Trapping Incident #107

Summary:

On the border of two residential developments, a licensed trapper set “bear” traps with fresh deer meat. In less than 36 hours three dogs separately left their homes, one of them, Boreal, breaking her metal chain. “Boreal’s 20-foot chain was found tangled around a tree a few yards in front of the traps. Somehow she destroyed her collar to set herself free. Maybe it was the -20 temperature or the fatigue of the struggle that sent her home. Maybe she could not longer smell the meat, now frozen. Maybe she was just lucky. The traps were already full.” Roxy and Inuk’s bodies were found in a play space for children, in a wooded area with forest trails linking between friends’ houses. The trapper has the right as a Quebec property owner and licensed trapper to put down traps, but the residents are outraged “that he laid the traps on the border of our family community not only drawing predators in but drawing our pets out and killing both wild and tame dogs.”

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