Lion Springs
road and did not see any postings for government trapping; it was posted on
another access road but not the one that we used. When we got to the terraces we went on our
hike on the main road and about 10 minutes into the hike our dog Dice got his
foot caught in a trap that had been set 5
feet from the roadway by a government trapper.
He
was howling in pain and I had to try to hold him while he was biting me so that
my husband could remove the trap, I physically could not have removed the trap
by myself. We were all very traumatized
by this event and could not believe that a government trap would be set so
close to a public roadway, what if a small child had stumbled on to this trap? These traps could easily brake the leg of a
small child or domestic dog. What if a
family was driving or walking on this roadway and a wild animal had been caught
in the trap and they had to witness this torturous, painful event?
My
husband contacted the agency responsible for this careless act and was told
that it is illegal for government traps or commercial traps to be set so close
to a roadway and that they would be removed.
We
would like to hike in this area again but have not returned in the seven years
that have passed because we are still traumatized by what happened and too afraid
that our dogs will get caught in a trap.
This
type of illegal trapping practice should never be allowed to happen, traps
should never be placed in an area where people, children or domestic animals
are present.
I
have included pictures of the trap and its proximity to the roadway.
