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On the family’s regular visit to a small patch of wilderness near Lacey, Smokey swallowed a barbed hook, baited with meat and wrapped about a pile of wood. She couldn’t move because the hook was embedded in her throat. The baited hooks were set for a coyote “bait station” and are legal in Washington.

West of Crow Peak, a trapper found a dead mountain lion in one of his snares, set for coyotes. A game warden of South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish & Park says they see snared mountain lions “maybe a couple a year.”

On the edge of a cornfield in pathway, Belle’s foot was caught in a Conibear 220 trap. Her caregiver stood on the triggers, pushed down, and released her.

Sizerville State Park, PA — A dog was in the trap for an estimated 18 hours.

A bobcat was found in a snare set for raccoons, northwest of Kalona.

2 trappers freed a grey wolf they caught in a coyote trap, after the USDA Wildlife Services placed a radio collar on the wolf. The same trappers also caught wolf pups in their coyote traps in 2002 and released them.

Reports of missing “pets” led police to find a steel leghold trap with a cat’s paw in it at a man’s home. The man was fined $250 for using an illegal trap.

A 62-year-old man was charged with felony animal cruelty for hanging a cat with a snare. The trap was intended to catch raccoons raiding his backyard goldfish ponds.

A radio-collared wolf was part of a study conducted by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources scientists to evaluate the impact of a temporary moratorium on wolf killing in all townships adjacent to Algonquin Park. Researchers discovered that a wire neck snare had slowly killed the wolf, found lying in a pool of blood.

A radio-collared wolf had broken free of the pole or tree holding the snare, but was found lying in a pool of blood.