It's time to END trapping on NM's public lands!

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[Super1builder]

Bring your camera... in fact bring as many as you can. I have no problem teaching you and your group that trapping is an effective tool to aid in keeping healthy populations. Be forwarned however, that you will not see torture, bloody paws, broken bones or the like. You may even capture the animal ASLEEP waiting for us. Just to show you and your group that the animal is not harmed, I will RELEASE the animal for your cameras. You will have to wear a trap on your hand if you plan on coming along.

[TrapFreeNM]

Please visit our website at trapfreenm where we do have photos of the injuries traps cause. Animals may be sleeping when you arrive, but the trap circles and churned up earth tell a story of what happened when you were not present. Traps can injure animals severely, and they aren't even always the intended animals.

[TrapFreeNM]

We also submit that animals you think you are releasing unharmed may in fact have injuries that are not readily visible like tooth damage, torn muscles and ligaments, and bone fractures all of which can preclude survival and/or high levels of stress-related neurochemicals that can cause capture myopathy, a fatal condition that won't manifest for a couple of days.

[Super1builder]

So I take it your interested in my offer? I thought you were interested in the truth about trapping and not what is portrayed as the truth by some uniformed, uneducated individual(s). Have any of you from this group actually taken ANY time to see first hand the real truth about trapping? Or are all of you simple minded enough to believe 100% in what you are told is the truth? If that's the case I feel sorry for you and your group. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. Educate.

[TrapFreeNM]

Our experiences do form our views. When traps are placed on public land, the public will inevitably find them and have negative experiences. The pictures at our website did not take themselves. The wildlife suffering is there for everyone to see. The lack of data about the true effect the exploitation has on wildlife including non-target captures is glaring. And when there is data, as with endangered Mexican wolves, it does not match what you are purporting.

[TrapFreeNM]

The stories in the press about dogs being trapped and the witness accounts their owners provide about what a horrible ordeal it is are not the words of the uninformed. Now, rather than addressing our points, your arguments have descended into insults. We are indeed engaged in education.

[TrapFreeNM]

Moreover, we are not asking nature to be humane. We are asking humans to be that way. The word human and humane have the same root. It is our capacity for mercy, empathy and kindness that gives us our humanity. It makes our species unique and noble.

[TrapFreeNM]

Necrosis infection had set in by the time researchers found the wolf and veterinarians decided to amputate the entire leg in January of 2009. The FWS acknowleges it was a trap injury. The wolf is AM871 and can easily be googled. He is famous because his mate is also 3-legged but the cause is unknown.

 Another wolf, M1039 managed to pull the trap from it's mooring and by the time he could be captured, again necrosis had set in so his leg was also amputated.

[cgrsworld]

Super1builder - where are you? I might be interested in bringing a video camera to come out on the line with you, if you are anywhere in my vicinity.

[TrapFreeNM]

We also wonder if trapping is effective at removing disease why your trapping area has diseased animals year after year.

Treating animals as if they were devoid of sensation, feeling and sentience is disrespectful to them. Trust us, we have been invited on the trapline several times and invitation disappears as soon as we request to bring a video camera along.

[TrapFreeNM]

From the CDC about rabies, "Continuous and persistent programs for trapping or poisoning wildlife are not effective in reducing wildlife rabies reservoirs"

[TrapFreeNM]

From this paper about zoonotic pathogens in wildlife: "Recent examples of rabies in foxes in Europe, bTB in badgers in the United Kingdom, and even classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa) tend to show that disease control by lethal methods is difficult to achieve in large populations of wildlife with a high turnover rate."