by Trish Swain | Jun 26, 2019 | Veterinarians
March 30, 2013 email
I live at the northern edge of Spanish Springs. All of the houses around me are on 40 acre parcels or larger. A few years ago one of my neighbors had a young male Australian Cattle dog. Very nice friendly dog. One day he went on a walk about and didn’t come home. After about 3-4 days he showed up back home. His left front leg was mangled and almost cut completely off above the first joint. His skull above one eye was crushed right above his eye and he was a bloody mess. The neighbor rushed him to the vet and they were able to save him, after spending over $1000,00.
The Vet figured that the Dog got trapped by a steel leg trap and couldn’t get loose. When the trapper finally checked his trap, he found the dog and tried to club him to death, emptied the trap and left the dog to die. The dog woke up and found his way home.
We could never find the trap or the trapper but we are confident that the trap was set within a few miles of this populated area..
I see this poor dog at least every week and he still has his mangled foot/leg and limps around.
These trappers have to be regulated more closely. The traps need to be registered and the public needs to know where these traps are.
I have horses and dogs. I ride the mountains all around this area meany times with my dogs. The trappers need to place the traps away from populated areas and they HAVE to be required to check the traps every 24 hours.
Trapping is a barbaric practice and there is no reason any animal should be forced to remain trapped for more than 24 hours just because the trapper doesn’t want to have to check the traps every 24 hours !
Thank you for your work to help protect our wildlife and pets !!
Since passage of SB364, law requires trapper ID or NDOW registration number on all traps set on public land. And the public has the right to disturb a trap that poses obvious risk.
by Trish Swain | Jun 26, 2019 | Incidents
March 27, 2013 email
We would like to share with you an event that happened to one of our dogs when we still lived in Nevada.
Our friend, Sandy Bucklew, lives near the end of Grandpa’s Road outside of Searchlight. We and our dogs were visiting with her there in the spring of 2005. Sandy and I had an overnight business trip and Dennis had agreed to stay at Sandy’s place to care for her animals. As Sandy and I were getting into the car to leave I was aware that I was only seeing two of our dogs rather than three. All three had been present earlier.
When we returned the next day we learned that Solly, the missing dog, had spent the day in a trap. Luckily for us all a family had spent the day in the desert and had come upon her just at sunset. Solly was gentle but big enough to be intimidating. The family cared enough to inquire at nearby places and found Sandy’s They then drove Dennis back to the site where Solly was so he could remove her paw from the trap. She had been there all day. The trap had no identification of ownership. Dennis pitched the trap into the shrubs. By the time we thought to look for it the next day, it had disappeared. Sandy had observed a man in the general area a little earlier.
Trailsafe notes that many Incidents include shadowy figures who appear at the scene but deny they are the trapper involved. I cannot find any Incident in which a trapper takes responsibility for damages
by Trish Swain | Jun 24, 2019 | Incidents
Public Comment, March 2013
Please vote for this bill. – SB213 – Finding our registered show dog stuck in one of these barbaric traps after missing for more than 3 hours was heart wrenching. The trap was set less than a thousand feet from our house, on private property without permission, and less than 100 feet from a road/walking trail. We live on a ranch 15 miles from pavement with our nearest neighbor over a mile away. If other people living on this ranch can drive over 40 miles to work every day, trappers can easily visit their traps within 24 hours. This bill should have included a no trap zone of one mile from any residence without written permission from ALL occupants of such residence. The current trapping law in Nevada does not protect domestic pets lured into such an inhumain device.
Testimony like this helped pass SB213, but much remains to be done until trapping on our public lands is banned entirely
by Trish Swain | Jun 24, 2019 | Incidents
Public Comment, March 2013
Traps are placed close to homes,animal suffer for days.My dog was caught in a trap,within 1/4 mile of my residence in a housing estate in Carson City.I was lucky to find my dog, who was in pain in the snow, and I could not release the trap.Over 4 hours later a friend managed to contact a ranger who could release the trap.This was on a weekday at 1pm, on a weekend or after hours this would not have been possible.
Please support SB 213 and pass rules that protect wild animals and human companions enjoying the Nevada wilderness.
I searched for 2 hours to discover my dog in a leg trap on a snow covered hill a 1/4 mile from my residence at 209 Sussex Place, Carson City. I walked out my back gate to a jeep trail on King St. at Longview. Behind a rock at the top of the hill, clearly seen from my backyard, a leg trap was set and baited with a putrid smell and streamers, that sparkled in the wind, to attract animals. The dog was in pain and I could not release the trap.
Needless suffering of animals by trappers for money, who give no consideration to the pain and anguish of beautiful creatures.
[Thanks to testimony like this, SB213 was enacted July, 2013
by Trish Swain | Jun 24, 2019 | Incidents
March 9, 2013 Told in person
About 20 years ago my dog got trapped north of Moon Rocks. He was caught on the chin, so was OK.
