Minnesota Dog Caught in Trap

Summary:

A resident from the Mid-Gunflint Trail area contacted WTIP recently to share the details of an incident about their pet getting caught in a leg-hold trap set near Poplar Lake. The owner stated that she was walking with her dog along a remote Forest Service road that was obvious many others had hiked, biked, hunted, skied, snowmobiled and four-wheeled on recently and she heard her dog wrestling with something, crying out in pain. She backtracked up the hill to find the dog’s paw caught in a leg hold trap that was set in the grass near the road. The trap and was invisible to her as she walked by. A conversation with two Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officers revealed that her dog was the third such case to have been caught in a leg hold trap that week.

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