On Thanksgiving, a woman was hiking with her dogs in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest—on the ominously-named Dead Dog Trail—when her dog, Noodles, caught her paw in a steel trap. Noodles has since recovered, but the experience turned the woman into an activist against leg-hold traps on public lands. Opponents to leg-hold traps say that between two and 10 non-targeted animals are trapped for every targeted animal captured. A 2011 investigation in New Mexico by Born Free USA found that cougar cubs and black bears were some of the animals illegally caught in the traps.
Link: Santa Fe New Mexican