Cat Trapped Near Hunter Lake Elementary School
Summer 2001: A cat was trapped near Hunter Lake Elementary school. Cat was taken to NHS veterinary clinic. – Individual prefers to remain anonymous
Trap Set in Residential Area
Summer 2001: Coughlin Ranch area near residences, within city limits. Skunk caught in a leghold trap. Leg was broken; bad injury. Animal eventually ran away. NHS, Animal Control and NDOW personnel were on scene. NDOW said it was legal to set this trap in residential area. – Told in person by individual who wants to remain anonymous
Sunshine Loses 5 Teeth to a Trap Near Lee Canyon
April, 2000: Sunshine, a golden retriever,was caught in a coyote trap in Macks Canyon near Lee Canyon in Mt. Charleston while I was mountain biking and I couldn’t find her for 5 hours. By that time she had tried to bite the trap from her leg so much that she had to have 5 teeth surgically removed.
NDOW did nothing but send an officer up here and tell me:
1) I had to return the trap, but it was not identified.
2) Tough luck- 200 feet from a road that really isn’t a road (although it is county maintained, it is just a 4 mile dirt road that goes to nowhere- used for recreation in the mountains).
I made a stink about it and got coverage from 2 TV news stations. So that was the end of that. I have no doubt that it hastened Sunshine’s death later that year – Stephanie Myers
Trapper Jane Rescued by Nevada Humane Society
Sunday, August 22, 2010
News Release – Nevada Humane Society
On Sunday, August 22, 2010, another cat was found in a leg-hold trap, this time in Golden Valley. Now named Trapper Jane, the two-year-old black and white domestic feline, was caught in a leg hold trap and picked up by a Washoe County Animal Services Officer. After being treated at a local veterinary clinic and finishing the five-day legal hold period for stray pets, she was transferred to Nevada Humane Society on August 29.
Her crushed toes were amputated Sunday morning at the NHS clinic and she will be under veterinarian care at NHS for the next month. Her recovery will require ongoing wound care and pain management, but she should in time be able to walk and become available for adoption.
Trapper Jane runs a tight ship here at the house.
Cat, Skunk and Raccoon Trapped in Sparks Park
Reno Gazette Journal article March 17, 2010, by Mark Robison: “Cat caught in leghold trap in Sparks park – Fernley man cited”
A cat was nearly drowned and suffered a leg injury, a skunk was cruelly trapped and later shot in the head, a raccoon may have been trapped as well. All this in a Sparks park where children and pets play. This is the clearest story to date of the need for banning traps in all Reno-Sparks congested areas. Also points out urgent need for trapper ID on all traps.
The little skunk endured a night of agony like this. Then NDOW personnel shot him in the head the next day because skunks are an “unprotected” species in Nevada.
This took place in a public park. Since there was no ID on the traps, Nevada Dept. of Wildlife (NDOW) wardens had to stake out the area. Eventually the trapper was found and cited, not because his traps endangered families recreating in the park, but because he illegally baited one of his traps. This Cottonwood Park episode provided a major argument for banning trapping in Washoe County congested areas.