Trapping Incident #238
Reported:
10/01/1997
Location:
Ellicott City, MD - USA
Species:
Cat
Trap Type:
Leghold
Incident Date:
Victim's Disposition:
injured
Victim's Name:
Barney
Legal Action:
No
Summary:
A woman found her cat deep in the woods behind her house, caught in a steel trap that luckily didn’t have teeth. After about 10 hours in the trap, he suffered soft tissue damage and was in a cast for at least a month. “I was lucky to have found him,” she writes, “and it was on county park property.” She reported the incident to park authorities, and adds, “I think local rednecks were setting traps on park property because it’s one of the only large wooded areas in a densely populated area. Maybe they intended to trap muskrats or who knows what. I contacted the park and took someone to the site but the trap was gone … word about the incident had gotten out through neighbors and the trap was retrieved by the culprit.”
Result: